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The project C7 is an exhibit by Mimmi Lassen Westberg, an artist that mainly express her work in photography and videography. Her work explores identity, gender, todays society and philosophical questions. The project can be open for interpretation depending on what is the horizon of…

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…

Warm welcome to ICIA Konsthall, on Ringön, for an evening where Studio Alight will conduct a guided tour about the work exhibited within Rob Law. In this tour, the collective will reveal insights on the themes, the behind-the-scenes making and…

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…

“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…

Listen to Snøhetta, the renowned Norwegian architecture firm, talk about the chair S-1500 made of materials from the Norwegian fishing industry. The result is a product far away from fast fashion and single use of plastics. In the exhibition Ocean…

The Botanica project displayed in the exhibition Ocean Plastics is created through investigating eighteenth and nineteenth-century methods before the oil was discovered to produce plastic. Hear the Italian designer duo Studio Formafantasma talk about the project and how they are…

Fake Empire is an exploration of human co-existence. The materials selected for a sweeping, translucent construction dictate the projection – a one of a kind experience. Resonating with it's surrounding industrial space; Fake Empire echoes historic depth. KÅDA is a…

Together we assemble shapes and transform the space. The given material invites you to work in a quick pace using two dimensional geometrical shapes. The workshop also gives you an opportunity to create designs that can inspire your own projects.…

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 Sunday 13th:   10:00-18:00…

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…

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 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 the opening night:  …

Welcome to Kiosken studio and a night of mingle. Join us in creating a temporary spatial installation in our studio exploring the perception of space. This is a happening where the exhibition and opening are being built simultaneously. Kiosken is…

"Human Prints" is a series of posters that collects objects, behaviours, needs and other aspects that influence, and has influenced, humanity throughout history. The exhibition entices reflection and highlights current subjects such as environment, appearance, violence etcetera. Ouch 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…

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.…

In the most northern part of Dalsland, in and between the small villages of Dals Långed and Fengersfors, culture production is one of the most prominent forces for shaping and developing the two communities, suggesting another take on contemporary life…

OhiO Wednesday  is an open forum for discussions and sharing of trans disciplinary knowledge and experiences that originated from a common wish among teachers, researchers and technicians to meet, talk and get to know each others practices. For the festival…

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…

This activity explores how design based on an artistic foundation can help strengthen the relationships between different community actors by creating a growing table together. We believe that cooperation is the key to achieving sustainable development, but our experience is…

How to invent new ideas about the ancient craft of weaving? The Röhsska Museum welcomes you to a unique opportunity to hear American textile artist Marianne Fairbanks tell about her project the WeavingLab. The artist Marianne Fairbanks opens her first…

Collective display of material traces and imprints, samples from an ongoing design process. By engaging with a explorative approach the capacity to track the possibilities that appears within the process are strengthened,  at the same tima as the ability to…

A conversation that revolves around the artistic exploration process and how that process can put yourself at risk. By taking an exploratory approach, the ability to see opportunities that manifest themselves in the work process is trained, so that the…

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…

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…

During this lecture we will look closer at a specific piece presented in one of the museum’s exhibitions by the Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers. We will also listen to a conversation about the influence Bauhaus has on today's practice-based research.…

Presentations by Maria Andersson and Anton Alvarez 13:00 Maria Andersson 14:00 Anton Alvarez 15:00 Discussion moderated by Markus Bergström Markus Bergström is based in Gothenburg Markus Bergström teaches design at HDK alongside his design practice. A central topic in both…

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…

Digital capitalism now permeates the very core of our societies and our lives. Market logic is the guiding principle and the information that the tech companies collect about us is sold to the highest bidder, whether it happens to be…

Like a festival within a festival Box Summer Studio stages an intimate performance for two days in the courtyard of the Röhsska Museum. The studio moves in the interface between design, art, dance and architecture. Box Summer Studio Festival takes…

Welcome to the design undergraduate degree show. This three year Bachelor of Fine Arts in design accommodates a wide platform for individual searches for an identity as designer. Mirroring that ambition the degree projects represents a variety of design topics…

Welcome to a two-day symposium presented by the Röhsska Museum and students of HDK - Academy of Design and Crafts. The symposium will be focused on practice-based research on occasion of the 100-year anniversary of the Bauhaus school.  In the…

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…

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.…

Opening of the exhibition Ung Svensk Form hosted by Svensk Form väst. During the evening 3 to 5 designers from the exhibition present their work followed by a discussion moderated by Anna Elzer Oscarsson. Snacks and drinks will be served.

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…

EAT Students from the freestanding design course EAT invites you to a public experience of food in relation to the concept of Sharing. www.eathdk.se Skrâps Stadsbiblioteket Instagram: skraps.eat.hdk 11.00–13.00 Re-defining Cake Student kitchen @ HDK 11.00–13.00 Eat/Evoke Room 513 @ HDK (Invites only) 11.00–13.00…

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

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Presentations by Staffan Holm and Lisa Marie Bengtsson 13:00 Lisa Marie Bengtsson 14:00 Staffan Holm 15:00 Discussion moderated by Maryam Fanni Maryam Fanni is a graphic designer based in Stockholm and Gothenburg with a degree from Konstfack University of Arts,…

The 2019 Degree Show presents itself as a format that continuously expose, explore and record the graduation projects from the programs MA Design, MA Child Culture Design and MA Business & Design at HDK. Consequently, the exhibition is understood as…