ŁDF / Schedule
Schedule of Łódź Design Festival 2025 | 20-25.05.2025
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Event
Opening of Łódź Design Festival 2023

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Official opening of Łódź Design Festival 2023.

Event
The make me! 2023 final

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The final gala of the international design competition for young designers.

Workshops
Using Lego Serious Play to Explore the Use of Design

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

We all need more creativity in our lives ? to help us do our jobs better, find new approaches to problems, or to express our thoughts, feelings and opinions.

Workshops
Portfolio Review Workshop

online

These one-to-one online 20 minute review sessions are open to university students to early year professionals and practitioners.

Event
must have 2023 plebiscite gala

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

During the May gala, the Council of Experts will present statuettes to the winners of the must have quality mark for the best Polish implementations of recent months.

Exhibition
make me! 2023 ? Innovation Lab

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The final projects of young designers at the exhibition accompanying the make me! 2023 contest.

Exhibition
must have 2023 Exhibition

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Products awarded the must have 2023 quality mark at the exhibition accompanying the plebiscite.

Exhibition
Futuropolis

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The problems that the cities have had to face, the scale of their impact on the inhabitants or the forms of urbanisation have changed over time. However, attempts to create a blueprint for the ideal model were made in almost all eras.

Exhibition
Collections

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

In our daily lives, we are surrounded by countless and varied objects. We constantly produce them, acquire them, consume them.

Exhibition
It’s only a game

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Is Instagram a trap, parallel world or just a tool? The cycle of illustrations ?It?s only a game? is the result of few months observation by Kinga Offert and a growing fascination of photographs which may be viewed on the Internet.

Exhibition
Good Innovations

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Selected social innovations which address some of the identified needs of older adults and persons with disabilities. The innovations were designed and tested by social innovators who are beneficiaries of the Dobre Innowacje / Good Innovations programme.

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Identity!

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Identity! A buzz word, a concept that might seem too wide and blur-edged to even grasp. But why does this ancient notion resonate so strongly in today’s society? How is it important, to whom, and what aspects are there to it?

Exhibition
The Art of City

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The Art of City

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Design ? a barometr of social change

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

A selection of final diplomas from the Faculty of Interior Design, Design and Stage Design of Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, which best illustrate the keynote contained in the exhibition title.

Exhibition
Process

PURO Hotel Łódź

An exhibition of several vases of the same form made in various ceramic techniques. From electric kiln firing to living fire firing techniques.

Exhibition
25 years of WSSiP (diplomas)

Academy of Film, Art and Design

Since the 1998, the Academy has been educating artists in 4 faculties for a quarter of a century: Architecture, Interior Design, Design, and Film Art. As part of this exhibition, selected diploma works of graduates from two faculties: Architecture and Design will be presented.

Exhibition
More Less

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The architectural exhibition that focuses on human interconnections , communication and sensibility. Beauty, happiness but also our mistakes becomes our point of view for discussion about basic questions for architecture today.

Exhibition
A design lesson (collection) of the Muzuem Śląskie in Katowice

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

In order to promote the achievements of contemporary designers, especially Polish ones, and thus prepare for their popularisation and for the education of the broad public in the area of history of design, in 2020 the curators of the Art Department of the Silesian Museum in Katowice…

Exhibition
Imagined Places

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The exhibition aims to show the perception of the artistic potential and unique character of interactive stories such as video games through the prism of a digital traveler discovering virtual worlds and documenting events and places accompanying the journey.

Exhibition
UAP Collective | Amusements

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The exhibition explores the theme of finding oneself in a relationship with another person through a moment of mindfulness, with all the engaged in the experience of a specific atmosphere that consists of seemingly trifling things.

Exhibition
ROTA ET SPECULUM

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Istotnym elementem budującym instalację jest światło. To dzięki niemu precyzyjnie wskazujemy odbiorcy elementy, na które chcemy by zwrócił uwagę, ceramikę Koło Nova Pro, które teraz nazywa się Geberit Selnova.

Exhibition
MI/GRACJE

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Humans have been migrating since the beginning of time, searching for food, shelter, or suitable living conditions. Migration is written in our DNA. In times of climate crisis and armed conflicts, it gains a new meaning.

Exhibition
How Open is Design?

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The Internet, digital tools, and new methods of production overturned many existing orders related to mass production, intellectual property rights, the relationship between original and copy, or producers and consumers.

Exhibition
Human Plus

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The installation includes “The Third Thumb” Project. “The Third Thumb” is a fully functional, hand-worn extra thumb, 3D printed with flexible materials.

Exhibition
Re-Hemptation. Reinventing Hemp for a Sustainable Future.

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

A groundbreaking exhibition revealing the potential of hemp, flax, and other fibrous plants as eco-friendly alternatives to traditional materials. The exhibition presents The True Green and Husarska Design technologies.

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EMOTIONAL ECOLOGY / EKOLOGIA EMOCJONALNA

Academic Design Center

The relationship between organisms and their habitats is an area of interest for creators. They draw the impulse from their own and other organisms’ emotions.

Exhibition
Project ? Magazine ? Powidoki / Afterimages

Academic Design Center

The exhibition of graphic designs for the artistic and scientific magazine “Powidoki” is a summary of several years of artistic and design adventure of the author of the graphic concept of the magazine, designer, academic teacher at the Institute of Graphic Design ? Przemysław Hajek, DA.

Exhibition
C_IRCLES

Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź

O_KRĘGI (Circles) ? a participatory project, under which almost 120 embroidered selfportraits of women ? participants of workshops – were created, which took place in 9 cities in Poland: Warsaw, Milanówek, Łódź, Kraków, Olsztyn, Koluszki, Kielce, Wrocław and Białystok.


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URBAN LEGENDS ? THE DICTIONARY OF “LODZIANISMS”.

Re:Medium Gallery

An artistic and educational project with which we would like to draw attention to the unique character of our city ? Lodz. In the exhibition venue of Re:Medium Gallery, we want to show a dozen or so works referring to the legends associated with the city of textile workers.

Event
Opening of Łódź Design Festival 2024

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Official opening of the 18th edition of Łódź Design Festival.


Event
The make me! 2024 final

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The final gala of the 17th edition of the international make me! competition.

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Event
must have 2024 plebiscite gala

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

During the May gala, the Board of Experts will present statuettes to the winners of the must have quality mark for the best Polish implementations.

Event
Musical return to comfort zone ? chill & party by Kubota

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

TAKE OFF YOUR SLIPPERS, PUT ON YOUR FLIP-FLOPS! We invite you to the one and only event of the 18th edition of Łódź Design Festival

Exhibition
make me! 2024 ? Innovation Lab

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

make me! 2024 exhibition

Exhibition
must have 2024 exhibition

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

must have 2024 exhibition

Exhibition
Till the trunks keep growing

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Exhibition presenting the beneficial effects of nature and why it is so important in cities.

Exhibition
Zieta Illustrated

FUZJA

The exhibition concept includes a series of limited graphics that present Oskar Zięta’s iconic objects through the eyes of respected Polish illustrators.

Exhibition
MONO_WORLD

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Why did the plastic garden chair become the theme of the 18th edition of the design festival in Łódź and what does it have to do with comfort?

Exhibition
What?s cooking in Łódź? Dictionary of Łódź-specific slang

Re:Medium Gallery

Another edition of the artistic and educational project. This time we decided to look for traces of multicultural Łódź in… the kitchen.

Exhibition
On The Tables

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

A simple table can express the deep cultural, social, and ecological transformations of our world. As visitors traverse this exhibition, they will discover not just a diversity of tables and settings, but understand how these everyday.

Exhibition
UN_PEACE

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Technological development and armed conflict seem to be intertwined. The process of improving offensive weapons is accompanied by a constant race in the development of defensive means.

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NeuroDiver ? Comfort Space LAB. Educational and experimental space

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The exhibiton leads from the experience of difficulties to integration, engaging viewers in discussions and design activities. The project assumes an inclusive approach to the design of public spaces, taking into account the needs of neuroatypical people.

Exhibition
OFFline from time to time

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

A series of graphics that is a visual record of the collision of the virtual and real worlds. The illustrated scenes are moments thanks to which the interlocutors regain their inner balance and energy.

Exhibition
Nostalgic Glaze

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

A personal collection of memories on ceramic plates. Commemorative plates are not only unique and luxurious souvenirs, but also a component of cultural identity.

Exhibition
Golden Cubes Awards ? post-competition exhibition How to use architecture?

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

A presentation of educational projects of the international Award Golden Cubes Awards. Shows that architecture is an educational tool that you can learn, have fun and discover the world.

Exhibition
whiteMAD

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

whiteMAD, together with Polish brands, tried to illustrate the infinity of COLOR possibilitie

Exhibition
TYPE TEXT | LDZ

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The theme of the TYPE TEXT LDZ project is the city of Lodz, in the context of the artistic traditions and immaterial heritage of the city ? typography.

Exhibition
Wicker streamer

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Wicker, which builds the Wicker Streamer, is a natural wealth of the Vistula River basin and refers to the basketry tradition of this region. However, due to its unique scale, the installation goes beyond the framework of traditional craftsmanship and traditional utilitarian functions.

Exhibition
What does the creative industry think about artificial intelligence?

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Wystawa prezentuje kompleksowe badanie podejścia branży kreatywnej do tej nieuniknionej zmiany.

Exhibition
MEETINGS ? 10 years of Pawlak&Stawarski Studio

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

An original exhibition presenting products that have been created in the studio since 2014. Invites you to take a walk among projects that are close to the authors and to which they devoted time, energy and emotions.

Exhibition
Touching the City

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Textile typhlographics dedicated to the theme of Kielce metalwork. The exhibition focuses on the downtown gates, depicted through machine embroideries and haptic graphics made from flock foil.

Exhibition
R3DEFINE

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The exhibition, created by Student Scientific Club CAD from Lodz University of Technology, aims to show the valuable use of photogrammetric scanning and 3D printing, on example of details from the Cinematography Museum, located in the Scheibler Palace in Lodz.

Exhibition
Comfort of creating

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The exhibition presents contemporary works of students of the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Nałęczów. The works presented at the exhibition were created with a deep appreciation and reverence for the organic materials of wicker and wood.

Exhibition
Design in Public Space URBAN FARMING

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Urban farming has flourished on a large scale in recent years. At the exhibition you can see projects and activities that are already creating a vision of a better future.

Exhibition
Furniture ? life after life

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The exhibition presents furniture prototypes designed and made by second-year students of Interior Design at the Academy of Fine Arts. E. Geppert in Wrocław. The main intention is to draw attention to the growing number of discarded old furniture in the human environment.

Exhibition
IMAGINE Łódź?

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Works of students of the Design Faculty in the Academy of Art in Szczecin. The students dealt with the topic of climate catastrophe and addressed the attendant personal anxieties, experiences and concerns.

Exhibition
Fashion Forever

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

A broad overview of the emerging fashion industry in Sweden as well as presenting specific initiatives from politics, academia and industry.

Exhibition
design X hobby

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The exhibition concept indirectly responds to the often-contradictory aesthetic value and meaning of the creations of enthusiastic amateurs, influenced by hobby shows in mainstream media.

Exhibition
Sculpture ? Beata Szczepaniak

PURO Hotel Łódź

Sculptures by Beata Szczepaniak created between 2020 and 2024. Works from three cycles are displayed ? Attachment, Playground, and Daydreaming. Despite subtle formal differences, all three cycles are characterized by the organic nature of forms and the ambiguity of interpretation.

Exhibition
The Phenomenon of The Polish Kilim

Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź

An exhibition of Polish kilims from the collection of the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź and the private collection of Professor Piotr Korduba. The narrative of the exhibition will focus on the phenomenon of the Polish kilim, which is a material manifestation of traditional.

Exhibition
Hilarium: on the search for comfort

inLodz21 Instytucja Kultury

An exhibition about the complex design activity of adapting the space of the Hilary Majewski Tenement House for architectural education.

Exhibition
Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Academic Design Center

Exhibition of works completed by students from the Graphic Identification Studio I° under the supervision of dr. Przemysław Hajek.

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Lodz carpet. Art ? Craft ? Industry.

Academic Design Center

An attempt to answer the question whether an everyday object can be personal by giving it a new character and additional functions, while leaving its recognizable values.

Exhibition
Space of water

Academic Design Center

Being in confined and overcrowded places, we seek spaces of respite, free breathing, air. A social desire to be in a place without restrictions or on the verge of events is born. Water remembers us and probably no one like it.

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Story Space ? Read Me Yourself!

The Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź

The exhibition presents 8 environmental stories, as well and selected physical and auditory elements accompanying the narrative. The aim is to demonstrate the process of shaping stories based on space and its narrative structure

Exhibition
Steam Rift ? Steam Processor

Academic Design Center

A story about subsequent expeditions to an alternative vision of Łódź and the underground complex of Steam Rifts, hidden from the world.

Workshops
Designing your own Future using Lego Serious Play

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

workshop will introduce you to the world of ?LEGO Serious Play?. It will be fun, but ?hard fun?. It will help you think differently about things, and even to make some decisions about your life.

Workshops
Cross Pollinator Project: Portfolio Review Workshop


These one-to-one online review sessions are open to university students to early year professionals and practitioners.

Workshops
RESET urban activity on diversity and inclusivity in public space using the design thinking method

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The workshop focuses on engaging various communities in creating/re-designing inclusive spaces of COMFORT in the urban environment.

Workshops
Gender Bias in Design & Innovation: press “RESET”

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Based on the co-design principles of the New European Bauhaus, the workshop will comprise of an introduction to gender bias in product and service design.

Event
White on White

shlagart

In a reality filled with colors that stimulate us every day, white is a respite, comfort for the senses, a refreshment from the multicolored, exciting world.

Exhibition
Polish Job 2.0


Polish Job 2.0 – Polish design exhibition at Dutch Design Week / 19-27.10.2024

nie_koniec / un_end

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

nie_koniec / un_end defines the character of ŁDFF2025, emphasizing constant inquisitiveness and curiosity in design.

Event
Opening of Łódź Design Festival 2025

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Official opening of the 19th edition of Łódź Design Festival.

Event
The make me! 2025 final

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The final gala of the 18th edition of the international make me! competition.

Event
must have 2025 plebiscite gala

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

During the May gala, the Board of Experts will present statuettes to the winners of the must have quality mark for the best Polish implementations.

Exhibition
EverCity – city for eternity

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

What should a city that supports a long, healthy, and fulfilling life look like?

Exhibition
make me! 2025 ? Innovation Lab

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Exhibition of the finalists of the make me! 2025.

Exhibition
must have 2025 exhibition

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

The exhibition accompanying the must have 2025 plebiscite.

Exhibition
Beyond the Senses: Exploring Perception

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Does perception have its limits, or does it change with the involvement of the body?

Exhibition
EkoEksperymentarium

FUZJA

The experiential exhibition takes environmental education of children as its goal, inspiring them to take care of themselves and the Planet.

Event
“Design for the Real World” ? Victor Papanek’s legacy half a century later

Secesja.Archihub Library

After more than 50 years, can Papanek’s work still serve as a guide and do designers even follow his advice?

Exhibition
House for Culture

Ośrodek Propagandy Sztuki

The exhibition shows the formal similarities between the buildings of kibbutzim and kolkhozes, hundreds of kilometers apart.

Installation
“Nitka” ? art installation

Festival Center (Art_Inkubator)

Wandering through the post-industrial area of the Art_Inkubator and heading towards the Fuzjacomplex, you can see our art installation “Nitka”.

Installation
?Relax? bench in Lodz

Łódź Fabryczna Railway Station

Not just for sitting. A modern ceramic bench at the Łódź Fabryczna train station.

Installation
?State of mind? ? for the love of art, the city and design.

Zachodnia 93

Bartek Bojarczuk’s unique ceramic installation is changing the urban space in Lodz.

Installation
Floating Island

Lodz Special Economic Zone

Explore the city’s greenery theme and see floating wetlands drifting on the water.