The season of design events is getting fuller with Gdynia Design Days 2019, the biggest summer design festival of Poland. This great event, which is famous for being the leading Baltic region festival will be the right place to jump into an art adventure. GDD aims to be one of the biggest motivational design events of Poland providing the latest trends and best practices. Immerse yourself into a highly-inspirational event, where professionals, industry experts, designers, and design addicts will gather to spend some days listening to seminars, discussions, and talks and participating in workshops and exhibitions. Keep on reading this Gdynia Design Days 2019 Event Guide to get all the insights!
WHERE & WHEN
This year Gdynia Design Centre is organizing the 12th edition of this inspirational event, which will take place at the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia, from July 6th to 14th. Even though the center will be the main location, there will be events and installations related to the design event all over the city, for example at the Gdynia City Museum, Gdynia Film Centre, Navy Club “Riviera”.
Motto – “POLARISATION”
“POLARISATION” was chosen as 2019 edition motto because of our bright necessity for a dialogue in a world which is more divided than ever. Realities of today’s world show that different and opposite factions have to come together to start a conversation about their issues and problems: engagement on contemporary’s problems through a forum for debate is the real key to find valid solutions to a polarised reality.
YOU CAN’T MISS THIS
Cloudmine pop-up <3 GDD
As part of this year’s Gdynia Design Days festival, Warsaw’s Cloudmine boutique will open its pop-up store. What to expect: the best in Polish design and fashion. During the weekend of 6-7 July, dozens of great brands creating the top-class interior design—furniture, textiles, ceramics—will showcase their latest collections. Just as last year, the showroom will be opened in the modernist space of the Crafts Guild in Gdynia. The two-day pop-up is not only a trade fair but also involves a workshop and relaxation zone, where you can have a coffee and relax on deckchairs.
Hello Open’er! – guided tours on Gdynia Design Days exhibitions
During the one-hour guided tour, the guides of GDD will show you the most interesting projects from over 20 exhibitions presented at the PPNT Gdynia. This year they interpret the festival slogan — POLARIZATION. At the main exhibition “me | we” you will see, among others, how to improve intergenerational communication and play chess with our grandparents.
In addition, they will take you on a Mars mission with Lem Mars Rover, you will get a closer look at the human body as a previously unused source of raw materials, prove that there is the matter of code and that not allowing global warming to rise of 2 ° C will save our planet from ecological catastrophe.
Design makes the world turn round better
The importance of design festivals is to not only depolarize but to embrace diversity and direct collaborative energy towards positive change. As World Design Weeks GDD are all different but they have got the love for design in common. Celebrating design is what this event does, to enhance the impact of the design.
From my own company Factor-I (2001) I work as a connector, communicator and conceptor with a focus on co/design for people and planet.
Ingrid van der Wacht
NO MORE WASTE
Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka – exhibition curator and design theoretician and Karol Muralak – designer and researcher present the “(no) more waste” installations: the focus will be on trash and how something that has always been considered an industry’s waste will be re-used in a new and responsible manner, to change the erroneous ways of our past productions.
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