Concept

Beatrice Leanza

Curator of next design perspectives 2021|2022

‘Design in Flux’
pays tribute to future-driven forms of design intelligence founded on intellectual crosspollination exploring a radically expanded world of cognition, sensation, interconnectedness, that voyages from the scale of the molecular to the ultra-planetary.

By Beatrice Leanza / Curator of next design perspectives 2021|2022

» The 2022 conference tackles the role of design at large in confronting a new idea of planetaryco-existence, showing how innovation and cross-sectorial research lead the development of new systems of care, social and environmental balance, and thus enhance the human potential to alleviate the distress posed by anthropogenic actions and its engendered extreme conditions.

» The conversations and experiences brought to stage traverse various scales of design’s capacity to transform systemic relations between man and world, which are foundational in today’s widening scope of research and collaboration across creative disciplines, scientific studies and industrial innovation voted to environmental reparation and the construction of equitable futures.

Speakers

28 OCT

5:20 PM

LISA WHITE

CREATIVE DIRECTOR, WGSN

A TREND FORECASTER AND FUTURE THINKER WITH OVER 25 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, LISA WHITE IS AN EXPERT IN DESIGN AND LIFESTYLE TRENDS. LISA WAS HEAD CURATOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL DESIGN BIENNALE OF SAINT-éTIENNE IN 2019.

28 OCT

5:40 PM

EMANUELE COCCIA

PHILOSOPHER AND WRITER

EMANUELE COCCIA IS MAÎTRE DE CONFÉRENCE AT THE ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES IN PARIS. HE IS SPECIALIZED IN AVERROES AND MEDIEVAL AND MODERN AVERROISM. HE HAS RECENTLY BEEN WORKING ON THE METAPHYSICS OF PLANT LIFE AND THE LIFE OF OBJECTS.

28 OCT

5:40 PM

BRENDAN CORMIER

SENIOR CURATOR OF EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON.

HE HAS CURATED SEVERAL MAJOR EXHIBITIONS, INCLUDING CARS: ACCELERATING THE MODERN WORLD AT THE V&A, A WORLD OF FRAGILE PARTS AT THE 2016 VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE, AND VALUES OF DESIGN AT DESIGN SOCIETY IN SHENZHEN, CHINA.

28 OCT

6:20 PM

YVES BéHAR

FOUNDER AND CEO, FUSEPROJECT

DESIGNER AND ENTREPRENEUR, HE IS THE ONLY DESIGNER TO HAVE RECEIVED THE INDEX AWARD TWICE FOR THE ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD AND SEE BETTER TO LEARN BETTE PROJECTS, WHICH HAS DISTRIBUTED 6 MILLION FREE CORRECTIVE EYEGLASSES TO SCHOOLCHILDREN IN MEXICO FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS.

28 OCT

FROM 5:00 TO 7:00 PM CET

BEATRICE LEANZA

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MUSEUM OF ART ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY (MAAT), LISBON.

PREVIOUSLY SHE WAS THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF BEIJING DESIGN WEEK AND CO-FOUNDED THE GLOBAL SCHOOL, THE FIRST INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE FOR DESIGN AND CREATIVE RESEARCH ESTABLISHED IN THE PRC.