By Editor Design.nl / 02-06-2010

DMY International Design Festival will take over Berlin from 9-13 June 2010. The headquarters for the event will be the new location of the former city airport Berlin Tempelhof.

The entrance hall and the huge hangars will host the central exhibition with product launches and experimental protoypes by more than 400 renowned and emerging designers, presentations by 17 international design schools, exhibition sections of this year’s Swiss design focus and works supplementing the symposium’s topic reflecting the cross roads between advanced technologies, digital media and design. Dutch exhibitors include Anna Ter Haar, Bauke Knottnerus, Studio Joon & Jung, Christoph Seyferth, Le Lab, De IntuitieFabriek, Maatlab and Simon Heijdens. Furthermore the central venue will invite you to join numerous events such as the Award Show, Open Design Workshops (Maker Lab), the Symposium, Designer Talks and Sunday Film Screenings.

Participants are chosen by recommendation from an international admission jury consisting of Jerszy Seymour (Jerszy Seymour Design Workshop), Werner Aisslinger (Studio Aisslinger), Jurgen Bey (Studio Makkink& Bey), Hella Jongerius (Jongeriuslab) and Patrick Reymond (Atelier OI) who will also designate the winners of the DMY Awards during the festival. Dutch Nomimees for DMY Awards are Daphna Isaacs, La Bolleur, Temporary Collective Arnhem, Pepe Heykoop.

Special exhibitions and symposia take a closer look at the cultural, aesthetic and social implications of contemporary design production. For this edition of DMY, the Symposium, 'Are nerds the new Designers?' will highlight advanced technologies, digital media and design. While the rise of digital media has certainly changed our everyday lives, it has also shifted the demands and possibilities within the design field. Today, 'digital native’ designers can draw on intelligent materials, enhanced production methods and face new fields of application. The symposium will pursue and reflect on the promises and potentials of these advanced technologies, including fields such as interaction and interface design, digital tools and production methods as well as tendencies to open and participatory design. Dutch speakers include Frans Vogelaar (designer, architect, researcher; founder, Hybrid Space Lab), Edial Dekker (journalist, social media expert) and Dingeman Kuilman (director, Premsela).

The DMY Maker Lab will be a celebration of Open Design through practice, presentations, and collaborative action, created by instigators and participants alike. Various workshop stations will invite the visitors to learn, play and build upon the design of others by providing a landscape of technologies and tools such as 3D printers, laser cutters, bio plastics, Arduino and other do-it-yourself technologies. Premsela's project (Un)limited Design makes an appearance here with an exhibition, workshops and open talks alongside a pop-up FabLab workshop where visitors can craft their own creations from computer-driven production machines. Participants will be able to submit projects again for the (Un)limited Design Contest which goes international.  

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