Workshops
Workshop: Open Standards & Services
Academic Design Network Austria
MON 9.9. | 13:45 – 14:45 The afternoon workshop will give an overview to Open Standards and Services and how designers can benefit and contribute when making their toolchain choice.
Designing the Futures We (Do Not) Want: Speculative Design Lab
Academic Design Network Austria
SAT 7.9. | 13:45 – 16:45 The burning questions identified in the morning session will form the starting point for developing utopian and dystopian scenarios to address challenges and opportunities of the future.
Ars Electronica Art Thinking School / Future Innovators Summit
The Ars Electronica Art Thinking School is a new Festival program consisting of special guided tours, lectures, talks, workshops and actions to get inspired for inventing a better future by connecting creators, industries, governments, and citizens. Future Innovators Summit (FIS) is a comprehensive workshop format within the Ars Electronica Art Thinking School program.
Designing the Commons
Academic Design Network Austria
MON 9.9. | 10:00 – 13:00 Day 4 offers an additional workshop on the responsibility of design to support collaboration cultures. We will be sharing best practices and will have a closer look at two application fields.The morning session will be focusing on Creative Commons and its impact on the sharing culture. We try to extend its concept for brands with a Label Commons Public License and investigate the #fairmove use case.
The Messy Shape of Problems – Workshop: Approaching Complexity
Academic Design Network Austria
SUN 8.9. | 13:45 – 16:45 Design can be understood as the production of material discourse. Applying the method of mapping, we will trance the interconnectedness of objects thereby trying to untangle complexity.
Fluid Format Creation – Implications for design research and teaching
Academic Design Network Austria
SUN 8.9. | 10:00 – 13:00 The third day will focus on the implications of previous discussions for research and teaching in the field of design. How do we convey the skills and knowledge necessary to deal with the rising complexity of contemporary challenges.
Fishbowl Discussion: The Future of Design – Transitions in the field
Academic Design Network Austria
SAT 7.9. | 10:00 – 13:00 How do technological advances (e.g. machine learning) transform working modes, task areas and perspectives in the field of design? In the course of discussion we will try to identify a number of burning questions for the future of design.Together we will desicuss the major challenges contemporary societies have to face, which necessitate design as an interdisciplinary field.
Exploring Processes and Solutions: Asking relevant questions – Finding appropriate methods
Academic Design Network Austria
FRI 6.9. | 13:45 – 16:45 This workshop discusses past and recent design projects (also the ones collected in the morning session) to identify relevant questions, problem-adequate methods, fruitful processes and outstanding solutions.
Impulse Talks + Academic Speed Dating: Approaches to Design
Academic Design Network Austria
FRI 6.9. | 10:00 – 13:00 In reference to the students’ and other design projects, representatives of the participating universities will outline their approaches to the field of design in brief statements. In the course of the session participants and members of the audience can contribute design projects they find outstanding.
The Messy Shape of Problems – Past, Present and Future Perspectives of Design
Academic Design Network Austria
Designers have to face an increasingly complex field of global challenges necessitating great sensitivity for relevant questions, adequate approaches and tools to develop sustainable solutions. How can design education convey the required skills and perspectives to cope with this dramatic rise in complexity? And how do technological advances shape the future of design?
