Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future

published May 20, 2007
Design Research Strategy Setting to Face the Future
On June 27th and 28th, 2007, the Faculty of Design and Art at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano will organize an international conference on: "Design Research: Strategy Setting to Face the Future".

This event will focus on two key issues:

- Which topics will become relevant, over the next few years, for the design profession and its role within economics and society?

- 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.