How do you want the future to look and feel like? Which values is it based on? How do we relate to each other and the technologically enhanced environment? Which aspects of our contemporary life have to be thought differently? And how can we use the dynamics of change to craft an environmentally and socially sustainable world?

As disruptivity is used as both a metaphor and a format of collaborative knowledge production in the Ars Electronica Garden Vorarlberg, the week links up various locations in Dornbirn and combines diverse formats (workshops, interventions and a symposium) to bring together varying people, perspectives and approaches.

It starts with a series of workshops in which participants can explore the topic of change in a variety of ways. Parallelly, playful interventions in Dornbirn highlight the friction zones between public and private spaces, whereby digital architectures come into view just as much as physical spatial constellations and psychogeographies.

The symposium at the Vorarlberg Museum brings together the perspectives of pioneers of change and the civil society with those of designers and artists. It is dedicated to discussing the question if and how design can contribute to societal change towards more ecologically and socially sustainable lifestyles and forms of living and provides the framework to discuss and reflect on the approaches, findings, interventions and models developed throughout the week by viewing them through different theoretical lenses that provide the basis for developing a trans-disciplinary approach to transformative design