The lecture introduces topics and discussion on what design experts can do to trigger, promote and support a new generation of collaborative organizations. The four lines of work entail very practical activities and require specific design knowledge developed through research and training. Design schools could make a major contribution in this.

The proposed theme Architecture Utopia Realism aims to further the on-going discussion on the relations of architecture with realism and utopia. In that sense, the speakers are invited to reflect on a multivalent relations of practices and theory of avant-garde, modern and contemporary architecture to concepts and issues, such as utopianism, realism, social realism, socialist realism, neo-realism, utopian realism, new realism and the like.