Shaped by post-Cold War dynamics, we are within a global situation of indeterminacy and volatility that reflects on the transience of populations, natural resources, information, heritage and settlements. This is further reinforced by the inescapable repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has radically transformed our daily lives and led to a painstaking realization of our own ephemerality. The present moment forces us to rethink whether transience has to occupy a place as important as permanence does for the history of design. The conference intends to open up a space for discussions regarding the ways design and design history would deal/has dealt with transience and the lessons to be learnt from design’s encounter with transience. The concept note for the conference was visualized through the typographic stylization of a six piece “Burr Puzzle”, which represents the temporariness of achievement and success. The elements of typographic anatomies floating in a free white space expresses the incidental appearance of letterforms. A Burr Puzzle icon is also used at the poster as a “stamp” and is implemented at the various communication tolls of the conference such as web site and social media accounts.