Social Design Network Conference 2026
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All projects
All projects
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Workshop
Workshop
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Exhibition
Exhibition
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Conference
Conference
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Festival
Festival
18. – 22.09.2025
Lucerne
The Social Design Network is a group of individual researchers, educators and practitioners of social design who aim to change the design discipline from within.
We build our work on collaborative processes and knowledge-sharing. Through our projects, we actively develop and explore new ways of collaboration, innovative methods and tools for positive social impact.
TRACKS
Diversity and New Actors
Social Design is inherently participatory, involving a broad spectrum of actors. This track explores how emerging alliances and “design’s significant others” reshape participation, agency, and collaboration. We will discuss positions that critically address these dynamics, including ethical questions and the complexities of inclusion. How can Social Design foster new forms of solidarity in diverse societies? How might we rethink space, community, and non-human agency in light of environmental constraints and intergenerational justice?
As AI, automation, and platform technologies reshape societies, design faces new ethical, political, and methodological challenges. This track will also explore how Social Design can respond to the complexities of digital transformation: questions of data ownership, algorithmic bias, and access to emerging technologies. How might we reclaim agency and foster justice in increasingly datafied contexts?
