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SOLAR DESIGN LAB SKÅNE

13-14 November 2024, Malmö
OPEN CALL

An invitation to creators, researchers, designers, and visionaries to shape the future with solar energy. Join a co-learning design lab to explore low-tech solutions and the power of the sun for sustainable innovation. Together in smaller teams you can receive up to 30,000 SEK for prototyping and a grant to present your and your teams solution at an international conference in Faro, Portugal in early 2025.

Event Details:
13-14 November 2024
@ STPLN, Malmö
(Malmöhusvägen 5, 211 18 Malmö)
Why Join?
  • Explore low-tech, sustainable design
  • Rethink how we create materials, energy systems, and communities
  • Reconnect with nature and support regenerative lifestyles
  • Design for a resilient, climate-neutral future
Design Challenge:
Solar Energy - Artistic Energy
Together we will explore how design can revolutionize how we interact with solar energy, still confronting the dark sides of renewable energy transitions—from electronic waste to lithium extraction and consumerism. The sun, as an energy source, has for ages inspired slow-tech ideas in less privileged societies. What can we learn from a critical deconstruction of contemporary energy solutions? How can looking into the pre-industrial European societies and beyond euro-centric societies help us integrate natural solar energy into future livestyles?
For Whom?
We seek a group of 15 designers, researcher, and innovators, as well as master students ready to challenge traditional paradigms and work towards sustainable design solutions.
Agenda Highlights:
Day 1: Co-learning workshops and group ideation.
Day 2: Conceptualisation and idea presentations.
Prizes:
The best proposals will receive funding for prototyping (up to 30,000 SEK shared between all proposals) and a mobility grant to present the project at the SUNPLUGGED conference in Faro, Portugal.
Application:
Last day to submit 31/10 2024. Apply on this link:
APPLY

Skåne Solar Design Lab supported by:

STPLN: a co-created creative meeting space and workspace for artists, creative freelancers, and the makers and shakers of the world, in Kommendanthuset, Malmö (venue & communication partner)

Cross-Innovation Southern Sweden/Region Skånes Kulturförvaltning: an initiative to enhance southern Sweden's innovation capacity for cross-sectoral innovation with an emphasis on cultural and creative industries (facilitation and co-funding)

Creative Europe & Swedish Arts Council (co-funding).


Organized by:

Transversal Project AB: a cultural strategy agency in Malmö, working across borders to develop culture-driven projects, with a portfolio including artistic residencies, a rooftop festival network, a non-electrical light art festival and a floating design market.

Contacts
Tiago Prata / tiago@transversal.eu / Ph: 0046 (0) 793-324194
Elin Frost / elin.frost@skane.se / Ph: 0046 (0) 707-781678
About SUNPLUGGED
SUNPLUGGED - Sustainable Solar Rituals is a transnational sunlight art festival.

It invites artists and citizens to re-interpret old and contemporary relationships between people(s) and the sun, and gives form to new sustainable solar rituals in which artistic practices re-imagine new ways to power ecologically-resilient lifestyles and regenerative transition of socio-ecological systems.

Intangible and tangible sun-related heritages across Faro (Portugal), Ystad (Sweden) and Bari (Italy) will be activated with talks, walks, creative workshops, arts exhibitions, design competitions and conferences, in order to expand the concept of light art, transitioning it from an energy-intensive nighttime experience to a nature-based, energy-efficient experience accessible in urban and rural landscapes.
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