Pressmeddelande -
Konstfack gigs during Stockholm Design Week
Are you interested in the ideas and expression of tomorrow’s designers and artists? Welcome to Konstfack at Telefonplan, to Stockholm Furniture Fair and to Sergels Torg during Stockholm Design Week. We’re showing what eating, design, artistic education and a sustainable future have in common through multiple exhibitions and a panel discussion.
At Konstfack 4–8 February, 12–6 pm, the following exhibitions are open:
Degrees of a School Lunch 2060, in collaboration with Beteendelabbet and WWF
Products for Eating and Cooking, in dialogue with young users with special needs, a collaboration with Kung Saga
Prolonging the life span of the Better Shelter modules, creating safer, more dignified living conditions for displaced people worldwide
Interiors, furniture & fabrication in relation to society, history and the art of inhabiting spaces
The Black Beach REMIX, a magazine inspired by an artistic research project
The Space as Luminaire, on light and materiality
Air ship, in collaboration with Oceansky cruises
On Wednesday 5 February, 2–4 pm in Svarta Havet, an interdisciplinary food for thought panel addresses:
- imagining and preparing for the future through foresight and speculative design
- where culinary arts and design meet and how to inspire sustainable actions
- experimental preservation and archive studies creating new narratives
Participants:
Ulrika Backlund, project manager Innovation & Sustainable Diets at WWF
Mischa Billing, sommelier and jury member of Sweden's Master Chef
Ernesto Garcia, interior architect, furniture designer and researcher
Joakim Skog, strategic area lead for future innovations at Vinnova
Kajsa Wallin Lindström, service designer and co-founder of Beteendelabbet
Moderated by Jenny Althoff, senior lecturer in design and pro-vice-chancellor at Konstfack. After the discussion, official opening of student exhibitions and mingle starting at 4 pm.
Outside Konstfack:
Stockholm Furniture Fair, stand C01:40, Experimental Preservation: Reimagining Henriksberg
Sergels torg, students interpret the theme "reflection and the location Plattan, Sergels torg" in textile constructions
Welcome!
Ämnen
Konstfack is Sweden’s largest university for arts, crafts and design. Since 1844, we have educated a diverse range of professionals within these fields as well as art and sloyd teachers. We conduct both artistic and scientific education/research and currently have about 1000 students and 200 employees. www.konstfack.se
