10 years of Eco-Social Design* and now? BASIS Vinschgau Venosta (South Tyrol, Italy) 21 – 23 May 2026 Join the Constellation Following our call for papers and visual essays, the By Design and by Disaster team is excited to open the floor for hands-on workshops. Since 2013, this conference has served as a platform for connecting …
DDcon26: Call for abstracts extended to 15 Feb 2026
Call for papers and visual essays 10 years of Eco-Social Design* and now? Submission of abstracts extended to 15 Feb 2026 ↘︎ all dates below With the academic year 2015-16, the Master in Eco-Social Design started at the Free University of Bolzano. This beginning occurred after a bumpy yet enriching course of preparations that included …
10 years of Eco-Social Design* and now?
Call for papers and visual essays → abstract submission open until 1 February 2026Call for workshops → submission open until 28 February 2026 With the academic year 2015-16, the Master in Eco-Social Design started at the Free University of Bolzano. This beginning occurred after a bumpy yet enriching course of preparations that included the first …
Postgraduate researcher grant: Eco-Social Design on time and care in the 15-minute City
The project SPATIOTEMPO explores how urban life is shaped not only by spatial factors but also by temporal ones. Within the projects’ transdisciplinary and transformative research and design approach, the key activities of unibz are co-design processes and co-creation of spatio-temporal scenarios that consider spatial and temporal aspects in the 15-minute City (15mC) and time-offices, …
Eco-Social Design 👁🗨 End-of Semester Show
Faculty of Design & Art, Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, 4th floor of the F & C buildings (F4 & C4) and BITZ unibz fablab – Via A. Rosmini 9 Friday, 23.1., 18:00–22:00, Opening Saturday, 24.1., 11:00–17:00 We invite you to perceive and discuss the works of the Master in Eco-Social Design and to celebrate this …
Viaggiamo insieme: Buon lavoro ↻ gutes Klima
un momento di confronto dedicato al legame tra crisi climatica, mobilità sostenibile e qualità del lavoro ↻ eine Diskussionsrunde zum Thema Klimagerechtigkeit, nachhaltige Mobilität und Arbeitsqualität.Mercoledì/Mittwoch, 21/01/2026, 16:00–18:00, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, F0.01 In Alto Adige, il settore del trasporto rappresenta, con oltre il 40% delle emissioni, la principale fonte di gas climalteranti. La mobilità …
Let’s talk about Heat(islands)!
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS Did you or someone you know ever experience extreme heat in Bozen–Bolzano, especially in public spaces across the city? Even though Bozen-Bolzano is located in a beautiful mountain valley, it is ranked among the hottest cities in Europe during summer and has experienced an average annual temperature increase of +2.2 °C …
Common Good & Economy: Examples from South Tyrol
17 December, 18.00–19.30 | Unibz A1.01 Climate Action South Tyrol and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano’s Competence Centre for Sustainability will host an evening event examining practical and theoretical approaches to alternative economic models, with a focus on concrete South Tyrolean examples. Dr. Elisabeth Gsottbauer, environmental economist and head of the Sustainability Competence Centre, will …
Material Talks: Biomaterial Futures
Join us for two Material Talks on creating a more sustainable and creative material future using materials sourced from renewable resources, waste streams, and by-products. We are pleased to invite you to the following open talks both taking place at BITZ unibz fablab in Bolzano. Marvelous Materials> Tuesday, December 16th from 5 PM Greta Isola …
Teaching Position ‘Emancipatory Digital Transformation’ in Eco-Social Design
For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced design practitioner with a focus on ‘Emancipatory Digital Transformation’. Here is the call. Application deadline: 01-12-2025 at 12:00 (CET). If you have questions about the application procedure, please send an email to Recruitment Design. The course takes place in the summer semester 2025/26; (the contract can …
Hopeful Design Union
Over the past 15 years, several practice-oriented degree programmes focusing on socio-ecological transformation have been established (Eco-Social Design, Transformation Design, Social Design, Transformation Studies, Social Design or similar study courses, including likewise engaged programs coming from art or architecture). In these overwhelming times of crisis, conflict and collapse, students and alumni want to join forces …
Sat, 4/10: Upcycling Convention 2025
Saturday, 4 October 2025: Join us at this year’s Upcycling Convention with Inspiring Talks, Workshops, Market, Music, and Food. The Upcycling Convention (UpCon) is back for its fourth edition at REX – Material und Dinge in Bressanone, inviting the public to a day of talks, workshops, markets, music, and food. Running from 10 am to …
In how many ways can we play in our cities?
We are pleased to invite you to two initiatives related to the themes of play and cities: a participatory exhibition and an international symposium. Both events will be held on Thursday, 11 September, at unibz, Bolzano campus – in Green Island, on the ground floor, accessible from the main entrance on Piazza Università. Giochi-amo così …
15.12. Liberation from work or liberation of work? Small is Beautiful ~ Klein ist Fein
15.12.2025 Letzte Veranstaltung der Reihe last event of the series Befreiung von der Arbeit oder Befreiung der Arbeit? Kleine Arbeit ist feine Arbeit? Ist gute Arbeit schon der halbe Lohn? Wie kann kleine Arbeit erleichtert und gefördert werden? Es kommen Menschen zu Wort, die Beispiel geben für eine befriedigende und erfüllende Arbeit in kleiner Dimension. …
Zoe Romano: Rewiring the post-reproductive sensorium
Tuesday, 8th July 2025, 10-11:00 AM, unibz Bolzano Campus, room C4.06 An introduction to the practice based research intervention on aging through collective sense-making run by OBOT (Our Bodies Our Tech) collective, a distributed network and a nomadic wet-lab working on ways to lower the barriers to research, production and scientific knowledge through new forms to …
Exhibition: German Ecodesign Award Exhibition 2025
Explore innovative, sustainable designs at the German Ecodesign Award exhibition at NOI Techpark Bolzano from 19.6.–19.7.2025. Discover visionary concepts and market-ready solutions for a sustainable future. The traveling exhibition of the German Ecodesign Award is on display at NOI Techpark Bolzano, showcasing all nominated and award-winning projects. Curated in cooperation with the Faculty of Design …
Playground: Designing Visions of Play in a More-Than-Human World
From the outset, this project asks how playgrounds might provide an opportunity to bring biodiversity to urban environments. Urbanization and related phenomena, such as changes in land use, the subsequent fragmentation of natural habitats and the degradation of ecosystems more generally, severely threaten biological diversity in urban environments. At the same time, lack of human …
Screening: The Making Of
Did you know that at least 172 hands touch your garment during the industrial manufacturing process? All clothes are handmade. With factory visits, guest workshops and open talks we stepped into the world of textiles involving fibers, yarns, fabrics, patterns, printing, sewing, repairing, reuse and their afterlife. Join the (material) movie night and see what …
Exhibition: HOPE ~ 11 projects reclaiming the future now!
Master in Eco-Social Design Friday, 13 June 2025, 18:00–22:00 Saturday, 14 June 2025, 11:00–17:00 Faculty of Design and Art, F & C building, 4th floor In times with no reason for optimism, 11 projects »start […] not from fear and enclosure, but from hope and overflowing.« (John Holloway). They are engaging for humble changes within a ~ hopefully …
Cross-Mythologies and The Anthropocene
Mesopotamia and Greek Mythos – Interdisciplinary Exploration through Performance, Space, and Poetics Blended Erasmus Workshop: Batman University (Batman/Turkiye), Thesally University (Volos/Greece), Bozen – Bolzano Free University (Bolzano/Italy) Summer Semester 25/26 This training course brings together scholars from diverse disciplines such as anthropology, architecture, literature, and cultural studies around one common theme: humanity’s connection to nature. …
Teaching Position: ‘Communication-Interaction-Services’ in Eco-Social Design
For the MA Eco-Social Design we are looking for an experienced design practitioner with a focus on ‘Communication-Interaction-Services’ co-leading the ‘Project 2’ in Eco-Social Design. Here is the call. Application deadline: 05-05-2025 at 12:00 (CET). If you have questions about the application procedure please send an email to Recruitment Design. Project 2 takes place in the summer …
Registration Extended to 29 April ~ By Design and by Disaster 2025
→ Registration extended to 29 April, 12:00 noon CEST The By Design and by Disaster Conference 2025 explores hope not as naive optimism, but as a collective and empowering practice. In the face of ecological collapse, social injustice, and political crises, we ask: how can we reclaim the future through design and art in Social …
10, 13, 17 Feb. Workshop: Patti chiari, amicizia lunga – Collaborative living in Bolzano
During the month of February, the Patti Chiari, Amicizia Lunga workshop series will bring students, property owners, and citizens together to explore home-sharing as a collaborative housing solution. Within the framework of the Eco-Social Design master thesis of Gaia D’Inzeo, and the collaboration with the student association MUA, the Patti Chiari, Amicizia Lunga workshop series explores the concept of Home-sharing with …
Exhibition: HOPE – 24 thesis projects in progress
In the third semester, students of the Master’s programme in Eco-Social Design develop the conceptual, theoretical and practical foundations for their final theses. You are warmly invited to engage with them in the final semester exhibition of the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Get insights into research and experiments. …
28.1.-7.2. Exhibition: VAL DI TORBA – peat extraction in Salurn
From January 28th to February 7th, the public library in Salurn will host an exhibition on peat extraction in South Tyrol. After some parts of this exhibition were previously shown in Bolzano, it now invites visitors to add their perspectives! As part of the Eco-Social Design master thesis by Laisa Cordes, the exhibition offers insight …