"We are the Rain. Epistemic Design where there is no Outside". Opening Keynote — Design Principles & Practices Conference 2026.

I will deliver the opening keynote at the Design Principles & Practices Conference 2026, taking place 25–27 February 2026 at Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Architecture, and online:

We are the Rain. Epistemic Design where there is no Outside.

Design Principles & Practices is an international, peer-reviewed conference series focused on critical, theoretical, and practice-based research in design and related fields. The 2026 edition is organised around the theme “Design Across Time.”

The conference will be held in a hybrid format (on-site and virtual).

Conference information, programme, and registration:https://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2026-conference

Venue: Sapienza University of Rome Faculty of Architecture Via Antonio Gramsci 53, Rome, Italy.

This opening keynote contributes to an ongoing body of research and practice on epistemic design — a field that investigates how design operates as a mode of knowledge production in conditions where problems cannot yet be fully defined through conceptual devices .