{"id":32209,"date":"2025-07-24T12:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/?post_type=activity&p=32209"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:04:54","slug":"design-bar-creativity-sustainability-and-societal-relevance","status":"publish","type":"activity","link":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/en\/calendar\/design-bar-creativity-sustainability-and-societal-relevance\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Bar: Creativity, Sustainability and Societal Relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is creative, sustainable and socially relevant design? Together with previous recipients of the Excellent Swedish Design award, ArkDes and Svensk Form ↗<\/a> invite you to an evening of conversation, reflection and hands-on making.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> (originality and innovation), Sustainability<\/em> (economic, social and ecological), and Societal relevance<\/em> (impact and long-term value) – we explore how the design field has changed since the award was established in 1983.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Schedule<\/p>\n

17:30 Panel with former awardees of Excellent Swedish Design<\/p>\n