Design in the Digital Era: the Balance Between Technology, Creativity and Culture

With the Cumulus vision to actively promote exchange of knowledge and design experience on a global and interdisciplinary scale,three Russian schools from St.Petersburg and Moscow — HSE Art and Design School (HSE University), St. Petersburg University, and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University have joined their efforts to host an online conference in collaboration with Cumulus. "Design: Vertical and Horizontal Growth" aims to encourage the Cumulus community to express their opinions on the role of design as a humanizing practice in the context of multidirectional development complicated by the COVID pandemic. The three-day conference was held from 28 to 30 October 2020. Each day has covered one of the conference’s tracks: Future Human, Creative Industry, Inter-action.