Design for Life

Dassault Systèmes invites you to a series of talks around sustainable design and innovation, developed in collaboration with Dezeen. Design for Life is a collaboration between Dezeen and Dassault Systèmes focusing on how science and technology can empower designers to build a better, more sustainable world. After a lively inaugural session, we’ll deep dive into the world of 6 designers and creatives, all working with science and technology to harness sustainable change in their industries.

How can science empower designers to build a more sustainable world?

Marcus Fairs

Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Dezeen

Anne Asensio

Vice President Design Experience, Dassault Systèmes

Arthur Mamou-Mani

Founder of Mamou-Mani Architects

Arthur Mamou-Mani, Anne Asensio, and Marcus Fairs share their vision on how technologies can foster human and sustainable innovation, and support designers' creativity.

Designers and creatives making sustainable change

Julia Koerner

Julia Koerner Design

Julia's work blurs the lines between architecture, fashion and product design, with a particular emphasis on 3D printing and material innovation.

Michael Pawlyn

Exploration Architecture

With Exploration Architecture, Michael focuses on regenerative design approaches that go beyond conventional sustainable design.

Nassia Inglessis

Studio INI

Nassia Inglessis, is an artist, engineer and designer. She founded Studio INI, an experimental practice that couples rigorous design and scientific research with public engagement in immersive and experiential installations.

Arthur Mamou-Mani

Mamou-Mani Architects

Mamou-Mani Architects specializes in digitally designed and fabricated architecture. The practice believes in innovation, craft and evolving architecture’s role in society by utilizing new technologies.

Thierry Metroz

DS Automobiles

Always on the lookout for innovative solutions, Thierry continuously engages and experiments with new technologies, materials, methods, all in keeping with French style as he builds the automotive DS brand.

Live talk on architecture, technology and nature

In this panel discussion hosted by Dezeen, architect Arthur Mamou-Mani, Studio INI founder Nassia Inglessis and Exploration Architecture founder Michael Pawlyn will discuss how technology and nature feature in their work, and how these themes will feature in the future of architecture and design. The panellists, who have each been featured in an instalment of Dezeen and Dassault Systèmes' Design for Life video series, will discuss how the use of technology can help us create buildings that bring us closer to nature, how experimental projects can drive change in the wider design industry, and how the new accessibility of powerful design software is impacting architecture and sustainability.

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