CROSSTALKS offers a cross-disciplinary platform to researchers, thinkers and decision makers. They can meet in an open, yet compelling public space (by means of a conference, a workshop, a text or cyberspace) where in the first place a common ground is created through exchanging knowledge, visions and perspectives.

Since interfaces define the way we work, learn, live, communicate, play and love, CROSSTALKS invited an impressive range of academics, corporate leaders, designers, architects and artists to express their vision on the challenges of future interfaces. We didn’t need to verbalize whether we thought a crossdisciplinary approach should be taken up, but rather, as one of our editorial discussants described it: “ The question is no longer ‘Whether it should be done?’ the question is rather ‘What is the best way to do it’?”

A mind-broadening congress, workshops and a publication were devoted to the thematic of “Brave New Interfaces” last year. CROSSTALKS asked them to focus on the conditions, processes and methods that might lead to better design concepts and products and to formulate critical reflections on the systems and processes on which we depend so much today. The next step now is to share the most relevant insights, emerging common issues and the most provoking presentations with the rest of the world and instigate further debate.

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