2012 BDW
The seventh FREEDOM SQUARED Belgrade Design Week festival will be held from 4th to 10th of June 2012.
Their new 2012 BDW topic is - FREEDOM SQUARED - tailor made to achieve BDW's mission and vision of creating a society of knowledge in the South East European region of 100 million people between Vienna and Istanbul.
BDW's hearth piece, the world famous international creative conference, will run for 3 days from June 7th to June 9th, and this year again will cover almost all areas of the creative industries. Prior to the conference hours a panel segment under the name FREEDOM PANELS is dedicated to social engineering, sustainable development and new ideas related to the strategic planning of our society.
Such complex conference program is divided into six sections differentiated by topic, starting with the three distinct days in the official conference program.
When: June 7-9, 2012
For more information: http://www.belgradedesignweek.com/
Cities for All Helsinki 2012
Cities for All Helsinki Conference and Exhibition 24 May 2012
The conference creates a comprehensive Design for All experience, as well as provides latest information, inspiration and enthusiasm in the fields of freedom from barriers and accessibility. The event itself forms a pilot example of a conference executed with easy access for all.
The Cities for All Helsinki conference is organised in conjunction with the General Assembly meeting of the Design for All Europe EIDD organisation. The conference will also be accompanied by an exhibition of invited designers of Finnish solutions. The exhibition is designed with a view to an international tour.
The conference is intended for construction industry professionals, municipal and private sector building contractors, city and company executives, as well as developers and students.
When: 24 May 2012
Where: Helsinki Music Centre
For more information: http://www.ornamo.fi/citiesforallhelsinki/
Cities for All Helsinki 2012 CALL FOR EXHIBITORS
Cities for All Helsinki Exhibition is seeking a selection of the most interesting Design for All solutions in the areas of built environment, product design and service design.
Please send your proposals no later than 30th November 2011 to the email address
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Accepted proposals to the exhibition will cost € 2000/ case.
Find proposal form from Cities for All Helsinki 2012 website:
http://www.ornamo.fi/citiesforallhelsinki/
Norway's Design Day 2012
Design Day 2012
Mark the date 18th April 2012! This is when we open the doors to our national Design Day - Norway's largest network arena for the business and design community.
The Design Day is Norway's main event focusing on design in a business perspective. It will be a full day (and night) with international speakers and a highlight on Norwegian design projects receiving the Award for Design Excellence. This is The Day for inspiration, celebration and networking.Program and registration will be published in January 2012. The event will mainly be in Norwegian, partly in English.
When: 18 April 2012
Time: 11.00am - 1am
Where: DogA Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture, Hausmanns gt 16 in Oslo
For more information: http://www.norskdesign.no/2012/category8811.html
Design Means Business
Design Means Business’ is a national conference designed to communicate and advance the value and benefits of design to businesses and the wider community.
Over two days, the conference aims to inspire and support businesses to engage with design practices and practitioners through passionate keynote speakers and interactive Workshops and Master classes.
Speakers include senior designers from major industrial companies, top design agencies and leading practitioners who share their experiences of design and how it has impacted the bottom line.
Featured here are details of the 2012 conference as well as keynote presentations and design masterclasses from the 2011 conference.
When: Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st March 2012
Time: not mentioned yet
Where: The Northern Design Centre, Gateshead
For more information: http://www.
MCBW 2012
Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW) will be the special event in the state capital of Bavaria to present multifaceted, innovative design activities, to give momentum to interdisciplinary design discourse and to bring together people in the creative and economic sectors from around the world. MCBW will serve as a platform for fostering international partnerships and demonstrating the business potential of the state of Bavaria and of the partners participating.
When: 7 to 12 February 2012
Where: Munich
For more information: http://mcbw.de/index.php/en/
Download English brochure: click here
European Conference Paris
APCI is organizing its 9th international conference on the challenges of design support in Europe.
Small Actions / Big Picture / Solid Change
In the light of the social and economical situation, we are building an even more exiting programme for this year.
The first day of the conference will focus on the concrete support to integrating design in SMEs. We won’t discuss the programmes, but the day to day delivery and management of design advise to businesses. How is it done, monitored, evaluated ? We aim at gathering both advisors and some businesses to discuss openly the methodologies.
As usual, the second day opens up to a bigger picture. A lot has happened recently: Fukushima, the endless meltdown of the greek economy, the Arab revolutions etc. in addition to the stronger confirmation that the global warming is not a hypothesis, but an issue.
What all these things have in common is that they have systemic consequences: on energy management, the economy, our housing and food. There has been a time where the design profession was claiming that these systems should be looked as designed: organisation and ethics (their purpose, their governance) had to be mixed. Does the design profession has something big to claim again ? After all, isn’t design becoming a “buzzword”, used by more and more people who neither practice nor prescribe it ? But can the design discipline learn from some projects that are effective at addressing societal issues, as if they had been designed tacitly ? We will bring on the stage surprising speakers, with effective experience too share with us.
When: Monday 9 & Tuesday 10 January 2012
Where: Auditorium, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris
For more information: http://www.weezevent.com/EuropeanConference
BEDA Members discount rate: BEDA Members can get a discount of 140€ off the full rate of 540€. To get your discount code please email BEDA Administrator
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Congratulations to Vesna Brekalo
Vesna Brekalo of DOS, Slovenia and member of BEDA has been appointed a vice president of the Icograda Executive Board.
Delegates to the Icograda General Assembly in Taipei elected an historic Executive Board to lead the Council in its 50 anniversary term. Representing more than 200 organisations in 67 countries globally, the 10 person board will be led by Leimei Julia Chiu (Japan), who becomes Icograda’s first female President. For the first time in Icograda’s almost 50 year history, the board includes a majority of women members.
Read more here: http://www.icograda.org/news/year/2011_news/articles2255.htm
The BCN Design Week 2011, organised by BCD Barcelona Design Centre, closed last October 21 having achieved a considerable success, attracting over two thousand visitors from 15 different countries. The excellent results as regards participation, the high standard of the speakers and – particularly – the positive response and satisfaction shown by those attending, all helped to consolidate this international congress as a major event on the international calendar for promoting and discussing design.
This new edition of BCN Design Week focused on the relationship between knowledge, innovation, opportunities and progress, key concepts of the European Innovation Policy, the Innovation Union, a key initiative of the of the 2020 strategy.
Read more click here
BDW becomes a member of BEDA
BDW becomes a member of Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA)
Belgrade Design Week is the first festival of this kind in the entire SEE region to acquire BEDA's membership, among more than forty design associations, regional and national design promotion centers and councils, as well as design education institutions.
Read more in their latest newsletter click here
Dutch Design Week 2011
The city of Eindhoven will for nine full days completely be dedicated to design. The largest design event in the Netherlands offers a platform to established design bureaus, well-known designers, talented upcoming designers and recently graduated designers.
All possible aspects of contemporary Dutch design will be represented in a great many large and small venues all over the city: from process to product, from industrial design to applied art.
DDW 2011 targets the public at large alongside designers, companies and educational institutes. The broad scope and high degree of accessibility ensure a lasting relationship between the professionals themselves and between professionals and a wide audience.
When: 22-30 October 2011
Where: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
For more information: http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl
