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 Sunday with free admission.
The meeting place for architecture, design and crafts
The meeting place for architecture, design and crafts
The exhibition Des&Do! 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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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.
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Architecture in focus
This autumn, Form/Design Center, together with Sveriges Arkitekter, is organizing an extensive architecture program with several highlights. For the seventh year in a row, The Architecture Day will take place, featuring exploratory discussions and lectures on architecture in a changing world. Alongside this, the exhibition "The Great Repair Moves North" will be inaugurated in collaboration with ARCH+, accompanied by a comprehensive program. The same week, Open Architecture Studio returns, where Malmö's architects will open their doors for two days to showcase ongoing projects.
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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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Tidskriftscafé
Our 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.
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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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Southern Sweden Design Days 2025
1 Nov 2024 – 15 jan 2025
OPEN CALL
Take the chance to be part of Southern Sweden Design Days 2025! Register your participation between 1 November and 15 January and take part in the design festival on 22–25 May. Through your participation, you will have the opportunity to reach a wide audience through exciting program activities.
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Going Pro
Open Call
GOING PRO is a business development program where ten motivated designers are given the opportunity to take the next step in their creative entrepreneurship. Through participation in the program, the designers will also be able to present their work in a group exhibition at Southern Sweden Design Days’ ’Main location’. Apply before 2 December 2024.
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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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