The Designmonat (Month of Design) is coming soon in Graz

The 2017 edition will take place from 29th April to 28th May

During the Designmonat, an extensive programme provides an insight into different creative disciplines and links with various designers.

Events such as exhibitions, workshops or lectures invite you to networking in the UNESCO City of Design Graz.

From 29^th April to 28^th May, Designmonat Graz 2017 is coordinated and organised by Creative Industries Styria (CIS) – already for the ninth time.

There is a persistent strong interest in the event. In the previous year a total of:

• 51,000 visitors

• 122 single events

• 84 partners

 

were recorded. This year, the programme focuses on ‘Smart Design – Smart Production’ and deals with the age of digital networking and the multifarious tools of the Digital Revolution.

Last but not least, the protagonists of the creative industries – developers, researchers, programmers and designers – are the ones who created and enabled the new technological age. There are also plans for a ‘Smartness Conference’ on this subject.

 

 

Major events at Designmonat Graz

The exhibition ‘SELECTED’ has a long tradition in terms of current interior design trends of different brands from diverse countries.

What is new, is not only the presented trends, but also the location because this year the exhibition is staged in the Museum of Natural History at Joanneumsviertel.

The successful format ‘Design in the City’ continues to actively involve commercial companies of Graz in the programme of Designmonat.

By doing so, the participating companies launch design activities in addition to their everyday business.

Further, the fashion and design festival ‘assembly’ will once more be a part of Designmonat Graz.

 

 

Established partners

Designmonat Graz will again include the production ‘Klanglicht’ of Bühnen Graz – this year it will take place on two days at selected locations.

Schloss Hollenegg for Design invites to the exhibition MORPHOSIS around the topic ‘change, evolution and transformation/metamorphosis’.

The fans of Fesch’Markt may also look forward to the month of May.

In cooperation with FH Joanneum, the Department of Media & Design wants to familiarise us with the media design of the 1970s. The exhibition called ‘The Orange Age’ presents audio and TV devices as well as communication and office appliances, provided by Heinz Fischer.

In addition, we plan lectures on the issue of smart communication in the future.

 

 

New accents

‘Smart Urban Privacy’ is the name of a cooperation with Holzcluster Styria, in the course of which we present objects, that enable a temporary retreat at lively, public locations.

The smart city furniture for ‘digital natives’ or ‘digital immigrants’ rely of course on the smart material wood.

Speaking of wood: within the regional focus on Raabtal, we will stage the second design battle in May, where teams of designers and specialists will cope with a task based on the topic ‘wood’.

 

 

About Creative Industries Styria

The Creative Industries Styria GmbH is the network of the creative industries in Styria and the organizers of Designmonat Graz.

They raise awareness for the creative sector on a regional and international level.

Being active co-creators of the structural change towards a knowledge-based production company, they initiate and coordinate initiatives and key projects of the creative industries.

They are cooperation and contact partners for institutions and companies that wish to implement creative concepts and support their implementation through project-related consulting and networking.

The creative industries take on an interdisciplinary function with regard to strengthening the innovative processes of companies by means of design as a holistic process for product and service innovations.

Their function is also essential in terms of location development and the formation of innovative environments.

 

// Press contact: Beate Mosing, +43/664/88 39 75 48, beate.mosing@doppelpunkt.at //