Design is a language, a system of signs, shapes, colors, and narratives capable of building bridges between different worlds, generating meanings, and giving voice to our time. But what happens when the language of design opens up to contamination, surpasses disciplinary rules, and reinvents itself through new perspectives? The talk brings together designers who view language as a space for continuous research, spanning graphic design, art, technology, and critical thinking.
The Rodina – NL | Motion Design
Action to Surface
Tereza Ruller explores how freedom and playfulness, traditionally reserved for artists, can be made accessible to a wider audience by designing situations or objects that encourage participation and have the potential to transform users or social contexts. By examining her recent projects, Ruller introduces “performative design,” a practice that combines graphic design, playfulness, physicality, action, and eventness to foster an alternative mode of value production.
Bahlmer Hallen – CH | Brand Design
Active since 2013 in the heart of Lausanne, the studio specializes in art, design, music, and photography. Through a transdisciplinary approach, Balmer Hählen integrates digital media and print into their thinking on a daily basis, considering these two media as complementary languages.
Baltan Laboratories – NL | Social Innovation
Indisciplinary by learning
Lorenzo Gerbi offers an alternative to the academic discussion on disciplinarity, stepping away from the methodological trap of inter-, trans-, and multi-disciplinary labels. The designer suggests temporarily removing disciplines to promote better collaboration among people from different fields, outside of an interdisciplinary project, learning together.
The purchase of the Design Talk ticket includes daily entry to the festival.
PROMO: €50 when you purchase tickets for two different talks, by entering the promotional code PROMO-TALK at the time of purchase.
The Design Talk will be held in Italian and English based on the language of the guest, without translation.
