The Future of Wellbeing

Date
2022
Location
Munich
Event
DLD Conference 2022
Keywords
Wellbeing Culture Forum
Wellbeing
Neuroscience
Ancestral knowledge
With
Jeanne de Kroon
Moran Cerf
Nina Gualinga
Sumayya Vally

Leading wellbeing provider Therme Group, in collaboration with Therme Art, partnered with global conference network DLD – Digital Life Design to present a Wellbeing Culture Forum talk on May 22 at DLD22 in Munich. Titled The Future of Wellbeing, the panel fell in line with this year’s DLD conference motto “Reality Rules!?” and invited experts across fields to assess poignant technological, economic, societal and ecological shifts present on a global scale.

Panellists included Social Entrepreneur Jeanne de Kroon, facilitating links between communities and businesses worldwide, Neuroscientist and Business Professor Moran Cerf, employing neuroscience methods in his research of human psychology, Climate Activist and Indigenous Rights Defender Nina Gualinga, endeavouring to reinstate indigenous knowledge into contemporary educational curricula, and Founder and Principal Architect of Counterspace Sumayya Vally, utilising her practice as a vehicle to creating spaces which are conducive to community engagement and belonging.

Drawing on the nuances present between contemporary scientific–medicinal advancements, architecture as a vehicle for healing, and indigenous forms of knowledge that teach our undeniable interdependence with the natural world, The Future of Wellbeing invited experts to assess the interconnectedness in our planet and our people’s levels of wellbeing and discuss how we must continue to endeavour in our areas of expertise in order to reinstate substantive and egalitarian wellbeing in our future cities.

Therme Group is proud to have partnered with DLD to bring together visionaries from around the globe who are eager to change the world in an increasingly digital era through an interdisciplinary platform for exchange. Speakers previously featured at DLD include Zaha Hadid, Ursula von der Leyen, Mark Zuckerberg and Christiana Figueres.

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Jeanne de Kroon

Creative Director and Founder of Zazi Vintage

Moran Cerf

Neuroscientist and Business Professor

Nina Gualinga

Indigenous rights activist from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku

Sumayya Vally

Sumayya Vally is a South African architect and the founder and principal of the architecture and research firm, Counterspace. She is known for her work that explores hybrid identities and contested territories, and she became the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion in 2020/2021. She is also the Artistic Director of the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale.

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