N.B. The BA design saloon is unfortunately canceled. The BA exhibition is open from 12.00 to 18.00. Welcome to a Sunday afternoon together with graduate students from HDK's Bachelor's Program in Design. While the students' graduation exhibition at HDK is…

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 Saturday 12th:   10:00-18:00…

Design methods for increasing children’s participation in city development processes According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP, 2017), participation is key to achieving sustainable development. However, our experience is that participation is a complex endeavor, especially when you are…

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…

HDK Zine Archive documents traces of material work through different formats. This explorative documentation works in relation to issues and methods of self-publishing and the zine, both as object and as possible method for collecting and disseminating knowledge. Adjacent to…

An exhibition with and by students and staff in Crafts about what’s going on at the present within Ceramic Art, Jewellery Art and Textile Art at HDK. Thursday and Friday 12.00 - 17.00, Saturday and Sunday 12.00 - 18.00. Opening…

To slaughter a tree is a performance where a tree will be sacrificed. The craftsman meets the tree in a poetic and respectful way when he slaughter it into pieces. How will our experience of the tree as material change…

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…

Welcome to a two-day workshop run by Mikaela Eira Wallin, a graffiti painter and a jewellery artist studying her second year at HDK, where we will explore new materials and unexpected sculptural qualities. “I have always been interested in scupltural…

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 the opening night:  …

Enter the cocoon and experience the interior of an object that wasn’t designed for a human body. “Transformation”, a two meter high wool and metal cocoon, was originally created for the annuals student exhibition where  it invited the audience to…

Talk with Mattias Gunnarsson and invited guests. Mattias Gunnarsson is an artist and a Senior Lecturer in Design at HDK. He has a great interest in, and work with zines, self-publishing, publishing as artistic practice and issues revolving independent publishing.…

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…

Xiaodai Huang covers industrial objects with colourful decorations, combines graphical stylizations of of wings, stones and flowers with new organic shapes. But what is it that causes the mutations? Is it radioactivity and pollution or is it an evolution leading…

In Swedish. Image: The Lost Series, Göteborg 2019 av Eric Magassa