SSDD Studio

Swedish Design Therapy – a session for design lovers with climate anxiety

We love design and are convinced that good design can change the world for the better. But at the same time climate change continues to endanger our planet, we produce and consume way too much. The window on a liveable future will close if we don't act now. How do we deal with and act on all these mixed feelings?

IKEA about being a friendly rebel: The past, the present and the future

For 80 years IKEA has been the happy rebels furnishing homes all over the world. In this talk they will explore where dissonance has been an important component to create great design and what could be some of the dissonances for today. Sharing some thoughts connecting the past, the present and the future through one of their upcoming collections called Nytillverkad.

From dissonance to balance in design contracts

Katarina Renman Claesson and Christina Wainikka will talk with designer Sara Torsson Szyber about the new provisions and how they will affect new and existing license agreements. The conversation also covers the Swedish Artists' Association's "Recommendations for Design Commissions."

What does politics want with the creative industries?

A conversation about the challenges and opportunities of the creative industries together with two regional cultural politicians. Participants: Fredrik Sjögren (L), chairman of the culture committee in Region Skåne, Janne Grönholm (MP), chairman of the cultural committee in Malmö city

The 4 elements

The 4 Elements is an art concept consisting of four separate pieces that can be combined in different ways to achieve different effects through different exhibition designs. The four pieces represent the four elements: WATER, EARTH, AIR and FIRE. At the heart of the concept is one of humanity's biggest threats: climate change. The goal of the project is to instill hope and strength in the youth who today feel depressed and have a dark view of the future.

Dance Deadwood Dance

Deadwood in focus, and a making of a diverse system that does not always resonate with our current. The performance will use projection from a place in the center of a forest that we call the heart. Some artefacts in wood and organic forest clay will be samples in a storytelling and movement performance that will bring you there to meet the substance of Deadwood. This performance will include improvised sound and light elements

A spray painters portrait

"It was a process painting where I was looking for a motive to paint. When I started painting, I didn't have a drawn sketch from the beginning, but I had inspirational pictures that I liked. For me, it became an existential motive about how a person comes to be." In the film, you get to follow Ajja's work and her process into a beautiful motive with emotions and strong perspectives.

The 4 elements - The documentary

In The 4 Elements - The documentary, we get to follow artist Ola Sivhed's work in creating the project T4e - an art project that aims to create attention and discussion around the climate crisis and which, after its premiere exhibition on behalf of the President of the Seychelles, has received an official invitation to the exhibition Personal Spaces at the European Culture Center during the Venice Biennale 2024.

Voice, we’ve never heard before

A design project centered around disability raising awareness and dialogue about disability right in South Korea and Nordic countries.

Precious Balance Walk

The film Precious Balance Walk by Felicia Konrad and Johan Haugen will be screened as part of the exhibition at Locally Alien Festival. 6 Nordic Performance Artists were invited to perform in and with the water in the Sound, Malmö, Sweden. Filmed between bridge 1 and 2 at Ribersborgs beach, August 2019.