ODD - Open Design Day at Beckmans
October 18, 2024

A warm welcome to Beckman College of Design at Agavägen 54 on Lidingö! No pre-registration is needed, just show up.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided by the second year students of the Visual Communication program and will be available for sale during the day.

Program 18 October 10.00-17.00

Exhibitions

We show design here and now - a selection of courses that our students worked on during the fall are presented in three exhibitions:

• Design tools and methods: presentation of the course with lecturer Janne Loftén and the first years F27.
• Typography: Presentation of the course with lecturer Stefania Malmsten and the first years VK27. 
• Graphic identity and communication: Presentation of proposal for degree identity 2025 with lecturer Peter Ström and the third years VK25.
• Film from the 2024 graduation fashion show

Presentations & talks

We deepen perspectives and knowledge about design.

Excellent Swedish Web Art

10.00-10.50
How can we preserve digital design and what determines which websites are worth archiving? Associate Professor Peter Ström/Visual Communication has researched the history of Swedish web design and its place in the visual cultural heritage.

Are We There Yet?

11.00-11.30
How the difficult to understand is made understandable with visual communication. In a collaboration with researchers at the Beijer Institute, Beckmans students have created communication about antibiotic resistance that has now ended up in an exhibition at the UN in New York. Lecturer Sophia Wood/Visual Communication talks about the collaboration.

Graphic identity NOW.

11.30-12.00
What is it? Lecturer Laslo Strong/Visual Communication talks graphic identity with students in year 2 of the Visual Communication program.

Presentation of the course Graphic identity and communication

12.00-13.00 Viewing of the exhibition Graphic Identity and Communication by the students of class VK25.

Humanitarian Design Field Studies,
Stockholm-Doha-Lesbos

13.00-13.45
Report from another world. About working for humane values from inside a dictatorship. Assistant Professor Maja Kinnemark/ProductProduct design presents humanitarian design based on her own projects that she has run together with international students in Qatar and Greece.

The philosophy of failure.

14.00–14.45
Om misslyckandet som kreativ utgångspunkt och motstånd mot normer, där även akademin har klurat en del på detta som metod. Och vad menade Beckett egentligen med “Fail again, fail better”? Lisa Ehlin, docent och lektor/Konstnärliga och kontextuella studier.

Affect theory and new materialism

15.00-15.30
Artistic processes and aesthetics as a form of knowledge. Assistant Professor Elisabet Yanagisawa/ Mode presents her PhD project in artistic research at HDK/Valand, University of Gothenburg.

Critical fashion practice

15.45-16.30
Lecturers Maria Ben Saad and Göran Sundberg discuss fashion as a space for critical reflection, political action and artistic freedom. The conversation is based on the Critical Fashion Project, a research project from Beckmans focusing on the relations between fashion design practice and critical thinking.