The lecture “Designing for the living web”, by Delphine Volkaert, proposes existential questions about the interrelation between design and the Internet. She asks what would happen if the web wasn’t a place we design for but a medium we design with. If it were a space that listens, responds, remembers, and occasionally drifts off script.
She also asks what happens when digital experiences carry presence and intent, when identity shifts in real time, and how that can change the way we perceive a brand today. This talk offers a moment to pause, a reminder that the web is not static but alive, restless, and open to endless possibilities.
About Delphine Volkaert
Delphine Volkaert is a Senior Digital Designer at Base Design Brussels, an international network of creative studios. After graduating from La Cambre, she has spent ten years exploring how brands behave and evolve online. Her work begins with clear, conceptual ideas that she develops into responsive and dynamic digital systems. She is driven by the openness of the digital realm, a space where identity can constantly shift, reinvent itself, and move beyond fixed forms.
Base Design is a company of cultures working across Brussels, New York, Geneva, Melbourne, Saigon, and Volkaert’s Digital studio. Founded in the early ’90s, Base continues to evolve through collaboration. Today, the group is led by partners across all studios, shaping a model that grows through difference rather than duplication.
