“What should we teach today to matter in 20 years?”

To matter in 20 years, architecture and design may have to abandon the very roles they were built on. What if the architect is no longer defined by buildings, or the designer by products? This conversation pushes beyond disciplinary comfort zones, confronting the need to reinvent both the agents and the outcomes of these fields. From authors of objects to operators of systems, narratives, and power structures, architects and designers must acquire new forms of knowledge, tools, and positions. The question is no longer what we teach—but what we are willing to unlearn in order to remain relevant.

Curator and Moderator: Márton Pintér

Assistant Professor, Creative Strategist and a Renegade Architect. Curator of the Hungarian Pavilion’s exhibition titled “There is Nothing to See Here” at 19th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025. He is currently developing an educational guidebook “Advanced Architecture Agenda” to fundamentally reivent the obsolete architects’ persona.

Márton Pintér

Curator and Moderator

Susanne Lippitsch

Packaging Designer, SL DESIGN, Austria

Gerdi Papa

Architect, Product Designer and Academic, Barleti University, Albania

Michala Lipková

Product Designer and Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Design, STU in Bratislava, Slovakia

Mihnea Ghilduș

Product Designer and University Lecturer, Dizainar.ro / UAD Cluj-Napoca, Romania