Design, Technology and Social Research in Times of War and Repression

Frontline Features is an international conference exploring how design, technology, and social research operate under conditions of war, repression, and forced displacement.

Registration required.

Bringing together designers, engineers, artists, researchers, activists and media practitioners, the conference creates a space for dialogue across disciplines that are rarely in direct conversation, yet increasingly entangled in contexts of crisis.

The title refers to the “frontline” not only as a site of conflict, but as a threshold — a space between safety and exposure, theory and practice, visibility and risk. In these conditions, knowledge is not neutral: it is produced under pressure, shaped by urgency, and often inseparable from questions of ethics, security, and survival.

The conference focuses on practices emerging from such contexts — including digital infrastructures, visual communication, artistic research, and collective forms of knowledge production developed in exile or under authoritarian regimes.

Date: 17.06.2026
Duration: one day
Format: offline, online
Language: English

More information and the programme can be found here.