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Join us on October 21, 2025 at Fifth NRE for a day filled with exciting discussions and presentations on the intersection of design and artificial intelligence. Industry practitioners, design researchers and young talents will re-imagine, re-sist and re-purpose design and AI.
AI optimism <> AI criticism
For some designers, AI is getting closer or even inevitable and they welcome or need to embrace the new opportunities for designing with and for AI. Others focus on the risks and try to resist the inevitability and stand firm in avoiding the reliance on AI.
In the symposium, rather than focusing solely on doom and gloom, or only celebrating the AI magic, we provide a productive space for contestation, re-imagination, and communal collaboration.
Europe <> Silicon Valley
Today’s geo-political climate and the reliance on big technological companies forces us to reconsider which technologies to use and for what purpose. We are also reconsidering our underlying values to align the use of AI technologies and Large Language Models with those values.
In our choice for speakers and participants we look closer to home and showcase projects that value respect, creative freedom and inclusion, and societal purpose beyond hype, efficiency, and pure economic power.
Join us in this symposium
Join us to experience and discuss the creative imagination and joyful resistance that is emerging in academia, design studios, and policymaking. Together, we can develop and research design and AI with a purpose for society, for design, and for realizing the promise of a future worth wanting.
