From the 2024 Graduation Exhibition. Photo: Katrine Worsøe

From the 2024 Graduation Exhibition. Photo: Katrine Worsøe

03 Jun 2025 /

DO Something – design that makes a difference

How do designers respond to climate change, social inequality, and rapid technological shifts – or to the small everyday challenges that shape our lives and communities? Find the answers at Kolding School of Design’s 2025 Graduation Show "DO Something – Designing in Turbulent Times".
By Marianne Baggesen Hilger

From 28 June to 1 July, we open our doors to celebrate creativity, curiosity, and courage. More than 80 graduating students – both BA and MA – present their visions of how design can be a driving force in a turbulent world. These are experiments, solutions, and ideas that move and challenge – and that show how design can shape the future with care, insight, and boldness.

Discover stage costumes made from recycled materials, where artistic identity meets sustainability. Try a dialogue tool that helps educators talk about sexuality and wellbeing with people with disabilities. See how children’s experience of cemeteries can be transformed through play, comfort, and thoughtful design.

Explore curtains that bring calm and dreaminess to an open-plan office through colour and sensory textiles. Experience how avant-garde fashion blends sculptural forms with comfort, function, and durability through digital tools and material experiments.

Meet the small but significant designs – like a pendant lamp that shifts with the mood around the dinner table, or a new eyewear hinge combining function and aesthetics. Dive into typography that doesn’t just communicate, but creates a sense of time, place, and presence.

All that – and much more…

Free entry. The exhibition is open to everyone – design lovers, partners, and curious visitors alike. Special events will take place throughout the four days. Follow us on our website and social media for updates.

Open daily from 11:00 to 16:00, 28 June – 1 July 2025

Come and see how design can make a difference – and meet the ones who are making it happen!

Kolding School of Design, Ågade 10, 6000 Kolding.

Thank you Augustinus Foundation, Den Faberske Fond, EWII, Frimodt-Heineke Fonden, Tage Vanggaard og Hustrus Fond.

Graduation Show 2025
From the 2024 Graduation Exhibition. Photo: Katrine Worsøe

From the 2024 Graduation Exhibition. Photo: Katrine Worsøe

Contact

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Marianne Baggesen Hilger
Senior Communications Specialist