Twentieth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices
- Design Across Time
- 25-27 February 2026
- Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, + Online
The Twentieth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
University of Milan, Italy
"Designing the Social. From Bicycles to Artificial Intelligence"
Director, Department of Architecture and Contemporary Design, MAXXI Museum, Italy
"Theories and Practices for a Contemporary Design Collection"
Architect and Designer, Conceptual Devices, Zurich
"We Are the Rain. Epistemic Design when there is no Outside"
Dean of the School of Art and Design, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
(Online)
Vice President of Higher School of Education of Lisbon, Lisbon Polytechnic, Portugal Coordinator of the Visual Arts and Technologies DegreeDesignLab4U Founder
(In person)
Lecturer-in-Charge, School of Fashion, Faculty of Design, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
(In person)
Designer; Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Design at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio, Brazil
(Online)
CEO of the Conifer Futures Group, Toronto, Canada
(Online)
Professor, Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab at Emily Carr University, (DESIS n.d.)
(Online)
PhD, Full Professor in Design, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Architect; Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Researcher and Assistant Professor, Department of Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Researcher and Assistant Professor, Department of Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
The New School University, United States of America
(In-Person)
IE University, Spain\
(In-Person)
University of Lisbon, Portugal
(In-Person)
Dalhousie University, Canada
(In-Person)
Florida Atlantic University, United States of America
(In-Person)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy\
(In-Person)
Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
(In-Person)
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
(In-Person)
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
(In-Person)
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
(In-Person)
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
(In-Person)
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
(In-Person)
Mälardalen University, Sweden
(In-Person)
Marywood University, United States
(Online Only)
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
(Online Only)
University of Mississippi, United States
(Online Only)
IIT Roorkee, India
(Online Only)
STIIMA (CNR), Bari - Politecnico di Bari, Italy
(Online Only)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
(Online Only)
MacEwan University, Alberta
(Online Only)
Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
(Online Only)
Rome, Italy
