Archive - The New Design Congress

Invitation: The Para-Real Screening with C/O Berlin - 14 July 2022

We’re thrilled to announce the re-launch of The Para-Real: Finding the future in unexpected places. The 2022-2023 series is commissioned as part ofC/O…

Jul 13, 2022

June 2022

Expectations as Reality: on the collapse of the Western art and design school

How does the art and design school produce its subjects, namely professional designers? What values, criteria and mechanisms are tacitly or explicitly…

Jun 28, 2022

The Imperial Sensorium - Part Two

The conclusion to Benjamin Royer's new essay on nuclear technoaesthetics and cybernetics, and how the enmeshing of these two influential ways of seeing…

Jun 21, 2022

Co-authoring a charter to reconstruct the built environment

New Design Congress a key contributor to new policy for reconstructing the future for people and planet

Jun 20, 2022

The Imperial Sensorium - Part One

By dismantling the world built upon the nuclear order and cybernetics, and embracing the irreducible complexity of a world that refuses its absorption…

Jun 17, 2022

April 2022

Invitation: Adam Greenfield x NDC - May 3, 2022

New Design Congress invites you to FIGURES Episode 2: a discussion about systems with Adam Greenfield. Livestreaming May 3 @ 7:30pm BST / 8:30pm CEST …

Apr 27, 2022

November 2021

STARTING NOW: Welcome to My Thread Talk livestream with Silvio Lorusso

A free event by the New Design Congress

Nov 19, 2021

Special livestream invite: Welcome to my Thread Talk - November 19 2021

Join Silvio Lorusso and New Design Congress for an intimate on design and disillusion

Nov 12, 2021

October 2021

New Research Report: The Limits to Digital Consent

A collaboration from The New Design Congress & Simply Secure that seeks to understand the risks of ethical data collection for underrepresented…

Oct 25, 2021

July 2021

Aesthetic Flattening

How the economics of consumer tech and the practice of human centered design pressed digital life into a joyless substitute for social interaction.

Jul 13, 2021

"Be part of the Interspecies Revolution!" - Announcing the Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025

A major new collaboration between The New Design Congress x Furtherfield, London

Jul 6, 2021

June 2021

BRB, AFK: The Para-Real series is taking a short break

Jun 27, 2021

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