How can we model the context of our thinking so that thought leaps become possible? Thought leaps that bet on altered insights like a gambler betting on winning by chance.

In Renaissance Europe, printers (with typesetters and illustrators in their employ) performed an essential editorial role in the politics of making knowledge public, deciding what would be published and qualifying texts with printed marginalia. In our digital culture there are no such gatekeepers, for better and for worse. Amateur content creators are empowered by access to tools and decentralised publishing networks, and yet the information space is made infinitely more corruptible. Perhaps the most urgent question we must confront as communication designers is this: How will we create the opportunities to do important work? We simply cannot wait to be asked.

Fantastic music and food in the foyer, in the middle of the show. Let’s have further conversations and fun. A fine line-up is prepared by students of HBK.