Remix lifestyle

The concept of the Remix lifestyle came from the phrase “Think Like a DJ” from Derek Woodgate’s 2004 book Future Frequencies. The phrase itself was inspired by numerous conversations that Woodgate had with Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, the world-renowned Philosopher DJ. Remix Lifestyle reflects upon the considerable and continuing changes that humans have faced over recent decades in terms of multiple, non-coherent, yet intertwining identities; new archetypes; reconfigurable lives; upskilling and the growing, nomadic creative class. The concept embraces parallel lives and parallel universes – an unparalleled canvas of choices, a rhizomatic structure underpinned by individual values and ethics. Lifestyles are viewed as ellipsis or elliptical structures (leaving out the unnecessary or mundane) suited to “everyman’s cover story of his/her own life, built upon fracture and discontinuity.

The outcome of this remixed lifestyle is the concept of the “extended Self”, driven by digital culture, social interaction and our transformation into the era of programmable DNA when human organs can be printed and banked and transhumanism. It begs the question of what will it mean to be human? Maybe this seems far-fetched in terms of understanding attendees at a future event, yet in truth, the ongoing discussions around virtual events, data-driven attendees and the augmented personalized show experience, means that it is a futurist’s obligation to understand the desires, attitudes and behavior of future humans in order to translate the influences and represent them in the design of a “living the future” event.