FDD 2001 Borås: In process
FutureDesignDays 2001 started out as an experiment. Would it really be possible to gather designers and architects from all over the world to debate and talk about design? Would there be an audience, and would it understand how important it was to listen, learn and...
FDD 2002 Borås: Design without boundaries
FutureDesignDays 2002 concentrated on highlighting the people with the courage to cross all boundaries in their work. The people whose work advanced the boundaries of what can be achieved and what design can signify. And they were all there. The stage was invaded by...
FDD 2003 Borås: They said it couldn’t be done
Exhibitions, parties, mingling, a very extensive speaker list and more than 1,000 visitors. The theme of FutureDesignDays 2003 was “They said it couldn’t be done”. But everyone who attended saw that it could be done. New ties were formed between visitors and speakers....
FDD 2004 Stockholm: FEAR
FutureDesignDays 2004 left its hometown Borås for the swedish capital Stockholm. The event grew big at the Stockholm International Fairs with a huge EXPO, compared to what was exposed at Åhaga in Borås. The conference developed further and Breakout Sessions were...
FDD 2005 Stockholm: SHIFT
The festival of 2005 took on a different shape. It became more like four festivals in one – a conference with four blocks, each providing in-depth information and inspiration in the fields of industrial design, architecture, new media and fashion. The Breakout...
FDD 2006 Stockholm: share – the power of collaboration
Since FutureDesignDays is an ongoing process, never completed or ready to settle down, this years festival just like all the other festivals took on a different shape. The intimicy was in focus. The goal was to create a tight and intensive meeting place with...
Rachel Cooper and Mike Press
Rachel Cooper Professor UK Mike Press Professor UK Design Against Crime The research programme, Design Against Crime (DAC) develops and improves the efficacy of crime-preventive design. It creates an understanding for how design can prevent crime, and helps designers...
Hani Rashid
Architect USA Hani Rashid received his MA (Architecture) from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1985. By 1989 he was already working as a teacher at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, where he was also a leading researcher in architecture linked to...
Massimo Morozzi
Industrail designer Italy Massimo Morozzi was born in Florence, but he lives and works in Milan. As a young man, in the 60s and 70s, he was a prime mover in the Italian anti-design movement and one of the prominent figures in the Archizoom Group. He was subsequently...
Phil Thornton
Author, DJ, journalist, lecturer UK They say that "Clothes make the man." The question is whether fashionable brands like Henry Lloyd, Hugo Boss, Stone Island, Evisu, Lacoste, Burberry and Y3 will endorse that saying. For these are some of the favourite brands of...
Paola Navone
Interior designer Design consultant Italy In brief: - Former member of the anti-design movements Alchimia and Memphis. - Boundary-crossing designer with a predilection for traditional handicrafts. - Currently in the news with new collections for Lando (Gingerbread)...
Marcel Wanders
Designer The Netherlands Marcel Wanders moves unhindered between materials and disciplines. He runs his own studio in Amsterdam, is the designer and art director at Moooi and has worked at Droog Design. Marcel Wanders has given the world a porcelain bogey which can be...