The German Federal Ecodesign Award is looking for products, services and concepts that convince through design quality and ecological credibility.

Projects can be submitted from January 15 to April 9, 2018 online (in German language) via: bundespreis-ecodesign.de

The exhibition celebrates not just chart-topping hits – German Schlager as well as offbeat and forgotten musical offerings await your (re)discovery. The heart of the exhibition is the Main Road, which presents the cultural background to the respective eras of pop. The Sound Lounge invites you to listen and relax. Sixty songs from Marlene Dietrich to Pur complement the Main Road audio experience. In the Backstage area, a selection of posters and record and CD covers brings old memories vividly back to life.

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»Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today« is the first exhibition to give a comprehensive overview of the design history of the nightclub, examining its cultural context. Featuring films and vintage photographs, posters, flyers and fashion, the exhibition incorporates music, light and spatial installations to take visitors on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour and subcultures – always in search of the night that never ends.

Photo: Calvin Klein Party, 1978 © Hasse Persson

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In the Bauhaus-Archiv’s empty exhibition galleries freed from all subsequently added architectural elements, you can experience the light-filled original state of this building designed by Walter Gropius and opened in 1979. Through a sound installation by the artists Bill Dietz and Janina Janke, visitors can performatively explore fundamental key texts and social issues examined by Bauhaus architects while contributing to the polyphony of the artwork which can be heard in the exhibition galleries as well as outside the building. For further information look up: bauhaus.de

Philipp Weber’s work is coined by a very unique approach towards materials and traditional crafting techniques. In »A Strange Symphony« the designer focuses and analyses the process of manufacturing glass. Particularly inspired was Weber by the rhythm of the glassmaker and the almost musical interaction with the viscous material. His glassmaker trumpet is based on the blowpipe – the main tool of manufacturing glass – which is here transformed from a crafting into a musical instrument. In »From Below« the designer deconstructs the industrial process of producing coke and gives it a new meaning by approaching the material from a more technical perspective.

Philipp Weber graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven and Berlin University of the Arts. His work has received numerous prizes and has been exhibited internationally.»A Strange Symphony« was also included into the collection of the Shanghai Museum of Glass and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Lausanne.

Opening:
March 28, from 6 pm

Opening Times:
March 29 – April 18, 2018
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

The Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin is hosting a panel discussion on re-thinking craftsmanship in the modern and digital age.

Speakers:

Claudia Banz, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Tulga Beyerle, Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden
chmara.rosinke, Wien, Berlin
SHAPES iN PLAY, Berlin
Philip Weber, Berlin

Moderation:

Thomas Geisler, Werkraum Bregenzerwald

Location:

Kunstgewerbemuseum am Kulturforum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

On April 12, at 8pm, the bookshop »Der Zauberberg« will receive Erik Spiekermann as guest in their talk-series »Zauberberggespräch«. The Typographer will talk about his philosophy of fonts and design and give insights into his working processes and his international collaborations. The entrance fee is 5 euros. Please register via mail: info@zauberberg.eu

Location:
Buchhandlung Der Zauberberg
Bundesallee 133
12161 Berlin Friedenau

The event will be held in German.

For the 13th time this year, international creatives from the design, art, performance, architecture and technology industries will come together for the see-Conference in Wiesbaden, on April 21, 2018.

This year's speakers include Mikael Colville-Andersen (Copenhagenize), FIELD (Studio for Digital Art), Anna Ginsburg (designer and entertainer), Stefan Kaegi (Rimini-Protokoll), Anna Heringer (architecture), Patrice Vermette (Production Designer, e.g. „Arrival"), Vermibus (Artist and adbuster) und Duncan Clark (Flourish).

The main topics at the see-Conference will be the visualization of information and everything there is to know about sustainable concepts – from bicyle-friendly city planning to integral art & brand projects.

Kicking off the conference, there will be a Future Slam at Museum Wiesbaden with lectures on April 18, 2018. Diving deeper into the topics of the conference, see-Camp will invite participants to discussions, workshops and an exhibition on April 22, 2018.

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Ina Budde sets new standards in the rapidly changing fashion industry. The principles of circular economy run through her collection DfC X JNJ with impressive consistency – a feat that she was rewarded for with the Federal Ecodesign Award 2017.

The fashion designer’s dedication for recycling-optimizing design principles and a fair production opposes the linear industrial ways of economy that lead to a high consumption of raw materials and enormous amounts of waste. Transparency and traceability of the materials and production, as well as the expansion of return-services and the development of new utilization concepts and distribution channels are important cornerstones of Ina Budde’s work.

Opening:

April 25, from 7 pm

Opening Times:

April 26 – May 16, 2018
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

The exhibition celebrates not just chart-topping hits – German Schlager as well as offbeat and forgotten musical offerings await your (re)discovery. The heart of the exhibition is the Main Road, which presents the cultural background to the respective eras of pop. The Sound Lounge invites you to listen and relax. Sixty songs from Marlene Dietrich to Pur complement the Main Road audio experience. In the Backstage area, a selection of posters and record and CD covers brings old memories vividly back to life.

mfk-berlin.de

»Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today« is the first exhibition to give a comprehensive overview of the design history of the nightclub, examining its cultural context. Featuring films and vintage photographs, posters, flyers and fashion, the exhibition incorporates music, light and spatial installations to take visitors on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour and subcultures – always in search of the night that never ends.

Photo: Calvin Klein Party, 1978 © Hasse Persson

design-museum.de

Ina Budde sets new standards in the rapidly changing fashion industry. The principles of circular economy run through her collection DfC X JNJ with impressive consistency – a feat that she was rewarded for with the Federal Ecodesign Award 2017.

The fashion designer’s dedication for recycling-optimizing design principles and a fair production opposes the linear industrial ways of economy that lead to a high consumption of raw materials and enormous amounts of waste. Transparency and traceability of the materials and production, as well as the expansion of return-services and the development of new utilization concepts and distribution channels are important cornerstones of Ina Budde’s work.

Opening:

April 25, from 7 pm

Opening Times:

April 26 – May 16, 2018
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

Our exhibition »Reconsider Design« will be shown as part of the Design Week Lithuania from May 8 to 31 in Kaunas, Lithuania. The exhibition showcases 30 outstanding examples for ecological design from the Baltic Sea region – from awareness and research projects to material studies to products from areas such as fashion or mobility. Opening: Tue, May 8, 5pm.

On May 9, the workshop »Learning Factory for Ecodesign« takes place at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. As part of the »Ecodesign Roadshow«, the training is open for professionals and teachers. The workshop aims to convey methods and tools to enable participants to design products and services for a Circular Economy. The workshop will be held in English by Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM.

Registration
Please register online before May 6. Admission free.

Venue
Vytautas Magnus University (412 room)
V. Putvinskio St. 23
Kaunas, Lithuania

Stilwerk and CAPAROL ICONS will present a joint travelling exhibition in Berlin. For the new Caparol wall paint collection, an interdisciplinary team of trend researchers, art historians and interior designers examined the colour trends of the last 60 years and defined 120 iconic nuances.
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For the exhibition "SYNERGIEN" Interior Designer harry clark stages exquisite mid-century furniture in combination with his own designs. He transforms the showrooms of LOMOMOMO and ORIGINAL IN BERLIN into a place of expressive and elegant compositions.

After the vernissage, the exhibition can be visited in the rooms of LOMOMOMO during the regular opening hours of ORIGINAL IN BERLIN.


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The lecture will be held in German.

From May 29 to June 3, the exhibition "New Conceptions" with the winners and nominees of the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2017 will be part of the 30th Coburg Design Days.

Details about the program will be available soon.

Can fashion – a phenomenon that is subjected to constant renewal – even be sustainable? Natascha von Hirschhausen deals with this question in her work and explores the limits of the feasible. Only natural plastic-free materials are used in the production of her collections – their origin and manufacturing are tested and transparent along the whole value-added chain. A special cutting technique developed by the designer herself allows her to reduce the material waste to less than one percent. All garments are manufactured locally and per order – in this way long transportation routes and overproduction can be avoided. For her outstanding dedication to the principles of sustainability Natascha von Hirschhausen was honoured with the German Federal Ecodesign Award in 2017.

Opening:

May 30, from 7 pm

Opening Times:

May 31 – June 20, 2018
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

The exhibition celebrates not just chart-topping hits – German Schlager as well as offbeat and forgotten musical offerings await your (re)discovery. The heart of the exhibition is the Main Road, which presents the cultural background to the respective eras of pop. The Sound Lounge invites you to listen and relax. Sixty songs from Marlene Dietrich to Pur complement the Main Road audio experience. In the Backstage area, a selection of posters and record and CD covers brings old memories vividly back to life.

mfk-berlin.de

»Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today« is the first exhibition to give a comprehensive overview of the design history of the nightclub, examining its cultural context. Featuring films and vintage photographs, posters, flyers and fashion, the exhibition incorporates music, light and spatial installations to take visitors on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour and subcultures – always in search of the night that never ends.

Photo: Calvin Klein Party, 1978 © Hasse Persson

design-museum.de

From May 29 to June 3, the exhibition "New Conceptions" with the winners and nominees of the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2017 will be part of the 30th Coburg Design Days.

Details about the program will be available soon.

Can fashion – a phenomenon that is subjected to constant renewal – even be sustainable? Natascha von Hirschhausen deals with this question in her work and explores the limits of the feasible. Only natural plastic-free materials are used in the production of her collections – their origin and manufacturing are tested and transparent along the whole value-added chain. A special cutting technique developed by the designer herself allows her to reduce the material waste to less than one percent. All garments are manufactured locally and per order – in this way long transportation routes and overproduction can be avoided. For her outstanding dedication to the principles of sustainability Natascha von Hirschhausen was honoured with the German Federal Ecodesign Award in 2017.

Opening:

May 30, from 7 pm

Opening Times:

May 31 – June 20, 2018
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

POSITIONEN DES NEUEN
The annual conference of the GfDg in cooperation with the Neue Sammlung München will take place on June 8/9, 2018 at the Neue Sammlung München

Conference fee
• 60 / 10 Euro for Gfdg-members / Gfdg-members student discount
• 100 / 20 Euro for non-members / non-members student discount
• optional + 25 Euro for the friday night dinner

Registration open until June 1, 2018

More information:gfdg.org

On June 12, the media industry will meet in Potsdam and the media.connect brandenburg and the Digital Division of T-Systems invite you to attend the event! The medientreff offers a very special networking evening for actors, decision-makers and multipliers from the media locations Brandenburg and Berlin.

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IDZ Berlin is organizing an international conference on Circular Economy and Ecodesign on June 14 at the EUREF campus in Berlin. Alongside workshops, lectures and panels talks, the conference will host our exhibition »Reconsider Design«.

As part of the »Circular Design Forum« we will present our exhibition »Reconsider Design« at the EUREF-Campus in Berlin. The exhibition showcases 30 outstanding examples for ecological design from the Baltic Sea region – from awareness and research projects to material studies to products from areas such as fashion or mobility.

On June 14, the artist Nicoleta Albei-Wigger will present her paintings in a pop-up gallery at stilwerk Berlin. The exhibition is complemented by selected design classics from stilwerk.
Please register here: berlin@stilwerk.de.

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Over 150 speakers from varied fields such as tech, art and science will give insight into new developments and share their ideas for the future of tech, life and work at Funkhaus Berlin. Numerous satellite events will take place across the city introducing local startups, studios and agencies.

Enjoy 15% off regular ticket prices via this link. All details on the program: toa.berlin

Since 2011 chmara.rosinke studio designs, directs and executes objects, interiors and pop-ups from concept through to creation. They strive to combine craftsmanship with a conceptual and ecological approach, realizing both commissioned and self-inititated projects. Many of their works are inspired by functional and socio-cultural aspects und are trying to translate their observations into objects.

At Kunstgewerbemuseum, they will show a various experimental objects they created for research and exhibition projects.

Opening:

June 27, from 7 pm

Opening Times:

June 28 – July 18, 2018
Tue – Wed: 10am – 6pm, Sat – Sun: 11am –6pm

Venue:

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

On June 28 and 29, the Brandenburg Design Conference invites creatives, designers, innovators, marketing experts and entrepreneurs to network on the topics of nutrition and lifestyle at the IHK Potsdam and the Rechenzentrum Kunst- und Kreativhaus.

More information and registration: designkonferenz-brandenburg.de