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Check out how to approach the conference venue (Via Antonio Gramsci 53, 00197 Roma) from Piazzale Flaminio (Metro station & Piazza del Popolo), through a 15 minute walk across the park.
CALLS open until 15 AUGUST! Track: DESIGN FOR NEXT THINKING
This track invites you to explore, debate and leverage our understanding of design and designing for next thinking. The term "next" can be grounded in future/present, as well as past endeavours and ideas, and "thinking" refers to fundamental thinking and reflections in design and designing that may encompass also groups and collaborative action. We wish to invite contributions from many kinds of practice based and philosophical viewpoints as well as addressing and reflecting on thinking practices. This track aims to open a debate on the role also of intangibles and thinking activities in the next design scenarios. What will be the role of new or "other" original thinking in a design process? How to educate innovative as well as solid and coherent thinking for designing products, services and systems? The overall goal is to stimulate an improved discussion on the relationship between design and thinking focusing on some experiences and new future challenges.
The track on Design for Next Thinking will be chaired by Martyn Evans, Birgit Helene Jevnaker and Pier Paolo Peruccio. Submit the proposal of your paper, poster or workshop for this track, or for any of the 9 tracks at designfornext.org!
Technology track - Design for Next conference
CALLS open until 15 AUGUST! Track: DESIGN FOR NEXT TECHNOLOGY
One of the main roles of design research and practice has been to humanize technology, translating it into products or services usable by humans. Digital technology and cultures have enabled design to include less material aspects within its field of action. Digital transformation is changing our world and design is one of the main drivers. This track will explore how next technology scenarios will change design research and practice; to understand how tools, methods and the purposes of design will evolve; and which opportunities will develop for creating new bridges across different trends of technological advancements, and with arts, sciences and society.
The track on Design for Next Technology will be chaired by Paul Atkinson, Salvatore Iaconesi and Giuseppe Mincolelli. Submit the proposal of your paper, poster or workshop for this track, or for any of the 9 tracks at designfornext.org!
Wolfgang Jonas - thoughts on Design for Next Society
What's next in design for the society? Thoughts from Wolfgang Jonas, one of the chairs of the Design for Next Society conference track:
Society track - Design for Next
CALLS open until 15 AUGUST! Track: DESIGN FOR NEXT SOCIETY
We live in a time of accelerated change, where innovation forces exceed any existing mental, logical and organizational frames. We explore new territories for the organization of societies, economy and transformation of production and consumption patterns. New initiatives are emerging, that are activating citizens, generating new directions for social innovation and developing services that support such change. This track invites submissions on design thinking in participatory and systemic perspectives that reflect how the combination of technology, design and new forms of social organization are activating new mechanisms of sharing knowledge and experiences, defending well-tried commons.
The track on Design for Next Society will be chaired by Wolfgang Jonas, Nicola Morelli and Maria Antonietta Sbordone. Submit the proposal of your paper, poster or workshop for this track, or for any of the 9 tracks at designfornext.org!
Industry track - Design for Next
CALLS open until 15 AUGUST! Track: DESIGN FOR NEXT INDUSTRY
The so-called Industry 4.0 observation produces interference effects that go from manufacturable to digital, from B2B Business To Business (the factory) to B2C Business To Consumer (the market). Consequences of this new industry influence tools and processes of equipment production and of manufacturing networks. Influences are also seen in individual and city life, and in manmade environments. Design has a wide action area referring to industrial equipment (the Internet of Things), cloud services and learning artificial intelligence exploitation (the Internet of Behaviours).
The track on Design for Next Industry will be chaired by Flaviano Celaschi, Christoph Holliger and Roberto Iniguez Flores. Submit the proposal of your paper, poster or workshop for this track, or for any of the 9 tracks at designfornext.org!
Design for Next Health conference track
CALLS open until 15 AUGUST! Track: DESIGN FOR NEXT HEALTH
Health is our greatest good. While the relationship between the health of humans and our planet is becoming more interrelated, our health system is facing increasing complexity. Emerging technologies empower people to become protagonists of their own health for better life, improving the importance of well-designed environments, products, services, processes and policies. From hacking and making and from networks to domestic landscapes, the track seeks to encourage fundamental debates and trans-disciplinary studies, and to renew approaches, tools, and visions from the future.
The track on Design for Next Health will be chaired by Medardo Chiapponi, Raffaella Fagnoni, Hans Kaspar Hugentobler and Francesca Tosi. Submit the proposal of your paper, poster or workshop for this track, or for any of the 9 tracks at designfornext.org!
Environment track - Design for Next conference
CALLS open until 15 AUGUST! Track: DESIGN FOR NEXT ENVIRONMENT
The complexity of sustainability issues (environmental, social and cultural) can not be fully described by rules and universally valid numeric parameters. In this scenario characterized by partial vagueness in design, the correct communication of sustainability content plays an important role in the stimulation of good behaviours and in giving meaning to things. The track investigates the next future evolution of the relationship between Design and Sustainability as well as the tools, questions, approaches and methods that will allow us to combine more wisely complexity, simplicity, meaningfulness and effectiveness, along with the design processes.
The track on Design for Next Environment will be chaired by Laura Badalucco, Olivier Hirt and Giuseppe Lotti . Submit the proposal of your paper, poster or workshop for this track, or for any of the 9 tracks at designfornext.org!
Carola Zwick - Whats next in education
What's next in design education? Thoughts from Carola Zwick, one of the chairs of the Design for Next Education conference track
