With the preparation of our conference By Design and by Disaster 2025 in full swing, we’re excited to share a few beautiful and useful things. Keynotes in the track Connected Alternatives will be held by Jesko Fezer (Public Design Consultancy), and by Anna Hilber and Hannes Götsch of BASIS Vinschgau-Venosta. Milano Mediterranea will show and discuss their decolonial participatory actions in the track Social Movements, complemented by Ivan Txaparro of resonar lab and many others. In the track Open Technology the Platoniq Foundation will present and reflect their tools for digital participatory processes. Andrea Dieck of Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen will talk about organising and campaigning for transferring real estate to common ownership in the track Radical Reforms. All this will go along with 7×7 talks, 20 hands-on workshops, the presentations of 55 papers and visual essays, shared meals, dancing and whatever we make out of it together. With a lot of people from transformation-engaged study courses, on Saturday we will focus on “How to join forces and mutually support each other? Towards a union of transformation-engaged designers*, interconnected trans-local groups, and whatever it takes !-)”. → more on hope ~ reclaiming the future & the 4 tracks
The conference will take place at the free University of Bozen-Bolzano and satellite locations. It starts on Thursday, 8 May, 9:00 and ends on Saturday evening. On Wednesday, 20:00 as pre-program, we show three short movies on struggles and movements, which are powered by hope.
→ You can register here until 28 April 2025. Website with full program coming soon. In the meanwhile, stay tuned via our newsletter, blog and social media channels → FB, IG, LI, mastodon ← support the transition towards free and open social media!
For simple and inexpensive overnight stays, we are organising couch-surfing and (indoor) camping as much as we can. If you are interested, please check the boxes in the registration form (and bring your matte and sleeping bag).
Tiered 🤑 Pricing
The conference offers a structured registration fee schedule designed to accommodate a diverse range of participants. We acknowledge the varying circumstances of our attendees and have thus established a tiered pricing system to ensure accessibility. Here is a detailed breakdown of the registration fees:
Students (and others without significant income): 0 €
Phd Students (and others with precarious working conditions): 50 €
Participants in a decent income or sponsorship/institutional affiliation: 120 €
Fees for persons presenting papers or visual essays in the academic track (this includes publication in the proceedings, if the papers/essays are accepted):
Phd Students and persons without institutional affiliation: 50 €
Persons with institutional affiliation: 200 €
→ Registration open until 28 April 2025