About the conference

More than three years ago (it was 2018), when we presented our candidacy to host the Cumulus Conference in Sapienza, our first effort was to set up a Conference Theme. The duty was not simple since we wanted to avoid any naïve, fashionable or captivating topic. We were in search of a theme which is appropriate to the times, the context and moreover, to the Cumulus’s community. Our starting point was to consider what Cumulus meant and still means, not only for us, but within the worldwide design community. Looking back in the history of Cumulus, we found an interesting picture in its name: in fact, “cumulus” is the English name of a specific kind of clouds and comes from a Latin word that means "heap, pile, mass". Therefore, the word Cumulus is refereed, at the same time, to those big clouds that appear in the sky every time in different forms and always in constant change, as well as it is referred to a set of singular elements that make up a unit together. As a consequence, Cumulus efficiently describes the idea of a set of many singularities that meet, settle and become each time a new and different entity.