WIDD 2019 Events and Mini-jams

WIDD 2019 Mini-Jam in Tokyo

Date: 29 June 2019

Country: Japan

A one-day ideathon and hackathon to identify our local challenges and make a rough prototype to address the goal of “Responsible Consumption and Production”.

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Designing the Sustainable Journey of Food Mini-Jam

Date: 29 June 2019

Country: Turkey

The mini-jam, in collaboration with the Mediterranean Academy (acting under Izmir Metropolitan Municipality) will bring together alternative food communities, small-and-medium-scale agricultural and food-processing cooperatives and the design community in Izmir to explore sustainable ways for delivering/transferring the food from producer to consumer within system, service and product design solutions

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WIDD 2019 Mini-Jam in Hong Kong

Date: 29 June 2019

Country: Hong Kong

Design Sprints and prototyping activities using the WIDD Jamkit methods and tools to consider solutions to SDG12 challenges.

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WIDD 2019 Mini-Jam in Geelong

Date: 29 June 2019

Country: Australia

A one day rapid prototyping workshop addressing issues of production and consumption through SDG12 within the theme of Cradle to Cradle Construction, working in teams utilizing design thinking tools and strategies to develop innovative solutions to problems within the Geelong area.

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WIDD 2019 Mini-Jam in Guatemala

Date: 27 June

Country: Guatemala

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Design Sprint/Mini-Jam in Gent

Date: 11 July

Country: Belgium

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WIDD 2019 Mini-Jam in Bariloche

Date: 28 June

Country: Argentina

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Event: WIDD 2019 Cocktail

Host: ADIQ

Date: 27 June

Country: Canada

ADIQ will celebrate WIDD 2019 with a cocktail at the Maison du Développement Durable (Montreal) and the announcement of the winners of the INCUBADIQ contest.

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Event: See the Ocean Smile

Host: Golden Pin Design Award

Date: 29 June

Country: Taiwan

See the Ocean Smile’ is a toy collection that teaches children about marine plastic pollution and its affect on marine life. The collection contains puzzles and story cards, all made from sustainable materials such as wood and paper, which attempt to communicate the issue in a playful way. The idea of marine pollution and its impact is difficult for children to understand, therefore the toys focus on children’s emotional response to the stories, activities, and puzzles.

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Event: Design Dialogues

Host: Association of Designers of India (ADI) Pune Branch

Date: 29 June

Country: India

‘Less but Better’ is one step towards making conscious efforts as industrial designers to change our consumption and production patterns and work towards a circular economy. It helps us wonder how might we design mindful products, services and change patterns by focusing on “doing more and better with less”. ADI Pune Chapter invites everyone to celebrate this day and engage in Design Dialogues around ‘Less but Better’ with a series of exciting speakers and thinkers.

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Event: WIDD 2019

Host: Design Institute of Australia VIC TAS Branch

Date: 27 June

Country: Australia

An exclusive networking event for design professionals, graduates and students alike practising industrial design. Attendees are invited to engage with other designers from large to small practices and everything in between to reflect on the work and the future impacts on industrial design

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Event: ECO: World Industrial design Week 2019

Host: Benildean Industrial Designers – BIND

Date: 18 June

Country: Philippines

This is a 4 day celebration filled with stimulating activities such as: Talks, Workshops, Exhibits, Games, and Competitions! ECO gathers students and professionals from all over the country to partake in discovering the many wonders of Design, and how we can utilize these discoveries to help save our environment, in line with this years theme, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) # 12: Responsible consumption and production.

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Event: WIDD Frankfurt

Host: iconstorm

Date: 26 June

Country: Germany

An evening gathering speakers around the topic of the roles of industrial design in a smart world, with lots of inspiration and new ideas.

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Event: ID x 2019: Responsible Consumption and Production

Host: Design Center of the Phillipines

Date: 29 June

Country: Phillipines

Design Center presents IDx, a new platform for different creative voices to come together and realize a shared vision of a better world. IDx addresses SDG 12 through a series of thought-provoking discussions on the circular economy.

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Event: WIDD@QUT

Host: Queensland University of Technonlogy

Date: 28 June

Country: Australia

A student design competition and an industry discussion panel on design and sustainability, featuring alumni and industry representatives from companies like Five mile radius, QMI Solutions, Symplicit, Spruson & Ferguson.

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Event: Panel and Documentary Presentation

Host: Industrial Designers Society of Turkey (ETMK) and Atolye

Date: 29 June

Country: Turkey

Event: Responsible Consumption and Production: Panel and Graduation Project Presentations, accompanied by design schools graduation projects exhibition

Host: Industrial Designers committee of UCTEA Chamber of Architects, Industrial Designers Society of Turkey (ETMK)

Date: Panel and Presentations: 24 June 2019, Exhibition 24 June-01 July 2019

Country: Turkey

The event comprised of a seminar about “Responsible Consumption and Production” and “Sustainability” concepts which provided a theoretical background for graduation project presentations from each of five Industrial Design Schools followed by a discussion in which the panelists shared their academic and professional experiences on the impact of industrial design on “responsible consumption and production”. An exhibition of selected graduation projects from five schools accompanied the event and held on 24 June – 1 July 2019. A cocktail party to celebrate World Industrial Design Day and to open the exhibition of selected graduation projects followed the panel.

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Event: Panel and Students Presentations

Host: Robins Design Center/Schema/La Europa Ceramica/ALNO

Date: 29 June

Country: Philippines

Design 2 Succeed or D2S is a follow up event to Design to Succeed. A quarterly forum held here at Robins Design Center that aims to inspire and educate designers and enthusiasts alike about design and current trends. The talk is in celebration with World Industrial Design Day.

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Event: Celebration on social media

Host: Desall

Date: 29 June

Celebrate #WIDD2019 on social media with Desall, on #Desallcom. Share your best #design projects using the official hashtag #WIDD2019

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Event: Commitment to the environment

Host: POINT1920

Date: 29 June

As WIDD 2019 focuses on UN SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production, WDO member Point share with us their motto to commit to the environment by designing furniture collections with production processes that are respectful of the environment.

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Event: Distributed Hardware Hackathon

Host: Wikifactory

Date: 28-30 June

This hackathon is dedicated to the challenge of building a documentation assistant that on command takes photos/videos and even converts speech to text, for the betterment of the quality of project documentation, for educational resources and open source projects.

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Event: Italy: Design, Politics and Democracy in the 20th century Conference

Host: Politecnico Di Torino and AIS/Design

Date: 28-29 June

The AIS/Design IV congress carrying the theme ‘Italy: design, politics and democracy in the 20th century’ featured speeches from renowned Italian figures, on Clandestine Design, Resistance and Critical Conscience, Design as a political and formative project and Design between Freedom, Utopias and Cultural Politics – in collaboration with the Architecture Department of the Politecnico di Torino.

Event: Lumium Design celebrates WIDD 2019

Host: Lumium Design

Date: 29 June

A sculpture created out of plastic & electronics waste helped spreading awareness among the community on UN SDG12 – Responsible Consumption and Production, part of Lumium Design’s #WIDD2019 celebration.

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Event: Launching Design Challenge

Host: Government of Telangana, in association with industry body CII

Date: 29 June

A design challenge for under-graduate and post-graduate students in the run-up to the World Design Assembly, with a view to devise solutions for five problems — design a unique water bottle to reduce plastic pollution; design a universally recognisable symbol/logo for persons agnostic of culture, academic and socio-economic backgrounds for (a) warnings for danger, keep out (b) toilets (c) chemist shop (d) medical facility (e) zebra crossing; design interventions to alter human behaviour and create a more civil society; help reduce weight of school bags; and a conserve and reuse water mechanism for households.

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Event: Let Valencian design shine in the World Industrial Design Day – online event

Host: WDC2022 shortlisted city Valencia

Date: 29 June

Sharing projects in RRSS under the hastags # WIDD2019 # ValenciaWDC2022 and through Twitter and Facebook to value Valencian design as a model of change for respecting the environment and reinforce the message for Valencia to become the World Capital of Design.

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Event: Design Bootcamp

Host: ID WEEK

Date: 29 June

Sivar Producciones has planned a journey full of design and the endless options that design can provide to youth in at risk communities to thrive opportunities. With a graphic designer and a videogames designer, IDWEEK will be participating at the discussion panel about how industrial design can open a lot of opportunities in El Salvador.

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