How do you shape the designers of the future? How does talent become expertise, materials become possibilities, and play become insight?

Kolding School of Design’s exhibition at this year’s 3daysofdesign is an invitation into the transformative space where emerging designers take root and design solutions begin to take form. The exhibition showcases a selection of projects – from bachelor to PhD level – offering not just the final outcomes, but the journey itself: sketches, experiments, prototypes and exercises.

Under the title ‘This is Kolding School of Design’, the exhibition is built using interiors and materials taken directly from the school’s newly renovated building in Kolding. The scenography is the school itself.

Come and experience a living narrative of design. See how students, lecturers and researchers explore, challenge and invent. How they shape ideas with their hands and think through materials. The exhibition is accompanied by events, talks and guided tours – all set in an atmosphere that mirrors the school’s own, with a clear focus on the future of design.

Come visit Kolding School of Design at 3daysofdesign 18 - 20 June.

Opening hours
10 - 18

Venue
Papirøen 1, 1436 Copenhagen
District Holmen

10:00 - 11:00 
Joint opening 
Join us for the opening of our 3daysofdesign exhibitions on Paper Island, featuring separate showcases from Kolding School of Design and the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås.

15:00 - 15:45 
Spatial Colour by Maria Kirk Mikkelsen, PhD Fellow, Designer 
Known for her poetic approach to colour, Maria Kirk Mikkelsen invites you to experience her permanent textile installation ‘Set a Sun’ exploring light, space, and perception – where colour creates atmosphere and embodies sensuous insight, and practice becomes research made tangible.

16:00 - 18:00 
Guided tours 
Join for guided tours of the exhibition, offering insight into the featured projects and the ideas behind them. Meet the students and faculty, and engage in conversations about process, practice, and perspectives in design.

13:00 - 13:45
Words on Form by Anne Katrine Gelting, Teaching Ass. Prof.
What can be said about form—beyond 'nice' or 'cool' or 'beautiful'? Anne Katrine G. Gelting brings deep design experience to her talk on ’Words on Form’, a booklet she created to help students and designers describe, analyse and shape form. She’ll share insights and show how it’s used in teaching.

14:00 - 16:00
Guided tours
Join for guided tours of the exhibition, offering insight into the featured projects and the ideas behind them. Meet the students and faculty, and engage in conversations about process, practice, and perspectives in design.

10:00 - 11:00
Designing for Playful Tension by Jess Rahbek, PhD, Ass. Prof.
Play Design expert Jess Rahbek is sure to inspire as he presents his Playful Tension model – a design tool developed with the LEGO House team to support designerly reflection on the nature of play and the playthings we create. Joined by MA student Pedro Giaculli. Moderator: Anni Nørskov Mørch.

11:00 - 13:00
Guided tours
Join for guided tours of the exhibition, offering insight into the featured projects and the ideas behind them. Meet the students and faculty, and engage in conversations about process, practice, and perspectives in design.