Most media would like us to believe that women have taken a backseat in driving cultural, social, and economic impact. In two years, impactmania featured more than 125 female change makers in 30 countries including ambassadors; impact investors;
Initially, I found these numbers alarming. Now I look at these and am excited. These numbers also mean there will be many new opportunities. We’ll need Chief Productivity Officers, nano-medics, robot-counselors (matching people w/ robots), 3D body part makers. Apart from wealth mangers, you will also have crypto-currency managers. But also non-technology jobs such as a nostaligst: someone who recreates familiar living places for the elderly.
impactmania announced a partnership with Newton Paiva University in Brazil, October 2017. Here is the first video story about a startup that matters created in partnership with Newton Paiva. Similar to impactmania’s video story about a social enterprise, Jaipur Rugs, in [...]
AD&A Museum and UCSB’s Theater and Dance Department’s, Professor Monique Meunier, hosted Still We Rise, an artistic accumulation of Professor Rick Benjamin’s poems, scenes from Professor Risa Brainin’s Staging the Daffy Dame, and Prof. Meunier’s own choreography and music selections.
In January 2018, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara (AD&A Museum, UCSB) will partner with impactmania and launch a unique collaboration. To cement this partnership, Paksy Plackis-Cheng, impactmania’s founder, is named Senior Fellow of Research and Media.
December, 2017 PNCA’s MFA Collaborative Design and MA in Design Systems welcomed impactmania’s founder Paksy Plackis-Cheng for a conversation about design with cultural, social, and economic impact. Paksy spoke with Jody Turner, Adjunct Professor MFA Collaborative Design and collaborator on impactmania since its inception in [...]
The impactmania and Jaipur Rugs Foundation co-produced video story has been featured at the United Nations Global Compact Conference 2017.