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All practical information for you who will participate in Southern Sweden Design Days

SSDD25-ECHO

Southern Sweden Design Days is celebrating its 5th anniversary and we look forward to designing Malmö's design festival together with you! 22–25 May is the fifth edition with a focus on sustainability, cooperation, development and innovation. The design festival is organised by Form/Design Center.

Southern Sweden Design Days 2023

Open Call

Take the chance to be part of Southern Sweden Design Days 2025! Register your participation between 1 November and 15 January and take part in the design festival on 22–25 May. Through your participation, you will have the opportunity to reach a wide audience through exciting program activities.

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ECHO

Theme 2025 – ECHO

The theme for Southern Sweden Design Days is 'ECHO' and encourages exploration of the dynamic relationship between the past, present, and future. Like an echo, design is not isolated—it resonates, evolves, and influences its surroundings. Every design solution creates ripples, impacting both the environments it exists in and the people who interact with it.

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Formats and locations for participation

Take part in an exhibition, hold a seminar, arrange a workshop or create an outdoor installation. Other program formats such as fashion shows, guided shows or networking events also provide fantastic opportunities to reach a broad and engaged audience.

You can participate from any location in Malmö, the whole city is filled with design for four days. Southern Sweden Design Days also has a Main location, Lokstallarna in Kirseberg.

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Main Location, Lokstallarna

Main Location

The design festival's Main Location is Lokstallarna in Kirseberg. The venue's 6,000 m2 accommodates exhibitions, seminars, workshops and activities.

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Aplace

In the city

You can participate with your program activity in your studio, outdoors, in a shop or why not in a completely new, unexpected place in Malmö?

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23 Jan: Info meeting about locations

Welcome to an open mic/information meeting about locations where various proposals for available places/locations will be presented for participants in Southern Sweden Design Days 2025.

Register here
SSDD Studio 2024

SSDD Studio

Do you want to arrange a talk, seminar, workshop, entertainment, etc.? You can apply to hold a program point in the studio at the Main Location live in front of an audience.

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SSDD Junior

SSDD Junior

As a participant, you can apply to arrange an activity for children either in our workshop space at the Main location, or at any location in Malmö.

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Pre-SSDD

Exhibit in Folkets Park during PRE-SSDD

28 March – 21 April, showcase your program activity as a sneak peek before Southern Sweden Design Days takes place in the outdoor exhibition PRE-SSDD in Folkets Park in Malmö. As a participant you will have the opportunity to showcase your process and visions to a broad audience.

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Deadlines

22 Oct: Community Gathering at Form/Design Center
1 Nov – 15 Jan: Registration to SSDD 2025
23 Jan: Information meeting about locations, register here »
10 March: Finalize program activity on the website
5 – 15 May: Pick up location materials at Form/Design Center
22 – 25 May: Southern Sweden Design Days 2025. Register visitor statistics
25 May – 10 June: Submit visitor statistics and evaluation for your location

See all important dates here

FAQ

Here you will find answers to common questions about participation in Southern Sweden Design Days 2025. Regardless of whether you are an individual creator, a company or an institution, you can participate in the festival and showcase your work. Read on for information on who can participate, how to register, costs, deadlines and other important details for your participation.

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