On Monday, June 20, we welcomed 5 new faces to join IFTF for a six week summer intern program.

Left to right: Nicolas, Dan, Zach, Melissanthi & Joe

This year’s program continues the great work Matt Chwierut began last year, in designing and running IFTF’s first formal summer internship. Our group for 2011 come from a really diverse range of disciples with industrial design, interaction design, neuroscience, anthropology, programming, documentary film, graphic design and urban planning all represented on the team. 

Over the next 6 weeks, the main focus for the interns will be a project to take our Future of California work as their theme, and work as a team to produce a design for a participatory process to engage wider audiences in this content. Along the way they’ll also be getting a crash course on futures thinking, hearing from various IFTF researchers and outside speakers, and getting involved in some of our research projects. 

Throughout their time with us they’ll be blogging regularly about their experiences, so watch this space for more on what they’ll be getting up to. We’re excited to have such a great group with us over the next six weeks, and looking forward to learning as much from them as they will from us!