Design for Humanity Introduction

We are proud to present a global survey, as exhaustive as possible, of design that represents and expresses the new understanding of humanity – or harmony. Ideas of Community; Energy; Infrastructure; Tradition and Modernity; Work, Leisure and Home; Culture; Wellbeing; Retail, the Digital Revolution, Machine Intelligence, Materials … the list goes on and on.

Day 1 Morning: Home, Urbanism/Ruralism, Culture and Community

‘Home’ in the city and the country: a city needs a relationship with nature, in the play between urbanism and ‘ruralism’. Plus the new idea of the city must include a new idea of community; how does this affect both urban and residential design?

Day 1 Afternoon: Home from Home, Privacy, Culture, Emotion and Serenity

Retail: The bookshop as a place of worship, and in unlikely rural outposts, as a privately uplifting space.

Hospitality: ’Home from Home’ means Wellbeing, plus connection with the natural world and materials. This is design for serenity – plus emotion as a function of design.