11th edition - Me You Nous - Designing common ground What is design today? A table, a train, a cobot? "A community", replied the main curator of the 2019 Biennale, Lisa White. The key objective of the 11th Biennale is to uncovering the objects, expressions, systems

From 3rd to 5th April 2019, the Cité du design Saint-Etienne hosted the Pre-Summit Meeting of the Design Declaration at Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne. After the signature of the Design Declaration in Montreal in 2017, this working meeting in Saint-Etienne was a milestone on a path

BEDA 50th Celebration Insight Forum EU Design Future BEDA Insight Forum, a special forum to celebrate BEDA’s 50 Years Anniversary among member organisations, will take place on Thursday 16 May at the ADAM Brussels Design Museum. This symposium will give you an insight into the current position

EU Industry Days, first organised by the European Commission in 2017, is a high level inivation only initiative to engage with big and small business from priority sectors across Europe to engage, inspire and collaborate. In our first appearance at EU Industry Days, BEDA facilitated

The third EU Industry Days organised by the European Commission to discuss European industrial policy took place on 5-6 February, 2019 in Brussels. BEDA had the opportunity to participate in this by-invitation-only event and to organise the only stakeholder session on design, or all creative industries

In preparation for the new European Commission and the next framework programme, DG GROW has taken an initiative for a dialogue with cultural and creative sectors on industrial innovation. The first session with a group of 20 European experts took place on February 4, 2019 in

To celebrate BEDA 50 Years, BEDA will organise an International Design Policy Conference in Helsinki on 4-5 December, 2019 in collaboration with Ornamo Art and Design Finland and coinciding with Finland’s Presidency of the European Union. 4th December will be a pre-conference day to encourage stakeholder

The eighth edition of the international design competition jumpthegap®, promoted by Roca, is already running. The contest, with its more than 20,600 participants from 134 countries in its seven editions, has established itself as a global reference point in design contests. Within the Sustainable Development Goals

This year's exhibition for “ein&zwanzig”, the award for emerging talents, will be designed by Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto, founders of Studiopepe. Once again the German Design Council will pay homage to 21 outstanding design talents, giving the most promising emerging designers on

24 of Ireland’s top makers chosen for Design & Crafts Council of Ireland’s 2019-20 edition of PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection in special exhibition at the OPW’s Dublin Castle. PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection is the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland’s flagship biennial volume of the best of