Sessions & Tracks

International Conference @ NIFT Chennai

Theme for the Conference

Designing the Future: Creativity, Inclusion & Technology in Youth Innovation

Sub-Themes / Tracks

Focus: Materials, spaces, bodies, emotions, lifestyle, habitats, adaptive design.

Plenary Concepts / Titles
  1. Living Systems: Designing Materials, Fashion & Spaces That Adapt, Feel and Respond
    Integrating smart materials + interactive textiles + responsive interiors.
  2. The Human-Experience Ecosystem: Clothing, Objects & Spaces for Wellbeing
    How fashion, interiors, and materials shape emotional and sensory experiences.
  3. Regenerative Futures: Circular Aesthetics in Fabrics, Fashion & Built Environments
    Regeneration across clothing, interiors, and materials.
  4. Emotive Design: From Wearable Narratives to Immersive Spatial Storytelling
    Blending identity, interiors, sensory design, and craft.
  5. Beyond Surfaces: Bio-Fabrics, Hybrid Spaces & the Anatomy of Future Lifestyle Design
    A cross-domain perspective for youth innovators.

Focus: AI, robotics, digital couture, XR, spatial computing, intelligent automation.

Plenary Concepts / Titles
  1. Hybrid Intelligence in Design: Co-Creating Futures with Machines
    Youth-led AI collaborations for meaningful creativity.
  2. From Nano to Neural: Material Computing, Smart Fabrics & Intelligent Built Worlds
    AI-infused materials + robotically adaptive structures.
  3. Digital Couture & Spatial Computing: Designing the Phygital Human Experience
    Metaverse fashion + digital interiors + XR environments.
  4. Robotics for Humanity: Machines That Empower, Heal & Enhance Daily Living
    Assistive robotics blended with design ethics.
  5. The Creative Algorithm: Data-Driven Aesthetics Across Fashion, Architecture & Material Science
    AI as co-designer across multiple creative sectors.

Focus: Equity, belonging, community-cantered design, accessibility, design justice.

Plenary Concepts / Titles
  1. Designing Belonging: Inclusive Futures for Every Body, Community & Culture
    Cross-disciplinary equity: fashion + interiors + public systems.
  2. Compassionate Innovation: Ethics, Care & Youth-led Social Impact
    Human-first systems and technologies.
  3. Universal Design 3.0: Accessibility in Fashion, Spaces & Intelligent Technologies
    Bringing adaptive fashion + inclusive architecture + accessible tech.
  4. Design for the Margins: Creative Disruption for Public Good
    Youth as drivers of social innovation.
  5. Empathy Engines: Creativity as a Tool for Collective Transformation
    Design methodologies for community-centric problem-solving.