For many designers, bureaucracy is the enemy of creativity – the antithesis of what we are taught design should be all about. At best, it is seen as a necessary evil; boxes to be ticked, rules to be bent, red…

Presentations by Henrik Franklin and Lina Sofia Lundin. 13:00 Henrik Franklin 14:00 Lina Sofia Lundin 15:00 Discussion moderated by Maja Gunn Maja Gunn is Professor of Craft specialized in Textiles at the program Textile-Body-Space at HDK Steneby. She is a…

A two-hours artwork-based conversation moderated by Elena Raviola around AI and design work with invited designers and experts working in the field. We will have the pleasure to welcome three experienced designers/design studios, that have worked with AI in different…

This activity contains two interlinked lectures, followed by a conversation, mingle and practical experiments. The key speakers are Helena Hansson, teacher and doctoral student at HDK and Mania Teimouri, representative from Kultur i Väst and the network for architecture- and…

The exhibition Ung Svensk Form is a unique arena for young design and blooming design practitioners. The project was created with the aim of increasing the knowledge and widening the scope of new, innovative Swedish design; helping it engage with…

Objects from the past meets contemporary craft Seven artists who recently got their degree from the Master’s programme in Crafts at HDK exhibit at Göteborgs Auktionsverk.   Open October 9 – October 19. Monday-Friday 13:00-17:00 Saturday 11:00-15:00   Opening Wednesday…

A-venue is an interdisciplinary artistic platform for students of the Faculty of Fine, applied and performing arts (Valand Academy, HDK, HSM). During the summer a group of invited students form the various educations worked together, side by side, in a…

Participate in the process of weaving, speculation and conversation together with the American textile artist Marianne Fairbanks. Welcome to the first WeavingLab in Sweden. Welcome to participate in the first WeavingLab in Sweden. WeavingLab ran for two summers in Wisconsin.…

“What You Sense” is about playing, exploring and collective creating. The target group is people with cognitive and physical disabilities. By creating interactive objects that are visually and tactically interesting, in combination with immediate and distinct audiovisual response, we want…

The exhibition MAOW 2019 / DESIGN EXCAVATIONS is hosting an ongoing and extensive program of different set-ups and activations that will constantly rearrange the space over the course of five days. This is the schedule for Thursday 10th:    …

The exhibition MAOW 2019 / DESIGN EXCAVATIONS is hosting an ongoing and extensive program of different set-ups and activations that will constantly rearrange the space over the course of five days. This is the schedule for Friday 11th:   8:00-20:00…

The exhibition MAOW 2019 / DESIGN EXCAVATIONS is hosting an ongoing and extensive program of different set-ups and activations that will constantly rearrange the space over the course of five days. This is the schedule for Saturday 12th:   10:00-18:00…

HDK - Academy of Design and Crafts and Valand Academy invite you to an open house celebrating our upcoming merger in 2020! During the afternoon we are focusing on some of the Master's Programmes, where English is the language used.…

Unboxning the Monument of Frihamnen is an essayistic after study made by Julia Andreasson about the Jubilé Park project in Gothenburg, that unveils a speculative hidden story of a monumental founding of a bus stop for the park. the park…

A-venue is an interdisciplinary artistic platform for students of the Faculty of Fine, applied and performing arts (Valand Academy, HDK, HSM). During the summer a group of invited students form the various educations worked together, side by side, in a…