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, Wednesday to Sunday with free admission.
The meeting place for architecture, design and crafts
The meeting place for architecture, design and crafts
Maya Strandberg in the exhibition I am sitting here. Are you sitting here too? 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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Form/Design Center's shop
The shop, located on the first floor and available as a web shop, offers a curated collection of design and crafts. When you shop in our store, you support both local designers and Form/Design Center's operations. All income from the store contributes to creating an open meeting place with exhibitions, program and development projects within architecture, design and crafts.
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Magazine Café
The Form/Design Center café is located on the first floor of the building. We provide a place to sit in peace and quiet and read magazines, daydream, meet a friend or sit and work for a while. The café offers filter coffee/tea, simple sandwiches, buns and biscuits, most of which we bake ourselves.
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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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Open Call: Southern Sweden Design Days 2024
Designfestival
Between 1 November–15 January, it is possible to register to participate in Southern Sweden Design Days 2024. Participants can take part from any location in Malmö or as part of the festival's Main location, Lokstallarna in Kirseberg.
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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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