In her graduation project, Re-setting the Table, designer Rosa Floris explores how mealtimes can be made more inclusive for people with Parkinson’s – and how eating can become a shared process shaped by collaboration, adaptation and room for different bodies. Rosa holds a master’s degree in industrial design, specialising in design for play. The project was developed in collaboration with the Danish Parkinson’s Association.
New designers turn complex challenges into tangible possibilities
Throughout their studies, the graduating designers have explored subjects ranging from materials, technology and sustainability to wellbeing, communities and new ways of living and working. The resulting projects demonstrate not only what design can be, but also the role it can play in responding to a world shaped by change.
Across the exhibition, the projects reveal designers who engage closely with both major societal challenges and the situations we encounter in everyday life. They explore, among other things, how schools can make more room for neurodivergent children, how shared meals can include people whose bodies do not conform to conventional ideas of control and independence, and how communication can challenge prejudice towards people experiencing homelessness.
Other projects focus on the products and materials that surround us. These include furniture designed to be more easily disassembled, repaired and adapted; flexible lighting for the home’s changing activities; and textiles and garments in which slow craftsmanship, reuse and considered material choices offer alternatives to overproduction. Jewellery is also used to make values such as community, diversity and opportunity tangible and perceptible.
Many of the projects share an ambition not only to develop products, but also to challenge the norms, systems and habits that shape our lives. Design thus becomes a means of enabling greater participation, making better use of resources and creating more space for different people, needs and ways of living.
In-depth exploration across design disciplines
The graduation exhibition brings together both bachelor’s and master’s projects, giving visitors the opportunity to experience finished solutions, experiments and investigative processes across the school’s programmes and design disciplines.
While the bachelor’s programme provides students with a broad theoretical and practical foundation in areas including design methods, concept development and material understanding, the master’s programme enables students to develop their design practice further through specialisation in sustainability, design for people or design for play.
Skills that can create change
The graduating designers enter the world equipped with the skills to investigate needs, involve people and translate complex challenges into tangible and sensory proposals. They can develop products, materials, communication and services, build prototypes and facilitate collaboration across disciplines.
They can therefore contribute to companies and organisations seeking to understand their users more deeply, rethink their solutions and work more responsibly with people and resources.
Admission to the exhibition is free, and everyone is welcome.
Kolding School of Design
Ågade 10, 6000 Kolding
27 June–2 July 2026
Open daily from 12 noon to 4 pm
The exhibition is supported by EWII and the Municipality of Kolding.
In her graduation project, Someone Like You and Me, communication design bachelor Kaya Eggers Rossau developed a podcast and campaign concept that shares the life stories of Hus Forbi vendors and challenges prejudices about homelessness.
In her graduation project, Light in Balance, industrial design bachelor Sarah Kjær Sørensen created an adjustable dining table lamp that can be adapted for everything from focused work to shared meals and relaxed moments. Collaboration partner: VE2.
In her graduation project, Someone Like You and Me, communication design bachelor Kaya Eggers Rossau developed a podcast and campaign concept that shares the life stories of Hus Forbi vendors and challenges prejudices about homelessness.
In her graduation project, A Space to Be, designer Thea Heering Surrow developed a mobile, sensory kit that helps neurodivergent children find calm, feel safe and participate in school life on their own terms. Thea holds a master’s degree in communication design, specialising in design for people. Collaboration partner: DrakonHeart.
In her graduation project, From Construction to Furniture, designer Iben Iuel Hersoug developed a modular shelving system that can be disassembled, repaired and adapted over time – offering a more circular approach to furniture design. Iben holds a master’s degree in industrial design, specialising in design for sustainability. Collaboration partner: Minus Furniture.
In her graduation project, 2026 – A Series of Contemporary Jewellery, accessory design bachelor Rikke Gjerluf Stentebjerg Christensen translated young people’s perspectives on opportunity, community and diversity into tactile, interactive pieces of jewellery that invite reflection and conversation.
