NEXT DESIGN PERSPECTIVES 2022

Triennale di Milano, October 27, 2022

Third Edition of NEXT DESIGN PERSPECTIVES, curated by Beatrice Leanza.

THE PROGRAM
1. Design and the Scientific Imagination: Natural, Human and Machine Intelligence
Exploring the expanding web of relations between the world of scientific research and design, and how human, natural and machine intelligence inform design strategies that can create a more wholesome, resonant interconnection between humans and the world, to help us face the radical changes that characterize our era.

Lonneke Gordijn | Artist and co-founder of the DRIFT STUDIO
Quayola | Artist

2. Collective Intelligence: New horizons in Design Collaborations
We take a look at the core tenets of collaboration in the world of innovations, crafting a balance between technology-driven and biophilic methodologies of creation and exploring alternative materials or bio-algorithms, showing what it now means to practice “sustainable” design. From material engineering, to building automated living scapes or regenerative solutions on a systemic scale, at a terrestrial or ultra-planetary level, these practitioners bear witness to radical collaborations across industries and forms of knowledge and storytelling, plugging us into a future-present of wonder, hope and concrete potential.

Brendan McGetrick | Creative Director, Museum of the Future, Dubai
Erez Nevi Pana | Founder of the Erez Nevi Pana studio
Alfredo Munoz | Founder of ABIBOO and FutuverseTM
Claudia Pasquero | Co-founder of ecoLogicStudio
Moderator: Aric Chen | General and Artistic Director of Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

3. Design Thinking in Action – IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
Here we dive into an expanded sense of building with the environment, creating strategies in which new alliances among stakeholders - creatives, companies, governments and communities - can be formed to work towards an equitable, sustainable future, for an other-than-human world. The panel discussion presented in collaboration with the pioneering Ellen MacArthur Foundation reports on case studies and stories on change in the field of food systems and food design, where sustainability and circularity have become central to action, research and development strategies, from production to education and cultural activism.

Gaëlle Le Gélard | Design manager at The Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Jon Gray | Co-Founder of Ghetto Gastro
Matteo Vignoli | Founder of the Future Food Institute
Moderator: Spencer Bailey | Co-founder of The Slowdown