The next UX Design Awards are coming up! From March 9 to May 31 (extended until June 6, 2021), companies, agencies, professionals and up-and-coming designers worldwide are invited to submit their best work for the global competition for outstanding experience design. Make it Count!

Every spring, BERLIN DESIGN WEEK presents new thinking and design approaches that envision and shape our future. New challenges set new standards: Digitally and physically, the current theme of the BERLIN DESIGN WEEK "NEW TRADITIONS" is taken up more than ever in its diverse formats.
Crises require a discourse for forward-looking strategies. Clear, sustainable and trend-setting design can usher in a new normality. Business, research and decision-makers need the creative power of design, its fresh ideas, new strategies and concepts for a society in transition and vice versa.

From the opening with the showrooms at Bikini Berlin, the DESIGN POOL, to the closing highlight, the OPEN STUDIO NIGHTS, the BNDNWK offers a variety of formats. Exhibitions, showrooms, talks and guided tours to workshops, screenings and conferences enliven the design world over eleven days at various locations in Berlin and online.

Designers, artists, studios, cultural institutions, universities and companies can still apply to participate in the curated program 2021 until March 31.

The digital Joint Brokerage Event (JBE) is a matchmaking event for Berlin and Chinese companies active in the fields of design and sustainable technologies. Organized in collaboration with our Chinese network partners, they offer a mix of talks and matchmaking with 1-on-1 business matchmaking calls.

If you would like to attend one of these events or are interested in learning more, please contact magdalena.jaster@idz.de and register in the members area of the CN-BC website.

Themed Shifting Boundaries, former award winners Marcella Hansch, Tobias Becker and Lea Schücking will present their projects and discuss, among other things, how good ideas can be put into practice. The discussion will be moderated by Liza Sander, who researches and teaches on the topics of circular design and circular society at HTW Berlin and HfK Bremen.

Please note: The presentation will be held in German!

Schedule:

- Introduction by moderator Tapani Jokinen (Fraunhofer IZM)
- Designers’ feedback to the Learning Factory by Ronja Scholz (Fraunhofer IZM)
- EcoDesign Audit by Harri Moora (EKJA) - TBC
- EcoDesign Sprint and Circularity in Service Design Practices by Juha Kronqvist & Zeynep Falay von Flittner (Hellon)
- Open discussion

The event is organised by Estonian Design Center and held in cooperation with the EcoDesign Circle project and its partners.


Please register here!

“Minimic” combines automated imaging with AI-powered image analysis to support diagnostic tasks in medicine and life sciences. The current focus is on automated detection of malaria and tuberculosis.

The format, live interactive presentations followed by a Q&A session, offers a behind-the-scenes look at award-winning projects and spotlights key team members. We will be streaming the conversation live in English on Linkedin and Zoom.

More info and registration.

In their book, the authors set out to explore the unique identities of guidance systems at over a hundred different airports, examining the storied past, current challenges and promising future of airport wayfinding around the world.

As managing directors of the design studio Moniteurs, they and their team focus on orientation, corporate design and digital products. Among other things, they are responsible for the concept and planning of the guidance and orientation system of BER Airport. They are currently working for Munich, Hanover, Zurich and Chicago airports.

As always, there will be an opportunity for exchange afterwards.

Please note: The presentation will be held in German!

According to research, blind people tend to be more obese compared to sighted people, as it is difficult for them to leave their homes to exercise.

The Yoguide app aims at helping the visually impaired to do yoga on their own at home. It acts as a personal trainer, keeping an eye on people, providing specific instructions and correcting errors. It uses a phone camera with computer vision to detect the body's joints and orientation, compares it to correct orientations and guides people accordingly.

Info and registration

The digital Joint Brokerage Event (JBE) is a matchmaking event for Berlin and Chinese companies active in the fields of design and sustainable technologies. Organized in collaboration with our Chinese network partners, they offer a mix of talks and matchmaking with 1-on-1 business matchmaking calls.

If you would like to attend one of these events or are interested in learning more, please contact magdalena.jaster@idz.de and register in the members area of the CN-BC website.

With the YNNOVATION CARDS, the industrial design agency unyt.berlin has developed a methodical set of cards in the context of its own design thinking workshops. The total of 27 playing cards are intended to be used during the idea-finding phase within development processes. Through their impulses, new creative approaches to solutions are to be found. In a compact online presentation, the cards are presented for the first time.

unyt was founded in 2017 from various creative agencies and today has several branches in Germany. As an owner-managed full-service agency, it serves the B2B sector and specialises in strategic design developments of capital goods and high-tech systems. Its customers ranges from start-ups and SMEs to global corporations.

As always, there will be an opportunity for exchange following the lecture.

Please note: The presentation will be held in German!

IDZ board member and founding partner of Fuenfwerken Design AG, Helmut Ness, takes us on a short learning journey on the topic of "Leadership by Design" together with Jeremias Schmitt, Executive Director Strategy and Transformation.

In the transformation programme "Leadership by Design", Helmut Ness and Jeremias Schmitt lead us through three consecutive sprints with the aim of letting the participants themselves become the designers of their future. In moderated breakout sessions, they experience through their own doing how to gain clarity, structure challenges, recognise unexpected solutions, set the course for the future and produce concrete results.

At the IDZ Meetup, the two from Fuenfwerken want to convey the programme in an experiential way. In addition to an impulse and the active joint experience of an exercise from the programme, there will be an opportunity for exchange.

Please note: The presentation will be held in German!

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