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The Right to Prototype

Alternative Presents for Plural Futures By Guillem Camprodon This essay was first published in Reclaiming Hope: Navigating (Un)certainty, Imagining Better Futures, the companion book to the 2025 symposium at the […]

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November 04

MDEFest 2025: Designing Futures, Celebrating Change

A festival about possible futures by our Master in Design for Emergent Future’s Students

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September 26

Running Water: Following the Flow in the Italian Alps

Each year, the Master in Design for Emergent Futures (MDEF) organises an immersive field trip as a research residency in an unconventional setting. Over the course of a week, participants engage in research practices deeply rooted in the local context, working hands-on with local communities, ecologies, and materials.

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May 05

A tarot deck for interspecies design

A playful tool created by Master on Design for Emergent Futures alumni to rethink biodesign ethics and collaboration across species.

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April 04
Design Dialogues I

Designing in Uncertainty: MDEF Design Dialogues I as a Playground for the Future

At the first MDEF Design of the year, students transformed the IAAC Main Hall into a living laboratory of emergent futures, speculative experiments, and radical prototyping.

Emergent IdeasMDEFThe Class
January 31

From Barcelona to Japan: A Vision for Circular Design in the Asia-Pacific

Meet Ryota Kamio, an MDEF alumni who is working with circular design practices in the context of the Asia-Pacific region.

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October 02

Beyond MDEF: Professional Development in Practice

Explore the career paths MDEF alumni undertake after graduation

Make ThingsMDEFTake Action!
October 01

Prototypes integrating fashion technology

Read about the projects developed by the students of the Future Technologies for Sustainable Fashion program

Make ThingsMDEFThe Class
July 16

Behind the scenes of MDEFest 2024

Discover the community-driven interventions MDEF students presented throughout the duration of the festival

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June 21

Navigating MDEF 

Explore the types of final projects done by the students of the Master in Design for Emergent Futures

MDEFTake Action!The Class
June 10
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MDEF 02 is here!

Introducing a second year of the Master in Design for Emergent Futures!

MDEFThe Class
May 13