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Gothenburg Design Festival 22–27 October, 2018

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Next week, the second edition of Gothenburg Design Festival starts. Through workshops, talks, exhibitions and unexpected meetings, questions concerning the significance and importance of openness for design, art, crafts and architecture are addressed.

During an intense week, HDK – the Academy of Design and Crafts at the University of Gothenburg – in cooperation with several partners, invites the public to explore new ideas about learning, work and social equality. Artistic methods and processes are in focus. All interested are welcome to listen and talk to, as well as to conduct experiments with students, staff and national and international artists in order to reflect upon design as an agent of change in the creation of a socially sustainable future.

70 activities during a week. Here is a selection:

  • Privilege booth is a confession booth where doctoral student Hanna af Ekström offers a possibility of turning ”privilege shame” into ”privilege responsibility”.
  • The Internet as Playscape is a workshop for a group of invited children to build physical representations of the Internet together with child culture designer Anna Hydén.
  • Röhsska Museum for Design and Craft offers an “after-workshop” on design processes together with designer Fredrik Paulsen.
  • The workshop Textila rum (Textile rooms) at the culture center Blå Stället investigates how textile can be experienced and function as architecture.
  • Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun shares her practice of the Design of Experiences in the lecture I am a monster.
  • In the seminar Mapping Publics professor Markus Miessen reflects upon the need of redefining the human factor in the public sphere.
  • Postdoc Tintin Wulia offers a workshop in designing your own passport (time and place not set).   
  • Degree projects by Master and Bachelor students in design are presented (at HDK and the Gathenhielm House).
  • At Gothenburg Auction House six recently graduated crafts students exhibit and sell their work.

During the week there are several seminars on the theme of widening participation within the arts, such as Education for the Future?    

Through the interdisciplinary architecture studio Honey & Bunny, strategies for artists/designers/workers in crafts will be discussed.

A total of about 70 different events are held during the festival week. The entire program can be found at https://gothenburgdesignfestival.se

The festival is organized by HDK ­– Academy of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg – in collaboration with, among others, the cultural center Blå Stället, Kultur i Väst, Chalmers Architecture, Röhsska museum for Design and Crafts, Lindholmen Science Park, ICIA – Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art, IASPIS, Public Art Agency Sweden, City of Gothenburg among others. The festival is carried out with the economic support of the Trade and Industry Group at Goteborg&co.

Presentation for the press

Journalists are welcome to a presentation of the festival. After a tour of the activities in the HDK house, the presentation will end with the opening of the graduation exhibition in design, graduate level.

Date and time: Monday, October 22, 16: 00-17: 30
Location: HDK, Kristinelundsgatan 6-8, Gothenburg, Sweden

Sign up for the press meeting through communications officer Carina Krantz at carina.krantz@hdk.gu.se or +46 70 146 39 96.

For further information, contact:

Carina Krantz
Communications officer
email: carina.krantz@hdk.gu.se
telephone: +46 (0)31–786 65 21, +46 (0)70–146 39 96

University of Gothenburg is one of the major universities in Europe, with about 37 800 students and a staff of 6 200. Its eight faculties offer training in the Creative Arts, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Education, Information Technology, Business, Economics and Law, and Health Sciences. The University’s unique breadth in education and research provides an interdisciplinary environment conducive to collaboration with private enterprise and public institutions. The quality of the University has earned recognition in the form of numerous awards, including a Nobel Prize, and a steady stream of applicants at all levels.

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