The New Design Congress
<p>The New Design Congress is an independent research and strategy organization based in Berlin, Germany. By approaching all infrastructure as power and technologies as societal accelerants, they develop unique understandings of the relationships between societies and their technologies.</p> <p>Amid increasing global inequities, instabilities, and uncertainties, the New Design Congress confronts our unsettled future by using "alternative forking" to expose the gap between society’s flawed understanding of what appears to be happening in today’s digital systems and what is actually happening. As a theory of change, alternative forking takes problems of the present, finds underexplored historical and contemporary alternatives, and develops real-world, applicable forks. The New Design Congress combines a decade of institutional understanding of digital security, systems theory, and strategic thinking with a participatory and international congress of collaborators drawn from diverse regions, cultures, and subcultures.</p>
Series-editor: Cade Diehm