Zlin Design Week is a place where creativity, innovation and tradition meet at the same time and in the same place, and where all participants can contribute to shaping the future of design in the city that is rightly called the city of innovation.
Zlin Design Week is an week-long annual festival focused on design, creativity and innovation, held in the city of Zlín, known for its rich industrial heritage and innovative spirit. The event brings together students from Tomas Bata University, professionals, designers and the general public from Czech and international audience to share new ideas, trends and approaches to design. The whole ZDW project was created at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomas Bata University in Zlín thanks to the interdisciplinary cooperation of design, marketing, photography, and audiovisual.
This year ZDW run 10th year anniversary and it was 3rd year with service design area of interest centre of industrial production and world shoe empire build and developed by Tomáš Baťa. I tried to describe highlights from this event and the city, hope I turn you to take part of it next year!
The future of design will belong to those who can combine creativity with logical thinking and the ability to collaborate across different disciplines. This is the main message from experts from different spheres of design and innovation who took part in Zlin Design Week 2024. This was why I attend as a student this event for inspiration.
The opening event of the festival was an exhibition in Zlín Castle dedicated to the future in design called Future is! Highlights for me were speculative design projects with video installations from the world-renowned and leading studio Superflux, where are translating future uncertainty into present day choices using design methods. Other areas...
I visited Zlín for five days in May 24 to get inspiration from Zlin Design Week for my study of information service design and came back full of positive impressions, impressions and information that gradually fit together like puzzle pieces and connect into new skills for the world of innovation that we are gradually shaping using service design...