One year on, what have we learned?
Interaction Week 2022
A week like no other
When we framed the theme for Interaction 21 — Design in Perilous Times — a global pandemic was still on the horizon. We were interested in the state of our practice and of the world around us.
Navigating the last year has revealed truths. Our shared experience underlines the importance of connection, collaboration and community. Gathering together is something we value — even when doing it online.
Equally, though this is a global phenomenon, our experiences have been very different. We must redesign systems and structures to be equitable and inclusive. We only succeed when our efforts are truly human-centred.
This is why, as we get ready to gather online — again — for Interaction 22, we find ourselves asking this question:
One year on, what have we learned?
Week overview
Speakers
Sabine Junginger
Sandra Gonzalez
Angel Anderson
Hamed Yahyaei
Alice Mela
Cheryl Platz
Amélie Bissonnette-Montminy
Matteo Loglio
Pablo Marquevichi
Kahran LaTourette
Tanu Malhotra
Molly Oberholtzer
Satu Anttonen
Aysun Aytac
George Cave
Viviane Tavares
Suné Stassen
Gleb Kuznetsov
Pavi Logeswaran
Sami Niemelä
Bruce Sterling
Pablo Stanley
Jessica Gardner
Felix Lee
Fernando Feller
Debbie Levitt
Shree Lakshmi (SL) Rao
Anthony Viviano
Kamil Kamysz
Justine Sun Dela Cruz
Jon Yablonski
Leandro Butteri
Sage Cheng
Filippo Cuttica
Christopher Noessel
Paul Hong
Ghada Wali
Vivianne Castillo
Georgia Bullen
Laura Balboa
Lee Jordan
Juli Sikorska
Apurva Gupta
Josiane Longhi
Beatriz Gonzalez
Danielle Chen
Francesca Desmarais
Jane Vita
Sylvain Jacques
Brett Renfer
Jessica Outlaw
Andy Vitale
Our three pillars
The Principles
Embracing Ambiguity
Whether it’s the uncertainty of early product development, balancing responsible design with profit, or reimagining services and systems, the work in front of us requires getting comfortable with charting what can feel like the unknown.
New Essentials: Our Building Blocks
Should you build it? Moreover, how? From tools to teams to processes, we look at the building blocks of our practice now and into the future.
We care: For ourselves, for our team
The pandemic has collapsed our boundaries between work and home. And ignited new conversations around inclusion and equity. We’ll talk about what it means to be human-centred in these challenging times.
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