Seminar “New Scandinavian Design – changes and new trends from Sweden and neighboring countries” with Stefan Nilsson from Trendgruppen, Sweden.

Seminar will take place on 25th October 2011, at 10.00 am in the  Riga City Exhibition Hall “Riga Art Space” 3 Kungu Street (under the Town Hall Square).
Scandinavian design has for a long time been equivalent to plain minimalism but with the new trends also this changes. In this seminar Stefan Nilsson will point out the most important changes in trend categories that fall in themes like Howdy Cowboy, Made here and the glamorous and colourful trend Falcon Crest.

Registartion until October 20,
janis.gailitis@lma.lv

Students of the Design Department, Art Academy of Latvia will work at Design Fiction workshop organised by Electrolux Latvia on February 22-23, 2010!

Any product you can imagine today will probably be technologically possible by 2050. But with what kind of needs would we actually have in 40 years time? What might the world and our homes look like by then? To give you a feel for future, we’ll introduce several scenarios for 2050. We’ll design stories and speculate what those futures might mean for different people. And we’ll explore product ideas based on that. In this workshop, we’re looking for radically new ideas and concepts - things no one has thought of before. To help you do that, we’ve invited people with strong ideas about what might influence our world in the next decades in fields such as medicine, technology and food.