Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Kian is the Founder and President of Jo Catalunya Ara, promoting personal and social innovation. Creator of the Kianing methodology, a unique gamified approach that uses contradictions to generate innovation. Interested in AI, technology, meaningful collaborations, and projects with positive societal impact. He is an Innovation Coach and an International Multidiciplinary Concept Designer, with more than 20 years experience in Interiors also Unique Fashion. Totally passionated about Innovation, Desing Psychology & Gamification. He invented his own methodology to create innovation, totally different from design thinking. A first in Interior Architecture (Barcelona) and “Design Psychology” (UCLA), he pioneered its inclusion in commercial, haute couture and jewellery design, to yoga and personal development. Kian worked mainly in the US and Europe, for top companies like Gensler, Sony Pictures, British Airways, the British Government and Qantas Airlines. His collaborations with design schools include: University of New Delhi, University of Barcelona, American University in Dubai, MITD and DYP in Pune India. Innovation & Holistic Design Psychology - Twenty-one Year International Career in Innovation, Interior Design, Workplace Consultancy, Communication, Marketing Barcelona London Los Angeles Mexico New Delhi New York Seville Terrassa Design Strategy & Business Skills Design Psychology; personal and social innovation techniques to understand the clients' needs in order to generate holistic creative concepts, evolution, quality of life, branding and attention to detail. Management Skills Communication, interpersonal and public presentation, workshops, training, leadership, motivational, mentoring, self-development, delivery capability, thrive in team environment. Technical Skills Auto-CAD, Vector-Works, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Web-Design, Model Construction, Collage Style, Hand Drawing, Morpho-Psychology, Graphology, Writing, Numeracy
Experiential trainer - Innovation - Design As a Innovation Consultant, I help companies disrupt their traditional innovation processes. My extensive experience in the areas of Design, Design Psychology, Holistic Design and Gamification, have allowed me to developed a new methodology to develop innovation using gamification to connect with creativity and, together with Design Psychology, using contradictions to develop design solutions that are effective and achieve the goals of each project. I have worked mainly in the US and Europe, for top companies like Gensler, Sony Pictures, British Airways, the British Government and Qantas Airlines. I have collaborated with and taught in design schools such as: University of New Delhi, University of Barcelona, American University in Dubai, MITD and DYP in Pune India.
Founder & President of Jo Catalunya Ara, promoting personal and social innovation. Creator of the Kianing methodology, a unique gamified approach that uses contradictions to generate innovation. Interested in AI, technology, meaningful collaborations, and projects with positive societal impact.
Nutan Universe is a universe of experiences devised to bring art and innovation into everybody's lives. - Experiential workshops about creating fun, creativity and personal innovation experiences, enabling people to be the source of their own health and well-being. www.nutanuniverse.com - ‘Nuut Crear Xperience’ NCX: A new methodology, a recreational and entertaining, transformative process that consists of fun workshops. It is a ground-breaking product that engenders personal innovation, health and well-being for people aged 40+. It can also be tailored to other communities. ‘creativity as practicing curiosity and the ability of being surprised’ City of Terrassa Town Hall. - ‘Nuut Dress Xperience’ NDX: Unique process that expands upon Haute Couture techniques, giving the chance to design the future, using oneself as the inspiration. The processes we use for the ndx are also available as Jewellery or Interior design Xperiences, as either the ‘Nuut Jewel Xperience’ or ‘Nuut Home Xperience’.
In the Innovation and Luxury Design Course, I taught an experiential training with gamification course to Automobile Design University students.
Real estate management. Colour scheme selection for finishes of a new apartment building and creation of an innovative concept to rent the new apartments through special candidate selection to add value and confidence to the clients and owner.