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» In continuity with past editions, Lisa White of the trend forecasting company WGSN will provide an overview of some of the most significant trends that will soon impact fashion, design, creativity, and society.
The conference will then delve into two crucial aspects for Altagamma’s cultural and creative industries, already part of Triennale Milano’s research focus.

» Longevity: the value and dimension of contemporaneity among people, in creative industries, in professions, and in the design and conception of products and services. This theme interweaves design, fashion, health, and healthcare policies that influence access to more virtuous behaviors—enabling a vision of longevity not dependent on pharmaceuticals and medical protocols, but rather on creative projects that redefine life paradigms. Contributing to the discussion will be Nic Palmarini, Director of the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) and one of the leading international experts on longevity, lifestyles, and the new array of objects and services that support them; and Barbara Franchin, founder of ITS Arcademy, which maps new fashion talents and whose archive documents contemporary examples of how care, health, and a new concept of time are central to the research of emerging designers. Yet full and rounded longevity is also a guarantor of wisdom and vision and—especially in the field of design and planning—an element that can be transmitted and transformed into method: we will discuss this with Lord Norman Foster.

» New worlds, building awareness: regions undergoing profound transformation such as the Middle East and Africa, explored through the evolution of lifestyles shaping markets and product categories. Dialogue and the ability to interpret signals coming from communication and media, architecture, design, and culture allow us to grasp strategic nuances. Key voices include Rashid and Ahmed Bin Shabib—Emirati cultural scholars, designers, and curators, and editors of Brownbook; Fahad Ahmed Al Obaidly, Director of the Doha Design Biennial, an exhibition and research platform that interprets and hosts trends and new profiles from Qatar; and architects and curators Jeanne Autran-Edorh & Fabiola Büchele, among the most promising emerging talents attentive to the dialogue between Europe and African regions.