Designing Transformative Futures
Join us in the second edition of DesignDesign, a space to explore critical, systemic, and future-oriented design practices.
For this session, we turn to a question many creative practitioners wrestle with:
How do we create and hold space in our practice to work with uncertainty, explore alternatives, and experiment with new ways of designing?
🎤 We start with a short talk by Riccardo Torta, whose work explores how design engages with transition and systemic transformation. Drawing from his work in the UnSee research at the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano, he will introduce the concept of “Windows of Transformative Futures,” an experimental meta-space where new ideas, habits, and ways of living can be explored and tested.
✍️ We’ll then move into a facilitated workshop to translate the talk into practical approaches. Working in small groups, we will examine different perspectives around a shifting system and explore how the introduction of a new idea or technology could affect the landscape of positions and possibilities.
This event is donation-based and open to designers, strategists, researchers, and anyone using design as a tool for long-term transformation. All contributions go toward supporting the hosting space to keep collaborations like this accessible.
Agenda
Arrival & welcome
“Holding Windows of Transformative Futures” by Riccardo Torta + Q&A
Reflection and group workshop
Closing conversation & networking
About Riccardo Torta
Riccardo Torta (he/him), Service & Systemic Designer + Researcher, has worked in the humanitarian sector with reflexive and critical practices. His research revolves around exploring service design's expansion towards systemic and futures perspectives.
Former design researcher at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, current external consultant for UNDP Strategic Innovation unit.
About C*SPACE
C*SPACE is a purpose-driven creative hub in Berlin-Weißensee, located in a former furniture factory. Through co-working, cultural programs, and community events, it brings together people to explore regenerative and collaborative ways of working. We’re thankful to host this edition of DesignDesign in a space that truly values thoughtful exchange. 🙏
About DesignDesign
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DesignDesign is a community to share, learn, and practice approaches, methods, and techniques that collectively shape how we design. It is an independent collective by Dominik Markušić Gross (he/they) and Freddie Sukprasong (he/they), cross-disciplinary designers based in Berlin, Germany.
DesignDesign aims to support designers and creative practitioners exploring future-friendly, ethically grounded, and systemic approaches to design. We create a place to reimagine not just what we design, but how and why we design.