RECLAIMING
HOPE
18—19 SEP
NOVA GORICA, SLO
Navigate (un)certainty,
imagine better futures
a multifaceted event exploring how design can engage with uncertainty and shape more just, resilient, and imaginative futures—particularly in response to local and regional challenges.
The program begins with a two-day symposium (September 18+19), featuring two keynote lectures, eight invited presentations, and four panel discussions. Alongside formal sessions, the symposium will include informal gatherings such as Chat the Future coffee conversations and a Futures Garden workshop hosted by the EU Policy Lab. These sessions will offer a platform to critically examine design's role in shaping future urban systems, processes, and imaginaries. The symposium will be followed by the Design+Science Summer School (September 20–22), an intensive workshop for students and emerging practitioners.
The event is curated by Ivica Mitrović and organised by The Centre for Creativity (Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana), in collaboration with international partners. Both the symposium and the summer school are part of the program of the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025 Nova Gorica.
Participation in the symposium is free of charge, with prior registration required.
SYMPOSIUM
18+19 SEP
GUESTS
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Enzio Manzini
Ezio Manzini’s work centers on design for social innovation as a driving force for a just and ecological transition. From this perspective, he founded DESIS: an international network of design schools engaged in these issues…
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Lodovica Guarnieri
Lodovica Guarnieri is a designer, researcher, and educator whose work explores the entanglements between ecology and modern infrastructures. Her practice interrogates technoscience in relation to the toxic afterlives…
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Ákos Schneider
Ákos Schneider is a design culture researcher and an assistant professor at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). He earned his PhD from MOME’s Doctoral School in 2022. The same year, he published his book The Limits of Human-Centered Design…
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David Martens
David Martens (he/him) is a designer and maker currently working as a policy analyst at the EU Policy Lab within the Joint Research Centre. His work investigates how creative practices can open space for experimentation, emotion, and storytelling…
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Guillem Camprodon
Guillem Camprodon (he/him) is a designer and technologist exploring how emerging technologies can empower communities and shape more equitable futures. He leads Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC, a global reference in digital fabrication and civic innovation. He also…
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James Auger
James Auger is director of the design department at the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS) and co-director of the Centre de Recherche en Design (ENS/ENSCI Les Ateliers). After graduating from Design Products (MA) at the Royal College of Art…
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Jimmy Loizeau
Jimmy Loizeau's is a designer, lecturer, and programme lead in Goldsmiths, University of London’s Design: Expanded Practice MA program. His practice critically examines technologies, systems, and institutions, reimagining how we might interact…
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José Luis de Vicente
José Luis de Vicente is a curator and cultural researcher. He investigates the current and future impact of social and technological innovation through artifacts, objects, and narratives that explore emerging social and political scenarios…
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Silvio Lorusso
Silvio Lorusso is an Italian writer, artist, and designer based in Lisbon, Portugal. He published Entreprecariat (Onomatopee) in 2019 and What Design Can’t Do (Set Margins’) in 2023. Lorusso is an assistant professor at the Lusófona University in Lisbon and a tutor…
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Time's Up
Time’s Up is a Linz, Austria-based laboratory that constructs experiential models of possible futures to explore contemporary and emerging sociopolitical issues. Their practice centers on creating interactive situations that invite audiences to engage in playful, experience-driven exploration, both individually and collectively. Drawing on tools from the arts and design, sociology, mathematics, cultural studies, science, and technology…
REGISTRAT
ION
Participation for the symposium is free of charge. Prior registration is required.
SUMMER SCHOOL
18–22 SEP
The Design + Science summer school is an intensive, hands-on workshop centered on speculative futures.
The Open Call invites 24 master’s and postgraduate students, young professionals, and emerging practitioners working across architecture, design, the arts, technology, the social and natural sciences, and related fields. To confirm participation, a symbolic fee of €50 will be charged. Accommodation and meals will be provided for all selected participants. The summer school will open with the symposium on September 18 and conclude with final presentations on the afternoon of September 22.
BOOKLET
The symposium and summer school will be accompanied by a printed publication.
The booklet will present a curated mix of essays and case studies, offering insights into the themes of the event and their broader implications. Designed as a concise companion to the symposium and workshop, it will focus on how speculative futures are being explored within design and architecture.
Our aim is to create an engaging and thought-provoking resource that encourages reflection and supports continued learning for all participants.
TEAM
CURATOR
Ivica Mitrović
Arts Academy, University of Split (UMAS)
EDITORIAL
Arts Academy, University of Split (UMAS)
Dora Vanette
ORGANISATIONAL TEAM
Simon Gmajner
Centre for Creativity (CZK)
Maja Šuštaršič
Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO)
EXPERT ADVISORS
Sara Božanić
Institute for Trenasmedia Design (ITD)
Anja Zorko
Centre for Creativity (CZK)
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EXPERT BOARD
Boštjan Botas Kenda
Academy of Arts and Design (UL ALUO)
Mario Ciarmitaro
IUAV–University of Venice
Peter Purg
School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica
ORGANIZER
The Centre for Creativity and The Museum of Architecture and Design
Rusjanov trg 7, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
+386 (0)1 548 42 70
info@czk.si
