The most powerful stories occur at points crackling with tension, such as international borders. The US-Mexico border area – the frontera – is both the world’s busiest border and a vibrant engine of international, intercultural and entrepreneurial growth, powered in part by women who, despite considerable personal risk, are forging their own futures.
On October 21-22, 2016, thought leaders, domain experts, students and storytellers will assemble in San Diego and Tijuana for Frontera: Women of the Wall, a world building summit from the USC World Building Institute, Pigeon Hole Productions, and Cali Baja, to learn how such liminal areas anywhere in the world can thrive – and what we stand to lose in an all-too-possible isolationist future.
As with previous workshops in Berlin, Bogota and Los Angeles investigating migration and global climate change, participants will apply the narrative processes of world building to address real world problems. Using a blend of the world building process pioneered by World Building Institute director, award-winning film designer and USC professor Alex McDowell RDI with gameplay from design studio Pigeon Hole Productions, participants will imagine the frontera in 2035. This collaborative process will inspire tangible, near-term action through humans’ love of story, with the event filmed and documented to bring our message to a generation of humanity on the move.
Featuring
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Trisha WilliamsChief Creative Officer, Pigeon Hole Productions
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Joseph UngerChief Design Officer, Pigeon Hole Productions
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Adriana EguiaExecutive Director / Cali-Baja Binational
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Neil Kendricks and Carlos PelayoFilm Production / Projection Mapping
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Geoffrey LongCreative Director, USC World Building Institute and World Building Media Lab
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Alex McDowell RDICreative Director, experimental.design; Professor, USC SCA; Director, World Building Media Lab, World Building Institute
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Alejandra PheltsEntrepreneur / Fine Artist
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Patty RangelTechnologist / Futurist
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Rebecca WebbCreator of ArtPower Filmatic Festival / Photographer
Special Guests
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Dawn BaileyMarine Ecologist / Founder / EcoSea Expeditions
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Ann BerchtoldIndependent Curator / Open Walls Project
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Monica BerrondoFounder and Scientist / Macromoltek
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Anthony BurchGame Industry Writer / Rocket Jump Studios
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Christian BusicChief Creative Officer / Oddly Even Studios
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Nao BustamanteVisual Artist / Professor
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Brenda ChavezFounder / D’Paseito Por El Mundo
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Katie CowperFounder / Hub and Spoke Cycleworks
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Megan DaalderFilmaker / Future Scouts
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Saul De los SantosFounder / CEO / AXIS – Strategic Intelligence Center
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Juan DiazBEuropean Director World Building Institute; Creative Director Kosmology; Director, Writer, Narrative Designer
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Lucy EaglesonProgram Manager / Outside the Lens
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Fernando GaxiolaFounder and CEO / Baja Wine and Food
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Dr. Yana GepshteinNurse Practitioner / Entrepreneur
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Allison Evelyn GowerFounder / Allison Evelyn, Inc.
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Olivia HernandezChef / Hernandez Hospitality
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Dr. Emily HowardSenior Engineering Scientist / Boeing
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Jorge IzquierdoTransportation Futurist / Consulta ONE
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Marcie JastrowHead of Business Development / Technicolor
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Laura JohnsonFounder / Your & Yours Distillery
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BH KimChief Executive Officer / Impact Without Borders
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Nicole LeDouxEntrepreneur / Postmates
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Dr. Jorge Francisco Sánchez LópezProfessor / CETYS Universidad
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Mary LydonUrban Development / Lydon Associates
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Karla MacedoEntrepreneur / Binational Visionary
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Alayna MagnanFounder / Tattoo Artist / Rabble Rouser Tattoo
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David MalmuthFounder / I.D.E.A. District
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Hillary ManalacChief Executive Officer / La Vie En Public Relations
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Ava MasonExecutive Director / TreoBytes
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David McConvilleBuckminster Fuller Institute / Obscura Digital
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Adrian MelendezFounder of Project Habasha / Humanitarian
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Karla NavarroCulinary Entrepreneur
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Luis PenaCulinary Arts / Bracero / Romesco
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Donn Angel PerezArchitect / Artist
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Carolyn RodzFounder / CEO / Circular Board Accelerator
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Ryan SaucermanFounder and CTO / Explore That Store
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Lorena SantanaProfessor / CETYS Universidad
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Kamal SinclairDirector / Sundance New Frontier
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Cat TraenSculptor / Fine Artist / Instructor
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J.M. Woody Van HornOpening General Manager / Bracero Cocina
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Oscar ZermeñoWeb Designer / Habesha Project