DESIGN+ SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT

Special event as part of “Swedish Design Goes Moscow” exhibition

Organized by: Moscow Design Museum, Swedish Embassy, Vinzavod

Address: Moscow, 4th Siromyatnicheskiy pereulok, 1/8, Vinzavod, tseh Krasnogo

Moscow Design Museum and the Swedish Embassy in Moscow have prepared a special event “Design + society and government” for professionals and those interested in design processes and technologies.  The experts’ panel discussion will be devoted to designers collaboration with European and Russian state institutions. New projects and programs will be presented.

13:00  Lecture “Back to the Earth – modern space technologies in down-to-earth conditions”. Cecilia Hertz, founder and director of design studio Umbilical Design (Sweden)

14:00 Guided tour of the exhibition (in English and in Russian)

14:30 Lecture “Upcoming trends in Swedish design”. Ewa Kumlin, director of Svensk Form

Topics: Designers work for government order, Government support program for designers

Participants: 

Alina Yugrina – Principal Adviser the Russian MIT Strategic Development Department

Alexandra Sankova – Director of Moscow Design Museum 

Vladimir Pirozhkov – Industrial Designer

Sergey Smirnov – Director of Smirnovdesign Company 

“Swedish Design Goes Moscow” Exhibition. 07 June – 04 July

Address: Moscow, 4th Siromyatnicheskiy pereulok, 1/8, Vinzavod, tseh Krasnogo

All the exhibition objects reflect the Scandinavian design aesthetics and functionality, as well as it unique capability to conjoin modern technologies, actual social demands and Human-to-Nature basic principals.