In February 2027, Beatrice Fontana and Antonio Scarponi, co-founders of the Institute for Spatial Thinking, will lead Spatial Agency: Before / Towards Form at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), within the Winter School programme. The course brings into educational practice the understanding of spatial thinking, an epistemic field of practice concerned with the conditions through which spatial relations emerge, stabilise and produce consequences. Design participates in the

Institute for Spatial Thinking co-founder Antonio Scarponi will present research on Epistemic Design, Spatial Thinking and DEMA at DxS Conference 2026 in Rome.

Beatrice Fontana and Antonio Scarponi joined Markus Schaefer and Philipp Meier at gap’z in Zurich to discuss alternative ways of thinking about and acting within the city.