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About Southern Sweden Design Days

22–25 May 2025, the fifth edition of Southern Sweden Design Days will take place – an international design festival in Malmö. Southern Sweden Design Days invites visitors from all over the world to experience the best the creative southern Swedish design region has to offer. 

Southern Sweden Design Days 2021 was the start of a new annual event that highlights and builds knowledge about design – focusing on sustainability, collaboration, development and innovation. For four days, a platform is created showcasing a full range of design disciplines through seminars, workshops, exhibitions and networking events. Southern Sweden Design Days is organised by Form/Design Center – the main venue for architecture, design and crafts in southern Sweden.

Open to all

Southern Sweden Design Days is aimed at a design-interested public as well as professional visitors. With a train ride only 30 minutes from Copenhagen, Malmö is a central hub for creativity, sustainability and culture. The participants are active in design, architecture and crafts and count both individual practitioners, offices, studios and collectives, producers and companies active in the field of design, colleges and universities, cultural institutions as well as industry organisations and associations.

See you in may!

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SSDD 2024

The fourth edition of the design festival took place 23–26 May 2024. On the theme "CARE", the festival offered 166 program activities spread over 70 locations in Malmö. Visitors could participate in exhibitions, workshops, seminars and other events, and the city was filled with creativity and festivities during the four days.

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Southern Sweden Design Days 2023

SSDD 2023

The third edition was held in May 2023 with the theme "Dissonance". With over 160 program activities spread over more than 60 locations in Malmö, the festival attracted approximately 30,000 visitors. During these days, the city was filled with design experiences and the festival became a lively meeting place for all those interested in design.

SSDD 2023
Southern Sweden Design Days 2022

SSDD 2022

Southern Sweden Design Days 2022 had the theme "Proximity – proximity in time, space or relationships" and attracted 21,250 visitors over the four days. The festival gathered 390 participants and offered 125 program activities that explored the many aspects and orientations of design. During these days, Malmö became a bubbling city filled with creativity and inspiration.

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SSDD 2021

The premiere 2021

The kick-off and first edition of Southern Sweden Design Days was held in 2021 with the theme "1 + 1 = 3", which encouraged collaboration and cross-fertilization between different design fields. Despite the restrictions of the pandemic, the festival managed to gather 11,400 visitors and offer 80 digital and physical program points around Malmö. See the content from SSDD Studio 2021 here:

SSDD Studio Thursday

SSDD Studio Friday

SSDD Studio Saturday