Futures Scapes
Futures Design-Edu
Futures Literacy
Futures Well-being
Anna Barbara
Adama Sanneh
Manuela Celi
Luca Simeone &Rike Neuhoff
“Futurescapes to design   architecture”
Co-funder of GDFN-Global Design Futures Network.
Architect and Associate Professor in Design Department,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Anna Barbara
“Inspiring a new generation of creative thinkers and doers”
Co-founder and CEO,
Moleskine Foundation, Italy.

Adama Sanneh
“Design futures literacies. Practice-based
pedagogical scapes”
Associate professor
in Design Department,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Director of course
Designing Sustainable Futures,
by Institute for the Future in collaboration with POLI.design
Manuela Celi
“How can I think like a fish if I am not a fish?
Inhabiting the tension betweeeven
self-centeredness and otherness”
Associate Professor,
Aalborg University, Danmark.
PhD Fellow,
Aalborg University, Danmark.
Luca Simeone
Rike Neuhoff
Panel 1: 「Futures Scapes」 / 2nd December 13:30-15:00 Milan
Peter Scupelli
Peter C. Bishop
Doris Wells-Papanek
Susanna Sancassani
“How might futures and design mix? Alternative futures for futures thinking in design education”
Co-funder of GDFN-Global Design Futures Network.
Associate Professor
in School of Design,
Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Peter Scupelli
“Futures for All:  Preparing Young People for the Future”
Founder and Executive Director,
Teach the Future, USA.

Peter C. Bishop
“THE ART OF BEING CURIOUS Preparing Young Minds for Design Futures via Creative Problem Solving”







Director and founder, Design Learning Network, USA.
Doris Wells-Papanek
“The crown of Hieron: a key of next learning scenarios”
Managing Director, in METID (Methods and Innovative technologies for Learning), Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Susanna Sancassani
Panel 2: 「Futures Design-Education」 / 2nd December 15:10-16:40 Milan
Zhiyong Fu
Luca Guerrini
Francesca Murialdo
Christopher Kirwan
“Design Foresight for Alternative Wellbeing Futures”
Associate Professor,
Ph.D., Supervisor of
Information Art and Design
Department,
Academy of Arts and Design,
Tsinghua University, China.
Zhiyong Fu
“Milan in twenty years. Forecasts from a young generation of Interior Design students”
Associate Professor in Design Department,   Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Luca Guerrini
“From architecture to community : adaptive reuse as social practice”  







PhD. SFHEA, Director of programmes in Interior Architecture and Design, Middlesex University in London, UK.
Francesca Murialdo
“Convergence Evolution in Smart Systems”
Managing Director, Newwork International, London / New York. Visiting Professor in Henley Business School, Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading UK.
Christopher Kirwan
Panel 3: 「Futures Well-being」 / 3nd December 13:30-15:00 Milan
Shams Hamid
Adam Cowart
Nicklas Larsen
Dan Lockton
“IMAGINE - Designing futures literacy labs for sustaining climate change”

Dean of Social Sciences, Founding Director of
IMAGINE
Institute of Futures Studies,
Iqra University, Pakistan.
Shams Hamid
“Durational Stories of Transformation: Transition Design, Futures Literacy, and the role of middlecasting in weaving and scaffolding near term futures with aspirational futures”
PhD researcher,Teaching Fellow in School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University. Adjunct professor, University of Houston, USA.

Adam Cowart
“Expanding the realities in which we design”







Head of Arts and Culture in Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Danmark. UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Leadership and Futures Capabilities.
Nicklas Larsen
“Imaginaries, Lost Futures, and New Metaphors: Some experiments in futuring for design students”
Assistant Professor in 'Future Everyday' Group of Industrial Design, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Dan Lockton
Panel 4: 「Futures Literacy」 / 3nd December 15:10-16:40 Milan