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I'm super excited to be speaking at UX Scotland in June https://uxscotland.net/

https://uxscotland.net/programme/what-every-designer-can-learn-design-research-ux-humanitarian-human-rights-technologies

UX Scotland has been an aspiration speaking engagement for many years for me. I'm so happy to be speaking there this year and connecting with the fantastic roster of speakers and attendees on designing in humanitarian and human rights technology spaces.

(I also love that they chose a photo of me doing volunteer co-ordination for Bristol Pride Festival back in 2022!)

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Join host Fatima and our guest, the talented multidisciplinary designer Fatema, as we dive into the art of visual communication.
Tune in to explore the power of graphic design in shaping perceptions and telling stories.
Don’t miss this eye-opening discussion!

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Unlocking the power of feedback in your UX team!

A strong feedback culture leads to better designs, improved team collaboration, and happier users.

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Watch a talk on designing with waste live from Southern Sweden Design Days

The co-founder of Matter Displaced, an exhibition about designing using waste, will discuss the ideas behind the show in this live talk moderated by Dezeen as part of Southern Sweden Design Days. Watch the talk live from 12:15 Malmö time.

Matter Displaced is an exhibition highlighting Nordic designers, studios and companies that find waste materials locally and reuse them to create new designs.

Matter Displaced is an exhibition showing as part of Southern Sweden Design Days

It is being held as part of Southern Sweden Design Days, a new international design festival in Malmö taking place from 19-22 May.

Appearing on the panel will be Matter Displaced's co-founder Anna Gudmundsdottir, who is an industrial designer at Malmö Upcycling Service.

The exhibition's partners will be represented on the panel by Dag Duberg, Nordic sustainability manager at Tarkett, and Wickie Meier Engström, director and partner at Kvadrat Really.

The panel will be moderated by Dezeen's deputy editor Cajsa Carlson, and will interrogate the potential of treating waste as a resource in the design process.

Anna Gudmundsdottir is an industrial designer

Gudmundsdottir is an industrial designer based in Malmö who focuses on local manufacturing and circular design. She currently acts as a project leader at SPOK, an organisation researching and promoting local manufacturing.

She also founded the Malmö Upcycling Service, a design collective that makes use of discarded materials.

Gudmundsdottir co-founded Matter Displaced with Melissa Marie, a Malmö-based designer and founder of interdisciplinary design practice Studio Marie Karl.

Dag Duberg is Nordic sustainability manager at Tarkett

Duberg is Nordic sustainability manager at flooring brand Tarkett, where he works to put circular economy theories into practice in industry.

He has been working in the flooring industry for more than thirty years, and holds a masters degree in Industrial Economics & Organisation from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Wickie Meier Engström is director and partner at Kvadrat Really

Meier Engström is director and partner at Kvadrat Really, the upcycling-focussed arm of Danish textile company Kvadrat. She is a co-founder of Denmark's Index Design to Improve Life Awards, and has acted as an innovation consultant to organisations including Unicef Supply Division, Statoil and TrygFonden.

From 2011 to 2016, Meier Engström held the position of associate professor of Sustainable Design Strategies at the Esmod Design School in Berlin.

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Watch a talk exploring the future of biomaterials in fashion at London Craft Week

Dezeen has teamed up with London Craft Week to host a talk with Renewcell, Modern Synthesis and Pangaia exploring biomaterials and circular fashion. Tune in to the livestream from 7pm London time today.

Called Pioneering Innovation in Making, the talk will explore material innovation by looking at the proliferation of biomaterials in sustainable fashion and their wide-ranging applications – from furniture to footwear.

The event will take place at The Mills Fabrica's London concept store. Photo credit: Mariell Lind Hansen

It will explore the work of biomaterial company Modern Synthesis, sustainable textile company Renewcell, which specialises in creating high-quality materials made from recycled textiles, and materials science company Pangaia, which works with scientists, technologists and designers to create bio-engineered materials.

The event will be hosted by The Mills Fabrica, an innovation platform created to support tech and lifestyle companies in adopting more sustainable approaches.

The discussion will take place at The Mills Fabrica's London concept store, called Fabrica X, which features a selection of innovative fashion tech products and sustainable designs.

The talk will focus on material innovation and circularity in the fashion industry. Photo credit: Mariell Lind Hansen

Moderated by Dezeen deputy editor Cajsa Carlson, the panel comprises co-founder and CEO of Modern Synthesis Jen Keane, CEO of Renewcell Patrik Lundström and research and development director of Pangaia Craig Smith.

The panellists will discuss their individual approaches to material innovation and circularity in the fashion industry, as well as share their thoughts on how to encourage the adoption of these sustainable techniques on a global scale.

The talk takes place during London Craft Week. Photo credit: Mariell Lind Hansen

Panellists will also look at how biomaterials are being used in craft. They will discuss new materials and processes, some of which draw upon traditional practises and heritage techniques.

Keane of Modern Synthesis will talk about the role and importance of materials in relation to climate change and the role that microbes can play in paving a future to circular fashion.

She will expand on Modern Synthesis's microbial textile platform, which uses bacteria to grow new materials in a bid to curb the fashion industry's emissions and plastic pollution.

Jen Keane is co-founder and CEO of Modern Synthesis

Keane is a bio-designer and CEO of Modern Synthesis. Having studied Material Futures at Central Saint Martins and Fibre Science and Apparel Design at Cornell University, Keane went on to work for sportswear company Adidas, specialising in materials design and development.

Since then, she has gone on to co-found biotech company Modern Synthesis with Ben Reeve in London. The company specialises in crafting new materials using biology.

Modern Synthesis specialises in creating new materials with biology. Photo credit: Tom Mannion

Lundström of Renewcell will talk about the company's patented process of upcycling cellulose-based textile waste, such as cotton clothes, to transform it into a new material called Circulose.

In addition, Lundström will explain how a circular approach to design can be scaled up quickly to make meaningful impact, and how the use of man-made cellulosic fibre could form a viable means of achieving this.

Patrik Lundström is CEO of Renewcell

As CEO of Renewcell, Lundström leads the textile-to-textile recycling company with the aim to create a circular fashion industry on a global scale.

As part of London Craft Week, Renewcell unveiled an installation showcasing Circulose, which is made entirely from textile waste. The installation is available to visit until 15 May at Fabrica X.

Renewcell is behind the proprietary material called Circulose

Prior to joining the company, Lundström co-founded tech company JonDeTech and has worked with a number of corporations such as Royal DSM and General Electric.

Smith of Pangaia will talk about the company's approach to research and development in material innovation, as well as its ambition to democratise these innovations and make them accessible to businesses.

Craig Smith is the research and development director of Pangaia

Smith will also talk about the company's dedicated innovation arm, Pangaia Lab, and its recent launches.

He has worked in development and research-focused roles for over 14 years and has experience in commercialising materials and products, especially in the sporting goods sector.

Pangaia is a fashion brand that uses bio-engineered materials

Smith has worked on a number of high profile projects with brands such as Speedo, Adidas, Lacoste and Lululemon.

The talk takes place as part of London Craft Week, which brings together over 250 creatives in a citywide programme of talks, exhibitions, product launches and immersive experiences celebrating craft.

The week-long event takes place throughout Bloomsbury and Mayfair.

London Craft Week takes place from 9-15 May 2022. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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Nanna Ditzel's contribution to Danish design overlooked "because she was a woman"

Nanna Ditzel should be regarded as one of Denmark's best designers but has been "forgotten," according to speakers at a panel discussion hosted by Dezeen in collaboration with furniture brand Fredericia.

"She was considered the punk woman of Danish design," said Fredericia owner Thomas Graversen. "All the younger generation didn't dare to do what she did."

But he added that she was "more or less forgotten in Denmark".

"I have to conclude she was forgotten and probably because she was a woman," said Anders Byriel, CEO of Danish textile brand Kvadrat.

"I think she's in the top five Danish designers. She's up there with the big masters."

Nanna Ditzel. Photo courtesy of Fredericia

Ditzel, who died in 2005 aged 82, designed products for both Fredericia and Kvadrat and Graversen and Byriel knew her personally.

"Sometimes she took things further than maybe you thought you could do technically," said Graversen.

"She was taught as a cabinet maker but was truly an industrial designer," he added. "She designed maybe the most famous trains in Denmark; she did all this wonderful jewellery for Georg Jensen; she did a lot of household stuff like bowls and textiles."

"If you study her back catalogue, she has designed almost everything we use in daily life."

Ditzel deserved to be counted among design icons

Graversen and Byriel discussed the late designer's legacy at Fredericia's London showroom on 17 March in a conversation moderated by Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.

Both argued that Ditzel deserved to be counted amongst Danish design icons such as Hans J Wegner, Arne Jacobsen and Verner Panton.

Born in Copenhagen in 1923, Ditzel trained to become a cabinetmaker before going on to study at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen where she would meet her husband Jørgen Ditzel. They formed a design studio and worked together until his death in 1961.

"Jørgen died in 1961 when he was only 40 years old but when they were a couple, the attention was very much on Jørgen because he was the man. So after he died, she sort of stepped in and was in charge of everything herself," Graversen explained.

Ditzel's Butterfly chairs for Fredericia from 1990. Photo courtesy of Fredericia

Together with her husband, Ditzel designed products across a range of disciplines including furniture, textiles, wallpaper and homeware.

"People were living their daily lives maybe not knowing it was all designed by Nanna," Graversen said.

Following the death of her husband, Ditzel continued designing a slew of furniture and objects throughout her career including jewellery for Georg Jensen, several furniture pieces for Fredericia, including the 1993 Trinidad chair, and Kvadrat's first and best-selling textile Hallingdal.

Breaking free of restrictive design rules

Belonging to a generation of designers that followed icons such as Arne Jacobsen, Børge Mogensen and Hans J Wegner, Ditzel studied under the influential designer Kaare Klint at the Danish School of Arts and Crafts in 1942 and graduated as a cabinetmaker in 1943.

"She broke out of these very restrictive and formal rules of design that Klint was teaching," Graversen stated.

"If you saw the Trinidad chair in 1993 when it came out, it looked like something never seen before," he added. "Everyone was buying Jacobsen's Series 7 chair or the Ant chair but then suddenly someone dared to put ornamentation on a chair."

The Trinidad Chair designed by Ditzel for Fredericia in 1993. Photo courtesy of Fredericia

After the death of Jørgen Ditzel, Ditzel relocated to London where she ran the Interspace furniture store in Hampstead together with her second husband Kurt Heide until his death in 1985, after which she returned to Denmark.

Ditzel began working with Fredericia in 1989, designing several pieces such as the Bench for Two-seat and the Trinidad chair. She became the brand's second in-house designer after Mogensen.

"She came with a more sensitive kind of design to this very masculine Mogensen and Wegner era that everyone knew at the time and that was a lucky strike for us," Graversen explained.

The Ditzel Lounge chair designed by Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel in 1953. Photo courtesy of Fredericia

In 1965 Ditzel designed Hallingdal, Kvadrat's very first fabric, which it describes as "the archetype of woollen textiles".

"She was our first influential colourist," Byriel said. "A very important contribution for us and I think one of the most important colourists from the 1960s together with Verner Panton – at least from Scandinavia," he added.

Readjustment of the canon

The reevaluation of Ditzel's impact on Danish design history is part of a wider reassessment of design and architecture history in recent years, acknowledging the impact of women whose work has historically been overlooked in favour of their male peers.

Ditzel's Hallingdal textile for Kvadrat from 1965. Photo courtesy of Kvadrat

Examples include Lilly Reich, a Bauhaus professor who spent over a decade collaborating with architect Mies van der Rohe, Aino Marsio-Aalto, the wife and collaborator of architect Alvar Aalto, and Denise Scott Brown, the partner and widow of architect Robert Venturi who was excluded from her husband's 1991 Pritzker Prize recognition.

"In contemporary art, there's an adjustment of history, where you're going back and asking if we need to adjust the canon," Byriel said.

The panel argued that Ditzel's work served as a link between the canon of mid-century Danish design and a more contemporary generation of designers in Denmark, including Cecilie Manz and Maria Bruun.

Nanna Ditzel and her children. Photo courtesy of Fredericia.

"She was probably one of the links from the people who built mid-century [design]," Byriel said.

"I think that there will be a new generation who will look to her as their rock star," Graversen added.

Fredericia is a Danish furniture brand founded in 1911. Besides Ditzel, the brand also produces the designs of iconic Danish designers such as Mogensen and Wegner, as well as the work of contemporary designers including Manz and Jasper Morrison.

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