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06 February 2024

Between 21st to 23rd of March, Lisbon will be the landscape to tackle global futures: mobility, energy, education, healthcare, governments, food, design, arts, and many more.

Istituto Europeo di Design is the main educational partner of Future Days, a festival for futures and systemic thinkers, innovation-seekers, creatives, purpose-driven organizations and policy-makers that will take place in Lisbon between the 21st to 23rd of March.

IED Barcelona’s Master in Design Management alumni Uri Casademont and Maria Sahade dreamed of this global platform where actionable narrative finds a common language to foster positive change, and together with a team of more than 20 people, they made it a reality.

The first edition of Future Days will take place in Lisbon, on the 50th anniversary of Portuguese democracy, and specialists from different sectors will discuss post-urban lives in large-scale ecosystems, equitable governances for tomorrow’s societies or pluricultural creations and the AI era.

Their goal? To co-create narratives encouraging actions for democratizing futures.

After some previous workshops at IED Barcelona, the Master in Design Management and Master in Fashion Business Innovation students will participate in the two-day event located in Estufa Fria.

Take a look at the full program of Future Days here

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