The future is the only time-zone we can influence. And design is a sharp tool in shaping the future. The intentions and values of design are going to be increasingly important in determing our possibilities to create a sustainable way of living.

FutureDesignDays gathers actors from all disciplines for a debate on the shape of the future. After all, the most powerful tool in the world is not the hand. It’s the ideas behind it that give the design process its momentum and power, enabling the designer to influence the things around us – and by doing so influencing the world at large. FutureDesignDays aims towards highlighting the possibilities of the design process.

Challenge

By fusing technological innovations and artistic freedom, design can be a way of challenging old paradigms and obsolete structures.

Change

By changing the way we look at the things around us, we can change the way we think. By that, we can make the future contain meaningful things – and sound environments.

Create

By creating, we show that thoughts may turn into things – and that the idea is in itself a power. Visualising the future through strong ideas means making the future happen – today.

Craft

By employing an honest craft we render our ideas useful and sustainable. Consumption is thus replaced by relations. Mere articles become useful articles.

Care

By caring we show our good intentions. That we are prepared to stand up and fight for our values, ideals and intentions. The result is sustainable development; aesthetically, economically, ecologically.