FRESH FISH 2011

FRESH FISH – Sveriges årliga modemässa och tävling – firar fem år! 

Under helgen går mässan av stapeln i Eriksbergshallen, Göteborg.

Fresh Fish riktar sig till lovande designers av kläder, skor, smycken och accessoarer. Omkring 30 utställare medverkar vid mässan som pågår under tre händelserika dagar. Juryn, som består av Mattias Lind (Julian Red), Per Andersson (Velour), Rasmus Wingårdh (NN.07) samt Viveka Bergström (Viveka Bergström), avgör på mässans sista dag vilka som är "Årets Fresh Fish". Nytt för i år är att två priser kommer att delas ut. Utöver utnämningen av den bästa kläddesignern så kommer också den bästa accessoar- & smyckesdesignern att koras.

För tredje året i rad gästas modemässan av internationella designers. Detta inslag, kallat NAGO “New Arrivals Gothenburg”, innebär ett utbyte med designskolor i olika länder. Detta årets NAGO- samarbete är med modeutbildningen på "Metropolia University of Applied Sciences" i Helsingfors, Finland. Några av dess elever kommer att besöka mässan och ha en separat visning varje dag. De kommer också att ha en egen monter där de visar upp sina alster.

Fresh Fish kommer på fredagen att invigas med hjälp av en stor fest som hålls på Yaki Da. Årets festtema, "4-Cities", är en hyllning till inspirerande mode och musik från några av världens olika hörn. Modemetropolerna Paris, London, New York & Milano är utvalda och har förstärkning från varje stad i form av en rad kända Dj's.

Datum: fredagen 27 maj - söndagen 29 maj

Plats: Eriksbergshallen, GBG

Pris: 100 SEK, biljetter köps på plats.

Övrigt: Regelbundna modevisningar under alla mässdagar.

Mat och dryck säljs i mässhallen.

Öppettider:

Fredag 27/5 10.00–19.00

Lördag 28/5 10.00–19.00

Söndag 29/5 10.00–17.00

Torsten och Wanja Söderbergs seminarium om Design Management

Hur kan design bidra till företags innovationsförmåga? Och vad händer när designers förmedlar sitt yrkeskunnande till företag med begränsad designerfarenhet? Kom och lyssna till företag och forskare från Business & Design Lab som berättar om sina tankar och erfarenheter från experimentell forskning. Du möter bland andra Ulla Johansson, innehavare av Torsten och Wanja Söderbergs professur i Design Management - den första av sitt slag i landet. Du bjuds också på en föreläsning om »Art, Design and Management« av Mary Jo Hatch, gästprofessor på Handelshögskolan.

Varmt välkommen till detta eftermiddagsseminarium som bjuder på samtidens och framtidens spännande frågor inom Design Management. Det bjuds på forkningsinsikter, utbildningserfarenheter, samarbetsmöjligheter, mingel och tilltugg.

Anmäl dig innan veckans slut via följande < hemsida >. 

PROGRAM

Servering av kaffe och tilltugg

VÄLKOMMEN

Evelina Wahlqvist, moderator
Anna Lindal, dekanus Konstnärliga fakulteten
Per Cramér, dekanus Handelshögskolan

HUR KAN DESIGN BIDRA TILL FÖRETAGS INNOVATIONSFÖRMÅGA?

Reflekterande samtal med:
Anna Rylander, Fil. Dr. forskare i design management
Marcus Jahnke, doktorand design
Katarina Wetter Edman, doktorand design
Marie Loft, projektledare SVID,
Stiftelsen Svensk Industridesign
Mikael Lunneryd, VD Macro
Klas Bertilsson, projektledare Alfa Laval
Patrik Westerlund, designer och VD Shift Design & Strategy
Charlotta Schill, designer ATOLL design
Cecilia Nilsson, designer Designstudio 56

HUR KAN FÖRETAG OCH ORGANISATIONER SAMARBETA MED MASTERUTBILDNINGEN BUSINESS & DESIGN?

Henning Eklund och Maria Tullberg, utbildningsansvariga för masterutbildningen

PAUS MED FÖRFRISKNINGAR OCH LÄTTARE TILLTUGG, TILLFÄLLE TILL FRÅGOR OCH SAMTAL

DESIGN MANAGEMENT, HISTORIA OCH FRAMTID

Ulla Johansson, innehavare av Torsten och Wanja Söderbergs professur i Design Management

ART, DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

Professor Mary Jo Hatch, gästprofessor vid Handelshögskolan
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Läs gärna mer om Business & Design Lab < här >.

business & design

I'm looking forward to giving a lecture tomorrow for the Business & Design master students at the University of Gothenburg. The master programme, which started in 2008, is being run as a partnership between between HDK School of Design and Crafts and the School of Business, Economics and Law. It has already made the BusinessWeek list on the World's Best Design Programmes. Take a closer look here.

à la mode

I och med mitt stora intresse för kreatörers karriärvägar blir jag förstås glad att notera att min lysande forskarkollega Christofer Pihl, som annars bloggar på Modearkivet, i detta nummer av MODS Magazine skriver om vad som väntar nyutexaminerade designer efter utbildningen. Läs här.

För övrigt kan jag påannonsera att Christofer Pihl håller en spännande föreläsning på Handelshögskolans dag den 10 oktober, kl 11-12 i sal B32, Vasagatan 1, Göteborg. Han kommer då att tala om 'Modebloggar - flugan som är här för att stanna'. Läs programmet för Handelshögskolans dag i sin helhet här.

pimpa din åker

BondeDesign 2010 står inför omröstning. I Hjö, Götene och Grästorp tävlar lantbrukare om att presentera det vinnande bidraget av ”konst i kolossalformat som endast kan skådas från himlen”. Konstverken använder åkern som palett och får innehålla för markerna naturligt förekommande färger såsom, grödor, buskage, vattendrag, vägar, stigar samt allt som bygger på de fyra elementen Jord, Luft, Eld och Vatten.

Foto från Almnäsfoten. Ta en titt på övriga tävlingsbidrag här.

workshop invitation: Creativity & Innovation

Creativity and Innovation: Old wine in new bottles or two discourses?
A key issue currently relates creativity and design with innovation. This workshop will focus upon what creativity means in the context of innovation and whether and how these are separate discourses – or on the contrary, can gain more from each other.

Friday April 23 at 13:00 to 16:00 h - Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Biotech House Seminar room (5th floor), Arvid Wallgrens Backe 20, Göteborg.

Programme:

13:00-13:10 Opening

13:10-14:00 Presentations on Creativity and Innovation:

Klaasjan Visscher, editor of ‘Creativity and Innovation Management’
Eighteen years of Creativity and Innovation Management; Analysis of a journal

Chrissie Tiller, expert on the intersections of arts, culture, education & business
Reclaiming Creativity

Otto von Busch, design researcher, haute couture heretic & DIY-demagogue
Hacking Innovation: A Non-linear Approach to Creativity

***read more about the speakers below

14:00-15:00 World Café on Creativity and Innovation,
Interactive workshop led by chaos pilot Rikard Jönsson

15:00-15:15 Break

15:15-16:00 Panel discussion moderated by Patrik Ström. Participants: Otto von Busch, Rikard Jönsson, Maureen McKelvey, Chrissie Tiller, Klaasjan Visscher.

16:00 Closing

16:00 - Informal get-together and refreshments.

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Dr. Otto von Busch is an haute couture heretic, DIY-demagogue and artistic researcher in fashion design. In his research, he explores how fashion design and production can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social activism. He is a researcher at the Business and Design Lab, School of Design and Craft, University of Gothenburg.

Rikard Jönsson is the CEO of Haptikat AB, a Malmö-based communication and interaction design company with the aim to affect all our senses. Being both trained in coaching and NLP, Rikard is also a chaos pilot with a three year education in creative project and process leading. Besides the challenge of inventing a new business area with his company, Rikard is furthermore the ambassador for the creative presentation format Pecha Kucha Malmö and organizer of TEDxÖresund. Rikard recently started contributing for magazines such as MacWorld.

Prof. Maureen McKelvey is hosting this seminar at the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is professor in industrial economy at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. Earlier, she has held several positions at Chalmers as well as being guest researcher at SCANCOR, Stanford University, and ”Innovator-in-Residence” at University of Queensland. McKelvey is internationally renowned for her research on innovation processes and the interaction of different actors within them.

Dr. Patrik Ström, Associate Professor and the "Staffan Helmfrid Pro Futura Fellow" at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, and the Department of Human and Economic Geography, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Ström holds a PhD in Business Administration and an Econ. Dr. in Economic Geography. His research focuses on the internationalization and development of the East Asian service economy.

Chrissie Tiller works as a facilitator, trainer, enabler, mentor, provoker and shaper in arts and culture, higher education and business. She is Course Director of the MA Artists in Society at Goldsmiths College, London University, as well as running her independent consultancy firm forming creativity programmes for the government and for international companies. She writes extensively on the subject of the arts and culture, and is an important voice in the Creative Industries debate.

Dr. Klaasjan Visscher is assistant professor at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He lectures on organization theory, innovation management, and design methodology. His research focuses on the design and evolution of innovating organizations. He has written several articles for professional and academic journals. Since 2008, Klaasjan Visscher is editor of Creativity and Innovation Management.

PLEASE REGISTER by the 19th of April with subject “Creativity and Innovation Seminar” to Marita.Nelin@handels.gu.se

We hope to see you there!

Best regards from the organizing team,

Evelina Wahlqvist, Rick Middel & Johan Brink

corporate design responsibility?

“Business schools in America have done nothing about corporate management’s responsibility for good design and aesthetics in business. Producers and retailers are often preoccupied with a concern for “Will it sell?”. Most people walk in ugliness in terms of architecture and merchandise.”

(Hoving & O’Brien (1975)“The Art of Design Management – Design in American Business”, The Tiffany/Wharton Lectures. New York: Tiffany & Co. p. 1)

This was written in 1975. 35 years later, I’m surprised that we still haven’t founded the expression ‘Corporate Design Responsibility’ – which could apply both to the corporate internal need to manage design processes, as well as to the aesthetic, social and environmental responsibility to the outer world, and furthermore to the fact that design focus might be the only way to survive for many traditional companies in times of socio-economic transition. When stressing the need for ‘Corporate Design Responsibility’, I’m addressing the responsibility of business leaders. Or as Hanks puts it (p. 91):

“The process of design involves the designer, user and client. The key to good design is in the hands of our business leaders – “they have the decision-making power to initiate good design and designers”. Too often, design is left to the lowest levels of corporate management. And, often, design is viewed as ‘decoration’, ‘frill’, or ‘superficiality.’”

Even though I’m calling for corporate design responsibility to firmly take place on the corporate agenda, I can happily conclude that things have evolved since 1975. Design is today not narrowed down to “‘decoration’, ‘frill’, or ‘superficiality’”. The term is now used in many circumstances and areas of society. This is what I concluded with a blog post on the very last day of 2009: word of the year: DESIGN.

word of the year : DESIGN

I’m looking back at 2009 and can easily conclude that design is the word of the year – in the spheres I’m covering and beyond. Design is not only about designing physical products – nor even services and experiences added - anymore. It is more. Design is now attitude, approach and even policy in many contexts. Design is the new watchword.

I’ll let a few examples of memorable happenings in my own life, during only the past months of November and December 2009, illustrate how the design concept has left its traditional territory. On November 3rd, I listened to the ever so inspirational management professor Ramnath Narayanswamy talking about the requirements on future leadership: “Managers and business leaders need to incorporate design thinking into their business…[They] need to act and think as designers.” Learn more about the occasion <here> .

Why settling with designing a business organization when an entire city can be subject to design thinking!? A month ago, Eindhoven Brainport sent me their latest publication. Subject: on how to win the title of World Design Capital 2012. With 47 cities signing up for the challenge, only two are left in the finale: Eindhoven vs. Helsinki. What is then the Eindhoven purpose of participating in the competition? In their own words: “The ‘World Design Capital' title will help Eindhoven strengthen the socio-economic development of the city by using design to address social issues, technological innovations and urban development. It also offers Eindhoven, as main city of the Brainport region, an international podium on which to present its design profile.”

Then, why settling with designing city life if one could design away globally problematic issues!? As Harri Koskinen, one of the leading contemporary Finnish designers, received the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg’s Prize in Gothenburg on November 4th, I was pretty amused when listening to the Finnish ambassador’s dinner speech dealing with how design now is everywhere. Today, we’re even designing society to cope with environmental threats such as climate change, was his argument.

Design is hence not just on the subject; it is on every subject. How did that happen? And why did it happen? These are questions I’d love to hear plausible answers to. My guess is that we’re finally starting to recognise the intrinsic value of the design process – a process that can be applicable in other spheres and functions. As I conclude, after studying creative arts school contribution and design graduates’ careers, the process orientation and process awareness is probably higher in design than in most other disciplines. Furthermore, the design process is creative in nature as it allows for “many creative surprises and developments on the way to the final result”, to quote myself from the report making art Work.

While in 2009 being acceleratingly more frequently used; what will happen with the design concept in 2010? Most likely, we’ll move beyond the trendy use of the word and actually start defining its characteristics for real. (What is essentially defining the design process?) In 2011, we might actually start identifying the consequences of integrating design thinking into every aspect of life. Or should I give it a few more years!?

Last but not least; If I was amused by the words of the Finnish ambassador, I was rather tickled by the speech of Ted Hesselbom, manager of the Röhsska Museum of Fashion, Design and Decorative Arts in Gothenburg. At the same occasion he proclaimed that “Modernism is dead”. Perhaps one should add: Designism is replacing its stance. I’m thinking it might just work as a more tolerant and flexible guiding star for the next decade. Let’s hope so.

world top teaching in design thinking

A BusinessWeek special report on How to Nurture Future Leaders. “Design thinking brings creative techniques to business. The only problem? No one can agree on how to teach its methods”, are the first words of the interesting article by Venessa Wong. BusinessWeek furthermore lists the world’s 30 best design schools. Note how Umeå University’s Master's in Industrial Design hits 27th place. A nice surprise is that University of Gothenburg’s very new Master's in Business & Design, started only in 2008, makes an entrance to the list. The two-year master's is a partnership between the School of Business, Economics and Law and HDK School of Design and Crafts.