PREVIOUS WORK IS FALLING OUT OF WEB – HERE I PUT OUT AGAIN
The aim of the event of unusual format – unconference – is to create network among young designers and use it as a platform for further actions. Event is planned to be held in February. Young designers and design students from each Nordic-Baltic region country will participate.
Young designers from 9 Nordic-Baltic region design schools are organizing B!Young Designers Unconference in Vilnius Lithuania in February 2013. The aim of the event of unusual format – unconference – is to create network among young designers and use it as a platform for further actions. It will be a seminar-workshop-type event where the position of young designers` and design education in the region is discussed.
The Unconference is initiated by students who met in a Cirrus workshop REACH in Iceland this summer 2012. Here is a link to the summary of the happenings http://dorigislason.com/reach-between-thos-that-need-to-meet-up/
There will be delegation from each country of the region. The Unconference will be a place to meet up and get to know the conditions to make future plans for communication between participants and institutions.
The participating schools are:
Lithuania: Vilnius Academy of Arts
Latvia: Art Academy of Latvia
Estonia: Estonian Academy of Arts
Finland: Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Sweden: HDK – School of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg
Norway: Oslo National Academy of Arts
Denmark: Kolding School of Design
Iceland: Iceland Academy of Arts
Greenland: NAPA – the Nordic Institution in Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland
For further information contact (kairit.solg@aalto.fi)
This is a continuation of the meeting in Iceland, see here: XXXXXXXXX
November 22, 2012
Posted in: DESIGN, ICELAND
