Dezeen promotion: Brooklyn's A/D/O design venue is hosting a three-day festival of talks, films and experiences later this month, and Dezeen readers can get 15 per cent off the price of tickets.
The Utopia vs Dystopia festival will explore the role of design in a changing world, examining scientific advances such as robotics, artificial intelligence, automation and new production technologies.
Design critic Alice Rawsthorn is among the keynote speakers
A programme of conversations with some of the world's most recognised figures will be taking place across the course of the festival.
Critic Alice Rawsthorn, designer Yves Béhar, architecture collective Assemble and Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs each host talks in which they question whether design will "tip the scales" towards a utopian or dystopian future. John Maeda, head of computational design and inclusion at Automattic; New York designer Stephen Burks; and Rory Hyde, curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at London's V&A, will also present keynote speeches.
Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs is also among the speakers
"Each and every social and technological innovation inspires potential, whether revolutionary or evolutionary," said the event organiser. "We focus critically on the role of design, in not only helping formulate those choices, but also shaping the principles in which we view them."
"Through the lens of design, we ask what ethos to embrace in ...