International conference at the Faculty of Design and Art:
“Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future”

On June 27 and 28, 2007, the Faculty of Design and Art at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano will organise an international conference on: “Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future”.

This event will focus on two key issues:

1. Which topics will become relevant, over the next few years, for the design profession and its role within economics and society?
2. Which are the most appropriated working methods, research approaches and professional attitudes for dealing successfully with the challenges those future design topics are implying?
   

On their own designers do not have answers to these questions. As their work influences various public and private sectors of both industrial and cultural life, they need constant feedback and commentary, forecasts and suggestions from these sectors. Only then does that catalyst of understanding emerge that safeguards the relevance of designer creativity, also in a larger context greater than any single design.

“Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future” will give the opportunity to discover, reflect and evaluate crucial challenges of our present times and to get new insights about future topics, orientations and co-operations.

In order to do this, the Faculty of Design and Art at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano has invited 12 international speakers who are covering four key subject areas: society (Aldo Bonomi, Aditya Dev Sood, Amy Franceschini), economics (Antonio Calabrò, Gianfranco Dioguardi, Alessandro Guerriero), design practice (Ruedi Baur, Biagio Cisotti, Lars Müller), interdisciplinarity (Stefano Boeri, Francesco Jodice, Guta Moura Guedes).

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Further information about speakers, topics, time schedules, registration fees etc. are available at www.unibz.it/designresearch or directly from:

Marlies Andergassen-Sölva
Faculty of Design and Art
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Via Sernesistraße 1
39100 Bozen/Bolzano (Italy)
t: 0471-015.006
f: 0471-015.009
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