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21 March 23

Design conference: Fit for the Future with Design

An international workshop to explore design approaches for promoting future-oriented, sustainable developments and possibilities and to use them in a constructive, empowering and transformative sense.

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Design is more than nice chairs! How can design approaches inspire and facilitate future-oriented governance and management practices? Eurac Research's Center for Advanced Studies and the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen – Bolzano recently invited to the workshop "Fit for the Future with Design". Striving for the critical appraisal of design-based approaches – from product and graphic design to communication, interaction, and social design – the international conference focused on the possible applications of design in governance and management to initiate future-oriented and sustainable developments.

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Left to right in the picture: Harald Pechlaner, Sabine Junginger, Andreas Metzner-Szigeth, Roberto Verganti, Alexander Mankowsky, Philippe Vandenbroeck, Jennifer Schubert, Joe Ravetz, Ingrid Kofler, Greta Erschbamer and Sonia Matos© unibz/Eurac Research
Roberta Bottarin giving the opening remarks© unibz/Eurac Research
The welcoming address by Günther Mathà© unibz
Joe Ravetz, Ingrid Kofler and Sabine Junginger© unibz/Eurac Research
Marc Röggla, Harald Pechlaner and Roland Benedikter© unibz/Eurac Research
Jennifer Schubert, Sonia Matos and Philippe Vandenbroeck© unibz/Eurac Research
Alexander Mankowsky, Greta Erschbamer and Roberto Verganti© unibz/Eurac Research

After the welcoming addresses by Günther Mathà, Director of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Roberta Bottarin, Vice-Director of Eurac Research, renowned researchers from the fields of design, management and governance joined in the discussions, namely: Andreas Metzner-Szigeth (Faculty of Design and Art, unibz), Sabine Junginger (University of Applied Sciences, Luzern), Joe Ravetz (University of Manchester), Ingrid Kofler (Faculty of Design and Art, unibz), Roland Benedikter (Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research), Marc Röggla (Center for Autonomy Experiences, Eurac Research), Harald Pechlaner (Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research), Philippe Vandenbroeck (Board Member, International Futures Forum, affiliate with shiftN and ETH Zürich), Sonia Matos (Faculty of Design and Art, unibz), Jennifer Schubert (University of Applied Sciences Augsburg), Roberto Verganti (The Garden – Center for Design and Leadership, Stockholm School of Economics), Alexander Mankowsky (Futures Studies & Ideation, Mercedes-Benz AG, Berlin), Greta Erschbamer (Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research).

The design student Delilah Angel Friedmann documented the entire conference as a graphic recording.

Graphic recording - Day 1

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Andreas Metzner-Szigeth: On Sustainable Futures, Generative Competences, and the Nexus of Governance, Management and Design© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Sabine Junginger: Design in Government: Basics, Current Practices, and Future Outlook© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Joe Ravetz: Visual Imagineering: Graphic Mind-games for Exploring the 'Collective Climatic Intelligence'© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Ingrid Kofler: Social Participation and Transformation within Real-World Laboratories© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Marc Röggla: Power-Sharing: An Institutional Design for Deeply Divided Societies© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Roland Benedikter: Designing Futures Literacy© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman

Graphic recording - Day 2

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Harald Pechlaner: Design Strategy versus Strategy Design: Perspectives of Leadership© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Sonia Matos: Lessons from the Field: Brief Notes on Design, Eco-Social Transformation, and Interdisciplinary Research© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Philippe Vandenbroeck: Embracing the Ontological Turn: Moving from Design to 'Nesting'© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Roberto Verganti: We Design for Our Better Selves. How Design Is Changing in the Face of Systemic Changes, and Why It Can Support the New Demand for Leadership© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Jennifer Schubert: Experimental Participation Strategies for Enriching Formalized Policy Structures© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Greta Erschbamer: Design Approaches to Develop Touristic Destinations© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman
Alexander Mankowsky: Making Use of “Ideation” - for Addressing Multiple Crises, and for Elaboration Entrepreneurial Strategies© Eurac Research/unibz - Delilah Angel Friedman

Interview with Sabine Junginger: Design dares to ask dumb questions

Sabine Junginger, Professor of Design and Management at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, discusses design in public administration, why it's essential to ask stupid questions, and her "abnormal" CV. She recently spoke at the workshop "Fit for the Future with Design" hosted by the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research and the Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bolzano.
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