Dundee Design Festival will run from 23-29 September with the programme including activities, exhibitions and talks featuring the work of over 180 designers all under one roof filling 10,000 sqm of Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc.
Visitors will be welcomed to a world of Scottish contemporary design with opportunities to discover new and existing designs in furniture, interiors, jewellery, homewares, craft, graphic design and fashion across a programme of exhibitions and installations aligning with the festival theme of ‘Multiplicity’.
Festival Highlights include:
FRAMEWORK: Over 70 designs have been selected for this exhibition from an open call capturing a snapshot of Scottish contemporary design today.
BOOKENDS: Festival Creative Director Dr Stacey Hunter invited 20 Scotland based designers to respond to the collected writings of Bessie Maxwell and Marie Imandt, two of the first female correspondents to circumnavigate the globe in 1894 and report back to eager readers of The Courier and Weekly News.
MATERIALISE: Four of Scotland’s leading design studios were invited to embrace the space and ambition inherent in the festival site at MSIP. The result is a series of large scale installations inviting festival visitors to see Scottish design up close, get hands-on with materials, learn about new approaches to interior design, play with colour and fabric and even enjoy design inspired performance.
HYPER-LOCAL: 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of Dundee’s status as a UNESCO City of Design recognising the city’s diverse contributions to design in fields including comics, textiles, medical innovation and video games. One of a global network of 49 cities around the world, the HYPER-LOCAL exhibition celebrates those international connections with a display of over 50 design objects linked to their host cities.
Dundee Design Festival 2024 will celebrate the city's 10th anniversary as a UNESCO City of Design by working with local and international partners to present an ambitious and optimistic programme of design-centred exhibitions, events and projects. Dundee was the first and remains the UK’s only UNESCO City of Design, one of a global network of 49 cities around the world. Festival organisers reiterate their commitment to creating one of the world’s most sustainable design festivals powered by clean energy and using less than 30% virgin materials in staging the festival.
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Participants
- Donna Wilson
- ADesignStorie
- House of Wellbeing
- Adam Johnston
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