#8 Transforming Industrial Design

Germany's industry is investing billions in the infrastructure of the country and its companies. Industrial design plays a key role in the digitalization of the economy.

#7 Digital System Design

To create a seamless and satisfying customer experience today, designers have to look beyond the product itself to design complete business ecosystems – without losing sight of the user and consumer.

#6 Can Robots Kill?

Through digitalization and AI, a man-machine continuum has developed. Yet, if we want to mount social acceptance of these wonderful technologies, designers have to empower people in using them. It is nothing less than the humanization of technology.

#5 Design and digitalization

Technologies permeate all areas of our lives thanks to digitalization and Artificial Intelligence. But do the improvements felt economically and socially actually make our lives better as well?

#4 Design is a Mindset

Digitalization changes everything: the way we live and work, what we value, and how we perceive brands. So how do the best design talents adopt their role in an increasingly digital world?

#3 Design Leadership

As innovations create advantages for companies, establishing a culture of design culture is of significant importance to enable corporate change.

#2 The Changing Role of Design

Humanizing technology: we need more fundamental debates about the role of the designer in the digital age.

#1 More Fiction for Science!

Philipp K. Dick’s science fiction stories are still relevant to the present-day reader. They make us question reality and ask: what distinguishes a person from a machine?