The value of thinking differently in business.
Applied Humanities
At a time of profound transformation in the world of work, the humanities are reemerging as an ethical, creative, and strategic compass.
We are facing a paradigm shift that requires more than just new technologies or management frameworks: it requires judgment, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.
Sharing knowledge becomes key to building a more conscious, sustainable, and meaningful future for work.
For this reason, we are launching this series of dialogues and meetings together with Pompeu Fabra University, with the participation of multidisciplinary experts and academics, to create an unusual meeting space between the business world, academia, and the humanities.
This series of three face-to-face meetings proposes a lively dialogue between humanistic thought and professional practice, connecting two fields that rarely converse, but which today are needed more than ever.
Designing digital products involves making decisions that go far beyond technology, data, or product frameworks. This meeting proposes a reflection on how cultural context, human understanding, and judgment influence the decisions made throughout the entire life cycle of a digital product.
An open conversation about how digital products are conceived, researched, designed, and distributed when perspectives from the humanities are incorporated, and what happens when these perspectives are left out of the process.
Format: Round table + networking
Location: Ciutadella Campus (UPF) / Multipurpose Room in the Mercè Rodoreda Building
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Limited capacity.
What does it mean to design artificial intelligence with human criteria? This meeting offers an initial approach to the intersection between the humanities and AI, exploring how disciplines such as philosophy, history, ethics, and literature can provide context and meaning to technologies that already influence our everyday decisions.
A space to raise questions about autonomy, responsibility, and technological culture in an era governed by algorithms.
What happens when talent is no longer defined solely by what we know how to do, but by how we think, interpret, and make sense of complexity? This meeting offers a space for reflection on the value of the humanities in the development of talent and organizational culture.
An invitation to rethink the role of humanistic thinking in the contemporary professional world, beyond traditional techniques and skills.
"The important thing is not to stay alive, but to stay human" - George Orwell.
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"The important thing is not to stay alive, but to stay human" - George Orwell. 〰️
Applied Humanities is an initiative co-created by
