This year’s program embraces the powerful triad of hindsight, insight and foresight.

On day two, we’ll peer over the horizon, get out of “oh f*ck” and into “now what?,” and look ahead to the tools, design principles, creative spaces, and mental models needed to build many preferable futures.

We’ll connect and reflect with radical candor, lean forward to learn in community, then move through to what’s next—inspired, informed, and invigorated with hope.

program

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28

The Theatre

hosted by
Johanna Koljonen

The Hall

The Bar

hosted by
Himanshu Rohilla

08.00 - 10.00
registration

Start the second day of The Conference with (inter)action. Sign up for an activity and be guided by speakers, partners and expert practitioners to get present, get playful, get outside, and get in right relationship with each other before we get to work.

Or walk in to get grounded as you need to. Take a moment for some individual reflection in The Dreamspace, go through a guided outdoors meditation with Oneiric Soils, or enjoy some networking while getting a taste of Malmö's ancient food futures with Tång Tång, Catxalot, and Oatly in The Coffee Bar.

Exclusive access for The Conference ticket-holders.

08.30 - 10.30
GETTING GROUNDED

10.00 - 10.45
BIG SNACK BREAK

10.45 - 11.45
Keynote: Rewilding Our Imaginations

ANAB JAIN, Superflux

"We have learned in our work that one of the most powerful means of effecting change is when people can directly, tangibly and emotionally experience some of the future consequences of their actions today."

11.45 - 12.00
BREAK

12.00 - 12.55
Late-stage Digitalisation

TRUDY PAINTER,
Google
SOMYA JOSHI,
Stockholm Environment Institute

“Ecologists have reoriented their field as a ‘crisis discipline,’ a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same.”
(Maria Farrell, Robin Berjon, We Need to Rewild the Internet)

12.00 - 12.55
Learning how to learn

ELLA FITZSIMMONS,
Service Designer
JAMES TAYLOR-FOSTER, Architectural Designer
LORE OXFORD,
Reddit

"How you play is what you win.”
(Ursula K LeGuin, The Matter of Seggri)

13.00 - 14.00
LUNCH

Welcome to join Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova that will live-stream their Foresight Wednesday from the mingle area. Featuring three The Conference speakers.

14.15 - 15.15
Manufacturing Materiality

ROSA WHITELEY, CLIMAVORE

DANIEL LIDEN, Product Designer

LAURA FEINSTEIN, Kickstarter

"Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers."
(Karen Barad, New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies)

14.15 - 15.15
Rewilding us

GIULIA TESTA, Rewilding Europe

MICHAEL KIBEDI, Design researcher

SEOWOO NAM, Designer

"Rewilding pays attention to the emergent properties of interactions between ‘things’ in ecosystems … a move from linear to systems thinking.”
(Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe, Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery)

15.15 - 16.00
BREAK

Seaweed + Softserve: get a taste of Malmö's ancient food futures with Tång Tång, Catxalot, and Oatly in The Coffee Bar.

16.00 - 17.00
KEYNOTE: who must we be?

NIPUN MEHTA, ServiceSpace

"As we juggle the delicate balance between modern innovations and ancient wisdom, Who must we be to catalyze the skilful union between algorithmic intelligence, evolutionary intuition, and collective emergence? That question requires more than just technologists -- it requires the wisdom all who care to lead with multi-dimensional relationships over singular transactions."