Design Bar: Creativity, Sustainability and Societal Relevance

What is creative, sustainable and socially relevant design? Together with previous recipients of the Excellent Swedish Design award, ArkDes and Svensk Form ↗ invite you to an evening of conversation, reflection and hands-on making.

To mark the relaunch of the award, we reflect on the past and look ahead with former awardees. Guided by the award’s core values – Creative excellence (originality and innovation), Sustainability (economic, social and ecological), and Societal relevance (impact and long-term value) – we explore how the design field has changed since the award was established in 1983.

The evening begins with a panel discussion featuring previous recipients in conversation with Daniel Golling, Curator of Collections at ArkDes. Together, they reflect on what the awarded works meant at the time – and what they mean today. Afterwards, you are invited to respond creatively, using paper and pen to sketch out new ideas that reflect today’s challenges and possibilities.

Schedule

17:30 Panel with former awardees of Excellent Swedish Design

• Caroline Schlyter, sculptor and artist. Winner in 1992 with Little h.
• Mia Seipel, innovator and entrepreneur. Winner in 2001 with boob.
• Erika Lagerbielke, designer, glass artist and professor in design, Linneaus University. Winner with Intermezzo (1985), Vintage (1987), Merlot (1995), as well as an honorary award for Difference (2002).
• Daniel Golling, Curator of Collections at ArkDes.

18:00 Workshop

19:00 End

ArkDes’ Design Bar highlights the power of design in shaping a sustainable future. Each session starts with a lecture or panel discussion, followed by a workshop for deeper engagement with the topic. Alcohol-free beverages and snacks will be available for purchase at Torget via Swish. Tonight’s programme is a collaboration with Svensk Form ↗.