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Conscious Design Calendar
Upcoming events.
Urban Future
Urban change-makers meet in Helsingborg. Say "hej" to this mid-sized city in Sweden – which is one of the most innovative and rapidly changing cities in Europe.
bio 27 – Super Vernaculars Design for a regenerative future
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana
26th May-29th September 2022
Global expansion and the pursuit of profit at the planet’s expense have precipitated the climate crisis and accelerated a massive imbalance between humanity and the natural world. Super Vernaculars, bio 27’s central theme, explores a growing and ambitious movement that takes inspiration from vernacular and indigenous architecture and design traditions around the world to shape a radical vision for a more resilient and responsive future.
17th International Design Conferance
Discussion and further development of all aspects of design knowledge from cognition and philosophy, to methods and tools, from research theory to practice.
SSCG Africa Sustainability Summit 2022
Join us for The SSCG Africa Sustainability Summit 2022 on Thu 28 April 2022.
Theme: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Climate Change, Circular Economy, Green Growth and Renewables Investment, Technologies and Innovations.
Designing for Global Impact
The upcoming Global Design Thinking Workshop will take place from March 7th to March 31st, 2022. During a special Global Design Thinking Workshop, we will focus on designs that have global impact while incorporating system-level change. In collaboration with a project partner and a diverse and international team, the participants will work on a design challenge and experience the process and mindset of Design Thinking.
Arctic Design Week
The week brings together professionals in the field of design to discuss their work with businesses and citizens. ADW presents design talks and workshops, design exhibitions, pop-up design shops and restaurants, and many other events.
Design it Build it
DIBI is back! The 2022 edition welcomes an outstanding array of speakers who will explore how digital products and services can help us reconnect and how they will evolve to meet our changing needs to overcome the pandemic.
Arctic Design Week
The week brings together professionals in the field of design to discuss their work with businesses and citizens. ADW presents design talks and workshops, design exhibitions, pop-up design shops and restaurants, and many other events.
Geelong Design Week
How design meets our need for a sense of belonging, how do we create places and environments that can be used by all, and how to stay connected can ensure our safety and promote a better quality of life.
Design Confluence
Confluence aims to create an interface between the education and industry sectors to discuss how design and technology education can be used to support the emerging economies of the new world. Confluence's findings will include a high-level statement and proposal for policymakers with guidance on how to harness the power of design to address current educational challenges, provide quality education and lifelong opportunities for all in a new world scenario.
Regenerative Design Principles
Join the event through the Space10 Instagram account for a lively discussion to explore how we, as individuals and collectively, can get closer to a regenerative mindset.
Sustainability for Your Business
Join Hartpury’s Digital Innovation Farm Tech Box Park and the presenter of Sustainable Business Design Limited and Go Climate Positive to better understand and identify both the environmental and business case for good sustainability practice within your business.
Designing for Global Impact
The upcoming Global Design Thinking Workshop will take place from March 7th to March 31st, 2022. During a special Global Design Thinking Workshop, we will focus on designs that have global impact while incorporating system-level change. In collaboration with a project partner and a diverse and international team, the participants will work on a design challenge and experience the process and mindset of Design Thinking.
Waste Age: What can design do?
A new generation of designers are rethinking how we should relate to everyday things. From fashion to food, electronics to construction, even packaging – finding the lost value in our trash and imagining a future of clean materials and a circular economy could point the way out of the Waste Age.
Saudi Design Festival
The Saudi Design Festival hosted by the Architecture and Design Commission will be the first of its kind in the Middle East, and will transform Riyadh into a center of creative dialogue in the JAX district from January 9th to 29th, 2022. SDF focuses on the transformative power of design and through design, and will bring communities together to celebrate great design, reimagine the future, connect and create our presence on the global cultural and creative map.
Right Aligned Online: In conversation with Maisie Benson
Right Aligned Online is a weekly series with inspiring designers. It's a series of conversations where you can learn creativity and empowerment.
Right Aligned Online: In conversation with Where Giants Roam
Right Aligned Online is a weekly series with inspiring designers. It's a series of conversations where you can learn creativity and empowerment.
Saudi Design Festival
The Saudi Design Festival hosted by the Architecture and Design Commission will be the first of its kind in the Middle East, and will transform Riyadh into a center of creative dialogue in the JAX district from January 9th to 29th, 2022. SDF focuses on the transformative power of design and through design, and will bring communities together to celebrate great design, reimagine the future, connect and create our presence on the global cultural and creative map.
Right Aligned Online: In conversation with Niamh Tulley
Right Aligned Online is a weekly series with inspiring designers. It's a series of conversations where you can learn creativity and empowerment.
Saudi Design Festival
The Saudi Design Festival hosted by the Architecture and Design Commission will be the first of its kind in the Middle East, and will transform Riyadh into a center of creative dialogue in the JAX district from January 9th to 29th, 2022. SDF focuses on the transformative power of design and through design, and will bring communities together to celebrate great design, reimagine the future, connect and create our presence on the global cultural and creative map.
Right Aligned Online: In conversation with the Modern World
Right Aligned Online is a weekly series with inspiring designers. It's a series of conversations where you can learn creativity and empowerment.
Saudi Design Festival
The Saudi Design Festival hosted by the Architecture and Design Commission will be the first of its kind in the Middle East, and will transform Riyadh into a center of creative dialogue in the JAX district from January 9th to 29th, 2022. SDF focuses on the transformative power of design and through design, and will bring communities together to celebrate great design, reimagine the future, connect and create our presence on the global cultural and creative map.