THE ART OF LIVING
2028 Design & Interiors
Online - Tuesday, July 14th
New York 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
West Coast 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
London 16:00 – 17:45
Paris 17:00 – 18:45
General admission $350 per person
Current Trend Union subscribers $195 per person (Please contact your agent for your discount code)
Bookings of 4+ can get 20% off the General Admission rate
For special Trend Union book Clients please get in touch with ticketsnyc@edelkoort.com.
Program EDT Times
11:00 AM – 11:05 AM Welcome
11:05 AM – 11:20 AM INNER CHILD: Playing with Design
11:20 AM – 12:20 PM THE ART OF LIVING: 2028 Design & Interiors
12:20 PM – 12:45 PM Q&A with Li
12:45 PM Approximate end
THE ART OF LIVING: 2028 Design & Interiors
Recently the language of art and design has become similar; two domains proposing similar points of view of our current chaotic and fearful lives. Both are concerned with the planet and its people, its fluidity and diversity, its romantic brutalism, and its ruins to be picked up as valuable resources for creation. Both insist on telling stories but also try to seek refuge in the abstraction of modernism. Making sense of the present while opening up to possible futures.
The art of living becomes the new goal, profiting from personal choices and indulging in strange combinations, exalting in unique finds, mixing old and new, making the most of all moments. A common ground for a culture that seeks to appease and ground people, healing as a prerequisite for a better existence, creating a safer place. A fascination with aesthetics as a moral medication that allows us to design and communicate, transforming consumers into collectors, and raising awareness about the benefit of beauty.
— L.E.
Lidewij Edelkoort is arguably the world's most renowned trend forecaster, working in industries from fashion to food, design, architecture, tech, communication, automotive and retail. Founded in 1986, her company Trend Union produces trend tools for strategists, designers and marketers at brands from Zara to Prada. She is also a publisher, humanitarian, educator and exhibition curator. Edelkoort has been named one of the Most Influential People in Fashion and one of the Most Influential People in Design. Written in 2014, her much-talked about ANTI_FASHION Manifesto was the first to raise awareness about the shifts and upheavals currently experienced in the global fashion industry. From 1998-2008 she was Chairwoman of Design Academy Eindhoven before moving to New York from 2015-2020 where she was Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons, establishing an MFA Textile masters and New York Textile Month. In 2020, in response to the covid-19 pandemic, she co-founded the World Hope Forum as a platform to inspire the creative community to rebuild a better society. Edelkoort's latest publications include Proud South (2020), Uxua Utopia (2022), and Proud South Craft (2025), each of which celebrate the creative talent of the Global South.