Merging Design Futures and Art Thinking approaches for responsible, sustainable and future-proof innovation.

The concept of Future-Oriented Collective Intelligence (FOCI) offers a transformative approach to making sense of and addressing future challenges that are complex and interconnected. The topic will be at the centre of the Futures4Europe Conference that will take place on 15 - 16 May 2025 in Vienna, Austria, at the Skydome in Vienna’s thrilling 7th district.   

The registration for the conference has closed on April 15, 2025. Please note that there is currently a waiting list and available spots will be allocated in case of withdrawals.

The Call for Abstracts is now closed and has been very successful with over one hundred high quality abstracts submitted and assessed on a double-blind review basis. We sincerely thank those of you who have submitted for the time and effort it took and appreciate your interest in our conference. The conference scientific committee and the reviewers focused on scientific quality, relevance to the conference theme and innovative research approaches, which resulted in a selection of highly relevant proposals of excellent quality. Abstracts that were considered closest to the conference theme are currently being assigned to sub-topics, tracks and sessions. As the final programme is in the works, please check back this page for further updates! 

The event will focus on three subtopics that correspond to the tracks of the Call for Papers: 

• Collective Intelligence for R&I Policy Making;
• Science as Collective Intelligence;
• Emerging practices and cultures in future-oriented collective intelligence.

The programme will consist of keynotes, parallel sessions with paper presentations and interactive formats.
Selected papers will be published in the international bi-monthly Foresight journal by Emerald Publishing. 

If you have any questions, please contact us at futures4europe@ait.ac.at 

The Conference is organised by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, as part of the Eye of Europe project, which envisions a more cohesive and influential R&I foresight community that contributes significantly, as collective intelligence, to shaping and guiding policy decisions. The project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon Europe Research Programme under Grant Agreement n°101131738. 

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MUSAE aims to set up a Human-Centred Factory Model, based on the Design Future Art-driven (DFA) method, and integrate it into a (European) Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) network, to support companies in guiding strategic digital technology innovation and address future challenges in the food domain to improve people and planet wellbeing. 

MUSAE will establish a deep connection with the S+T+ARTS ecosystem, bringing together expertise in design, art, nutrition and wellbeing, and human-machine interaction. MUSAE will run 20 S+T+ARTS residencies involving 20 artists and 10 tech companies working with 3 main technologies – Artificial Intelligence, Wearables, and Robotics – to envision 10 future scenarios for technologies application and design 10 prototypes, thus opening up new markets and innovations. To validate replicability, MUSAE will set up and activate one Factory within the DIH partner and create the Factory Model Pack and the Label that will allow other DIHs to adopt it.