The laptop on which you may be reading these very lines, the pen you set aside to do it – all things that surround us every day as a matter of course, all of them designed. The DMY International Design Festival Berlin reveals how these everyday objects are created and who’s behind them. Next week, for the 14th consecutive year, key players from product, industrial, fashion, graphic, and communication design will present their pioneering ideas. The exhibition will be accompanied by a supporting program, which, true to the “Odyssey” theme, will examine design as a global phenomenon. At the opening, Andreas Tölke and representatives from the creative industries will discuss approaches from the design sector that could provide the world’s uprooted people with opportunities and a home. A special perk for parents and their little ones? For the first time ever, the festival will feature supervisedworkshops for kids, allowing grown-ups to explore the festival undisturbed, discovering things like Plexiglas handbags with table lamp functionality, time and space saving furniture push-fit systems made of resin, and jewelry made from silkworm cocoons. (Text: Stephanie Johne)
DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2016 im Kraftwerk, Köpenicker Str.70, 10179 Berlin-Mitte; map
Opening hours: 2.-5.06.2016, Thu 12-24, Fri & Sat 10-20h, Sun 10-18h. For tickets please click here, for the whole program here.
