Welcome to Form/Design Center – the meeting place for architecture, design and crafts. Experience exhibitions, seminars, workshops and guided tours. Visit the shop or have coffee in our magazine café. The house is open to everyone, Tuesday to Saturday with free admission.
The meeting place for architecture, design and crafts
The meeting place for architecture, design and crafts
The exhibition Plastic Perspectives on floor 2
Exhibitions
With a focus on the present and the future, our exhibition program aims to make knowledge available and inspiring, but also to provoke conversations about current issues within architecture, design and crafts.
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Program
Every year, Form/Design Center arranges extensive program activities, both based on the exhibitions and on the ongoing cultural and social debate. Through screenings, workshops, lectures and talks, we offer the audience a further in-depth study that promotes dialogue and increased participation.
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Southern Sweden Design Days 2025
22 may 2025 – 25 may 2025
Design festival
Form/Design Center organises Southern Sweden Design Days for the fifth year in a row. For four days, Malmö will be filled with exhibitions, seminars, workshops, and festivities at various locations across the city. Explore the program with over 160 program activities, 450 participants, and 80 locations to experience in Malmö during the festival days!
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Industry development
Form/Design Center continuously focuses on creating new opportunities for professional practitioners in architecture, design and crafts. With formats such as Business speed dating and mentoring programs, we contribute to skill development and business networks that pave the way for new collaborations between designers and companies. In 2019, Sveriges Arkitekter established its first regional office outside Stockholm at Form/Design Center in Malmö.
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REPORT 2025: THE DESIGN INDUSTRY IN SWEDEN
Industry development
Form/Design Center has produced a unique report, mapping over 20,300 active design companies. This is the first report of its kind, aiming to serve as a starting point for continuously tracking the development of the Swedish design industry, its impact on other sectors, and society at large.
Read the report here (in Swedish)
Perspectives on Form/Design Center
Play
Industry development
The creative industries are becoming a key sector for Sweden, with significant potential for growth, innovation, export, and the green transition. Form/Design Center is engaged in a long-term industry development initiative to strengthen opportunities for professionals in architecture, design, and crafts. Watch a short film highlighting the importance of this work.
Watch here (In Swedish)
Form/Design Center's shop
In our shop you'll find books on architecture, design and crafts as well as a selected range of locally produced design and craft pieces. Form/Design Center collaborates with the Stockholm-based art bookstore Konst-ig to offer a specialised bookstore in our shop. In the shop you'll also find interior pieces, glass, jewellery, toys, accessories and posters.
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PLAY
Play is Form/Design Center's digital platform for knowledge sharing and inspiration. Here you will find our live broadcast or recorded seminars, guided tours of exhibitions and films from projects in architecture, design and crafts.
Watch here
Children and Young People
Form/Design Center offer a wide variety of activities for the whole family. Go on a treasure hunt and explore our exhibitions! Try different techniques in our drop-in workshop for children of all ages. Take part in our digital workshops and create together with the children at home.
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Sustainable development
Form/Design Center works long-term with sustainability within designed living environment. Through special expertise and a wide network of contacts, we highlight the subject from several different perspectives. With a focus on cross-sectoral collaboration, our development projects contribute with forward-looking knowledge that strengthens the conditions for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Skåne's unique position as part of a transnational region also enables valuable international exchanges where we, as a node, play an important role in the forthcoming transition.
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Schools
Form/Design Center's pedagogical design program has been developed with the aim of giving children and young people insight into and knowledge about sustainable consumption and production – to show that design is not just about the surface but can also make a difference.
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