Design Night 23-26.09
Design Night FestivalThe 5th Design Night Festival will take place in Tallinn from 23 to 26 September 2010. The centre of the festival will be the Rotermann Quarter.
At the end of September the focus will be on design again. Organisers of the festival wish to demonstrate how creativity and design can be applied in creating a better physical and social living environment. The keyword of the festival is ‘synthesis’, referring to an ever progressing process in which different fields of culture will merge, so that it will be difficult to distinguish between them.
The slogan of this year’s Design Night will be: DESIGN AT YOUR SERVICE. This time the educating lectures will be centred on design management and universal design. At the design management conference we will discuss why some enterprises are more successful than others.
The Tallinn For All project which aims to improve the accessibility of the town and increase its number of visitors, together with its accompanying seminar Cities For All and various workshops, will help apply the ‘Design for All’ way of thinking. Presentations will be made by top experts in their fields: Jean Schneider (France), Kathryn Best (United Kingdom), Pete Kercher (Italy), Finn Petren (Sweden), Julia Cassim (United Kingdom), Peter Neumann (Germany), Francesc Aragall (Spain) and others. Workshops will encourage designers to (re)use their manual skills. Prof. Gregor Krisztian (Germany) and Björn Koop will demonstrate how virtuosos work and how the idea finds a visual form.
We will continue the tradition of seeking links between design and culinary art. The aim of the Bread workshop is to appraise Estonian bread products. We are also looking for the ‘Estonian Bite’. The material expert Simone de Waart (Material Sense, Holland) will supervise a workshop for people looking for innovations in food packaging and interested in developing a new kind of Estonian lunch.
For the third time the Estonian design award BRUNO will be awarded in the categories of best product design, best design project and excellent design management. The jury is formed by international members and the prize fund is 150,000 Estonian kroons. Architecture and Design Gallery will open an exhibition of the nominees. Awards will be handed out at the ceremonial gala event.
For the first time it is possible to take an insider’s look at Estonian design on movie screen. The documentary Estonian Design from the Inside will be premiered at the festival. The theme of identity searches will be supported by a theatrical performance in Cinema Sõprus.
The Design Auction will bring surprises with products designed specially for the event.
Those who wish will be given an opportunity to address messages to the world by means of a slide program at the Pecha Kucha face-to-face event.
The former grain elevator building in Rotermann Quarter will be filled with latest Estonian design: 100 metres of design.
A ‘tent city’ will be set up in the middle of the property; the environment will be designed by landscape architects and the Portuguese social project DEMO_polis.
Design Night will host Dutch design exhibitions Out of the Box, Bike and Dutch Bike Fantasy.
Creative energy will be released at fashion shows and in the new collections by Estonian fashion designers. A design competition will be organised to find a ‘signature cushion’ for a hotel.
The title of the weekend fashion show will paraphrase the slogan of the Festival: Fashion Design at Your Service. For the fifth time already, Reet Aus has chosen to present her new collection at the Design Night Festival. Her newest collection is titled Out of Fashion.
Events will be organised and lectures held in galleries and design stores until midnight; the ‘design nightclub’ will be open until early in the morning...
The Festival is organised by Estonian Association of Designers in cooperation with the non-profit organisation MTÜ Disainiöö.Design Night is sponsored by Estonian Cultural Endowment and Tallinn Department of Cultural Values.
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