Industry Development

Industry Development

Form/Design Center continuously focuses on creating new opportunities for professional practitioners in architecture, design and crafts by promoting cooperation, development and sustainable growth regionally, nationally and internationally.

Program

Southern Sweden Design Days 2025

22 may 2025 – 25 may 2025
Design festival

22–25 May 2025, Form/Design Center will organize 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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slow down

Open Call: Slow Down Exhibition

Apply before 06 may 2025
Open call
Group exhibition

The group exhibition represents a joint effort between Copenhagen Architecture Biennale and Form/Design Center, covering two venues — Halmtorvet 27 in Copenhagen and the Form/Design Center in Malmö — thereby deepening the exploration of the theme 'Slow Down'.

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Spok hantverkarna

SPOK x Hantverkarna Stockholm

collaboration project

SPOK and Hantverkarna Stockholm have launched a new collaboration where six prominent designers and six highly skilled craftspeople come together to create new objects. The results will be showcased in a group exhibition during Stockholm Craft Week later this autumn. 

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Branschmöte

INDUSTRY MEETING: A NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DESIGN PROFESSIONALS

25 NOV 2024
Play

Watch an industry meeting from 25 november where talk about the ongoing work with a national association for professional designers. Hear Daniel Byström talk about the project of the national mapping of design companies that has been initiated to provide an overall picture of the industry. Also listen to Johanna Nylander from theSwedish Games Industry who is leading a study on better statistics for cultural and creative industries on behalf of the Swedish government. 

(English subtitles will be added soon)

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Kajsa och Karin Formgivarpodden

Formgivarpodden

Podcast

In Formgivarpodden – Sweden's only podcast about life as a designer, textile designer Karin Olu Lindgård talks with industrial designer Kajsa Willner about topics related to design, often together with invited guests.

Form/Design Center is a proud partner of season 6, which will be released in the fall of 2024.

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