Interaction 20

What has made it valuable is the mix of workshops, talks, and hands-on experiences.

What made it special was the participation of more than a thousand people passionate about design, who brought their diverse mindset and experiences on stage and off stage.

This year’s event featured:

The Interaction 20 Conference
Workshops
Education Summit
Local Leaders Retreat
Student Design Charette
Interaction Awards Ceremony
Satellite events

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As researchers, designers and makers, we have begun to create almost anything for anywhere. We play with new technologies; we have broadened our scope of action and influence; now, we face unprecedented organizational, societal, and industrial challenges.

We see the need for a new dawn; a transition to future ways to design, which will be pushed by new generations of designers, and - we believe - non-designers as well. What brought us here will not be enough to help us design the future. We need fresh perspectives.

Such a transition implies openness and strives for confrontation and debate among different and sometimes opposing views. At Interaction Week 2020, we embraced and even fostered this debate.

We see three principles to guide us towards this new dawn:

Deconstruct/Reconstruct Design

Question basic assumptions and our design rituals. They became standards to help us design for a context that might not be relevant any longer. Embrace a new way of doing things, including new, maybe disruptive, design practices.

Empower new voices

Support new generations of passionate designers and design-minded professionals who are redefining how to design, and even fighting against the old way. Actively bring to the forefront the perspectives that were not privileged in the past decades.

Nurture contamination

Seek for new ways to collaborate with - and get inspiration from - other disciplines, even when this might challenge or question the designer’s role and responsibilities. Learn, adopt, adapt, tweak and steal methods and approaches coming from fields we get more and more often in contact with.