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.

Southern Sweden Design Days

Design event

Project

Southern Sweden Design Days is an annual event that highlights and builds knowledge about design – focusing on sustainability, collaboration, development and innovation. For four days, a platform is created showcasing a full range of design disciplines through seminars, workshops, exhibitions and networking events. Southern Sweden Design Days invites visitors from all over the world to experience the best the creative southern Swedish design region has to offer.

Drawing Room

Local designers invite international designers they admire to an international meeting for graphic form in its broadest sense. A space for creativity, inspiration, international cultural exchange and knowledge. Drawing Room is a series of lectures and workshops that enable meetings between practitioners.

industry guide

Find your local designer

The industry guide is a platform that makes the southern Swedish form, architecture and design scene visible. Visit the guide to find your new collaborations, assignments and inspiration. Search for companies based on geography, industry affiliation, specialization or free text search - find them via map or AZ.

Open the industry guide

Going Pro 2023

Business development program

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’.

SPOK – FIND MANUFACTURERS

Production plattform

SPOK is a production platform that aims to gather and spread knowledge about local manufacturing possibilities ranging from handicrafts to industries. SPOK aims to promote the development of local production in Sweden and in the long term also more-local consumption.

Region Skånes design award 2023

Nominate before February 15!

Region Skåne's design award has been established to reward good design of goods, functions or services that are important for regional development. The award draws attention to the importance of the design discipline for sustainable development and highlights good examples that can inspire and motivate.

Mentor program 2022

Apply now

During 2022, a new round of Form/Design Center's mentoring program for designers operating in Skåne, Halland, Småland and Blekinge will be implemented.

Apply before 17 oct.

Årets formbärare 2021

Svensk Form Syd (Form/Design Center) has chosen Polymorf as 2021's "Formbärare" for meritorious efforts in Svensk Form's spirit in the form, design and architecture area!

Utställningen RISK på Form/Design Center

7 x konsthantverk

7 x konsthantverk is a series of seven exhibitions that will take place during the period 2020 – 2024 through a collaboration between Arts and Crafts Center and Form/Design Center. The project shows, through changing materials and expressions in the exhibitions, the breadth of the craft and the expertise that the craftsman possesses.

The Architecture Days

Each September, Architects Sweden and Form/Design Center organise the annual event The Architecture Days at Form/Design Center. The aim of the event is to advance and discuss architecture and the role of the architect going forward.

Funding and scholarships

Here you will find funding and scholarships for practitioners in form, design and architecture.

Play: film archive

Play is Form/Design Center's digital platform for knowledge sharing and inspiration. Explore the wide variety of films from our seminars, exhibitions and projects in architecture, design and crafts.

Play