Program
FORM / FUTURE Conference 2025 took place from September 11 — 14 at ICC Berlin — four days, five stages, six tracks.
Tracks
Explore the six core tracks of FORM/FUTURE 2025. Click on the cards to reveal the key topics shaping tomorrow’s design landscape.
Design Strategy
Creative leadership, organizational transformation, and design as a strategic process.
Design Strategy
Design is not just a tool — it’s a way of thinking, leading, and organizing. This track focuses on how design transforms internal cultures, processes, and leadership models. It’s where brand, creativity, and strategy intersect to drive change inside organizations.
- DesignOps & Creative Operations
- Organizational transformation & leadership
- Brand strategy & culture building
- Change management through design
- Design-driven business models
- Creative processes in complex systems
Design Industry
Design as a driver of products, markets, and business transformation.
Design Industry
This track explores how design creates measurable impact in industries and economies. From products to platforms, customer experiences to industrial systems — how design scales transformation, drives competitiveness, and builds resilience in volatile markets.
- Design-driven business transformation
- Customer experience & service design
- Industrial design & manufacturing futures
- Brand-driven innovation
- Business models, platforms & ecosystems
- Retail, mobility, health, hospitality futures
Design Tech
Emerging tech, human-machine futures, and the next frontier of design.
Design Tech
Technology is not neutral — it’s designed. This track explores how design shapes our interaction with AI, XR, robotics, and computational systems. It’s about the tools, platforms, and interfaces that define the future — and the role of design in making them humane, meaningful, and accessible.
- AI & generative design
- XR, spatial computing & virtual worlds
- Robotics & embodied interfaces
- Design systems & automation
- Computational & data-driven design
- Human-machine interaction futures
Design, Policy & Society
Design as tool for democracy, public value, and community-driven change.
Design, Policy & Society
This track looks at design as a civic tool — shaping cities, communities, and public systems in a world of crisis and fragmentation. How can design foster participation, trust, and adaptive infrastructures for thriving, resilient societies?
- Urban futures & spatial design
- Civic design & participatory systems
- Public sector transformation
- Social design & community building
- Governance, policy, and democratic innovation
- Design for accessibility & inclusion
Design Learning
Future skills, creative education, and adaptive learning for a changing world.
Design Learning
Design is more than a profession — it’s a future skill. This track looks at how design reshapes education, talent development, and lifelong learning. It’s about empowering individuals and organizations to navigate change with creativity and agency.
- Design education & creative learning models
- Future skills & workforce transformation
- Talent ecosystems for the creative economy
- Corporate learning, upskilling & reskilling
- Design for schools & youth futures
- AI, automation & the future of work
Design for Planet
Circular systems, regenerative materials, and sustainable innovation.
Design for Planet
This track explores how design contributes to a regenerative economy and planetary health. From material innovation to circular business models — learn how designers re- think products, systems, and infrastructures for a world in climate crisis.
- Circular design & regenerative systems
- Sustainable materials & product design
- Low-impact manufacturing
- Design for biodiversity & ecosystems
- Industrial decarbonization & green transformation
- Planet-centered design ethics