More than 4,000 people come to FutureDesignDays every year, all of them with some special interest in design. And all of them on the lookout for new knowledge and experiences, intent on making new contacts and developing business opportunities. The festival is a veritable crucible for new partnerships, innovative design concepts and good business.

We learnt that there are a lot of people who share our enthusiasm, optimism, drive and values concerning design and the future.

Piers Roberts, Designersblock, UK

More than 4,000 informed delegates - all with their own special interest in design – thirsting for knowledge, new contacts and business opportunities at FutureDesignDays. Piers Roberts (UK) attended the 2004 festival and presented Designersblock – a project helping young talents to make an international breakthrough.

Tailor your own festival package

The FutureDesignDays Conference offers world-class edutainment. The Breakout Sessions are a source of valuable knowledge and insights into successful projects and tomorrow’s design. The EXPO area opens up undreamt-of scope for knowledge sharing and making business contacts. And the Parties offer settings that are made for networking. Delegates can choose freely from this tempting menu, composing their own festival pack-ages in accordance with time, resources and spheres of interest.

Boundless format with boundless scope

FutureDesignDays is an open-format event in which people from different disciplines and different parts of the world meet and exchange experiences and knowledge. The international element is growing with every year, and the 2005 festival attracted delegates from 26 countries. As always, they are a mixed bunch – designers, interior designers, researchers, university lecturers, politicians, students, stylists, marketers, company executives – anyone and everyone with any kind of interest in design. Plus opinion-formers and trendsetters from a wide range of sectors, interfacing with everyone from niche players to representatives of giant global brands.

I certainly haven’t experienced a better seminar, conference or similar on design anywhere in the world.

Mårten Claesson, Designer, Claesson-Koivisto-Rune, Sweden

The event was amazing. The audience – Swedes and visitors from all over the world – was great.

Efe Buluc, Designer, to22, Turkey

I mean, only in Sweden is it possible to organise something like this.

Emilio Genovesi, Administrative Director, Domus Academy, Italy