Visions of the Future Conference organized in partnership with MUDE Museu do Design

Lusófona University and FilmEU collaborated with MUDE – Museum of Design to organise the Visions of the Future conference, with the support of Lisbon City Council.

This event was part of the collaborative research project Visions of the Future, which explores the role of visual communication during the Iberian Peninsula’s transition to democracy in the late 20th century. The initiative is a pilot project of the Iberian Design Archives, a network of research centres and institutions dedicated to fostering shared studies on visual culture in Portugal and Spain. The project is hosted by DESIGN ID (Lusófona University, Lisbon) and BAU Research (BAU, Centro Universitario de Artes y Diseño de Barcelona).

The conference took place at the newly reopened MUDE, gathering around 70 participants. The keynote speakers included:

• Germán Labrador – A Double-Bind Transition: The Funding of Iberian Contemporary Democracies and their Aesthetics to Come.
• Gustavo Quiroga – Archivos y colecciones de Diseño: objetualidad y pensamiento identitario.
• Catarina Simão – Ser português (e ser portuguesa) e outros clichés nacionalistas em 'Não visitem a sala colonial'.

The collaboration between Lusófona University, FilmEU, and MUDE highlights the commitment to studying and preserving design and visual communication while fostering discussions on the graphic and political narratives that have shaped Iberian contemporary history.