The visitors will be welcomed to the “Test Zone” prepared by the Tabanda group of designers. It is an interactive exhibition and creative playground in one, featuring four kinds of material: wood, paper, metal, and fabrics. The artists will attempt to demonstrate how materials, processed in the human brain and by human hands, take form and become examples of architecture, design, or artistic installations.

The process of designing has also claimed the attention of Dennis Elbers and Sven Ehmann, the Curators of the “Resolute – Design Changes Project”. They have scrutinized the current status of social responsibility of designers, and traced the designing processes back to find out how they make it possible to shape society, and how the way of perceiving design by people changes.

What is characteristic for the contemporary world cultures? You will be able to find out when visiting the City Lust installation prepared especially for the Festival by Charlie Koolhas. The artist will invite the viewers to join her on an unusual trip over five contemporary cities, attempting to change the participants’ perspective so that they could give a miss to differences and focus on correlations, similarities, and interdependences.

As for Juli Capela, he has selected his artists according to the criterion enabling presentation of the contemporary Spanish avant-garde in its full diversity. The “Bravos” exhibition covers 21 designs by 21 designers. What is common to all of them includes the age of the artists: all of them were born after 1960.

The “make me!” competition is a key event of the Lodz Design Festival. Held since the second edition of the Festival, it is addressed to designers, makers, students and graduates, especially from art and design disciplines, who have just started their adventure with creating objects that have the potential to be implemented.

Works are evaluated in two stages, by a specially-selected jury with diversified interests. At first, they analyse the submissions and select the best 20 out of them to be displayed in the post-competition exhibition during the Festival. In the second stage, they examine the “real” pre selected prototypes and select the winner  to receive the main prize.