TRANSCENDENCE exhibition at 3 Days of Design 2024 – Photo by ©Marielle Lindhansen.
Design—Dare to Dream is the main theme of 3 Days of Design 2024, the city-wide festival celebrating creativity in Copenhagen where dreamers, doers, and the design-curious converged. “Dreams are the gateway to our innermost thoughts,” explained the festival CEO, Signe Byrdal Terenziani. “A springboard for the imagination, free from limitations rooted in practicalities. It’s within this dreamscape that unconventional ideas and solutions are born.”
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Considered the second biggest event on the design agenda after Milan, 3 Days of Design 2024 features hundreds of events and participating companies from Denmark and beyond. Enrico Zilli, Archipanic’s Founder and Editor-in-Chief, selected ten unmissable exhibitions in the Danish capital on June 12-14.
Teenage Dreams
DAC-Danish Architecture Center, Bryghusgade 10, 1473, [Map].
Teenage Dreams exhibition at the DAC–Danish Architecture – Photo by DAC.
How do digitisation, sustainability, mental health, and social media affect and transform teens’ lives and personal spaces? With the new design exhibition Teenage Dreams, the DAC-Danish Architecture Center explores what teenage bedrooms will look like, from festival tents to biogenetic materials and selfie backdrops [Until January 5, 2025]. Visitors enter a world where dreams and reality merge through fascinating installations created by recognised design studios such as Our Shift, Natural Material Studio, and Krøyer-Sætter-Lassen.
Unwrapped by Ukurant
Frederiksholms Kanal 28A, [Map].
Courtesy of Ukurant.
How can young designers establish economically sustainable practices? In a world of expensive design events, the Unwrapped exhibition by the emerging design-focused platform Ukurant features the work of 19 young designers. “We believe that to genuinely support young designers, we must actively contribute to the economic aspect of their work.” Curated by Josefine Krabbe Munck, Kamma Rosa Schytte, Kasper Kyster and Lærke Ryom. Spatial Design by Studio Gestalt.
Fritz Hansen’s Islands of Wellbeing
Ekvipagemestervej 18, [Map].
Copenhagen’s Opera Park – Photo by Cobe Large.
Fritz Hansen presents Islands of Wellbeing, extraordinary exhibitions showcasing hospitality, workplace and outdoor design in modern architecture at Copenhagen’s most exciting new harbourside destinations: the Cobe-designed Operaparken, the neighbouring greenhouse Væksthuset, and the nearby Papirøen designed by Kengo Kuma.
Noma Projects
Refshalevej 213A, [Map].
Photo by Theis Bothmann, courtesy of NOMA Projects.
For the first time ever, worldwide acclaimed and three-Michelin star restaurant Noma joins 3 Days of Design with its Noma Projects, founded in 2022 to share Noma’s knowledge, innovations and flavours beyond the four walls of the Copenhagen restaurant. Throughout the three days of the event, you can visit the production space, where you’ll get to explore some of the materials, ingredients and flavours that have emerged from the noma test kitchen over the past two decades.
HAY x Asics
HAY House, Østergade 61, [Map].
ASICS x HAY – Photo via IG by HAY, follow @haydesign.
At the HAY House and flagship store in the heart of Copenhagen, Danish company HAY presents a collaboration with Asics, interpreting the iconic Skyhand OG footwear with a HAY colour palette. The new collection relaunches a “street-style accessory that, for many, completes the everyday outfit.” Explain at HAY.
Framing
Odd Fellow Palace, Bredgade 28, [Map].
Courtesy of Framing.
The Odd Fellow Palace hosts the FRAMING joint exhibition. All three floors of the impressive Rococo building offer indoor and outdoor space to 46 Nordic and international brands alike, including Arper, Brokis, Fermob, Moooi, Kettal, La Palma, Luceplan, Secto, Tarkett, and more. “There is no doubt that 3 Days of Design has become an event you don’t want to miss and an event that companies really invest in,” says the founder and owner of FRAMING, Samira Kudsk.
TRANSCENDENCE
Werkstatt 167, Refshalevej 167A, [Map].
TRANSCENDENCE exhibition – Photo by ©Marielle Lindhansen.
TRANSCENDENCE is a new exhibition concept that “delves into the diverse realm of materials and their endless possibilities,” curator Frederikke Aagaard from Together Architecture explains. The exhibition challenges our preconceived notions of materials while immersing us in a tactile experience of alluring textures, natural fibres, and sleek composite surfaces. Each display invites introspection, and an appreciation of the role materials play in shaping our surroundings and how we relate to objects and each other.
Danish Art Workshops—Selected Projects
Strandgade 27B, [Map].
Photo via IG by @christoffer_regild_photography, follow @statensvaerksteder.
Danish Art Workshops—Selected Projects is an exhibition platform in Denmark’s largest production residency. The Danish Art Workshops (SVFK) is an institution that provides working facilities for particularly demanding artworks. For 3 Days of Design, the old warehouse transforms into a showroom for projects developed in the workshops in recent years.
Louis Poulsen installation
Kuglegårdsvej 19-23, [Map].
Photo by ©Filippo Bamberghi.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the First House of Light, Louis Poulsen has asked groundbreaking artist duo Oliver Sundqvist and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen to interpret PH Artichoke, one of its greatest icons, on an excitingly large scale with a wooden installation in the Danish company’s garden.
Icelandic design
Icelandic Embassy in Denmark, Strandgade 89, [Map].
Freshly made wool pizza by Flétta and Ýrúrarí – Courtesy of the Embassy of Iceland in Denmark.
The Icelandic Embassy in Denmark, the Iceland Design and Architecture Center and Business Iceland present two different exhibitions showcasing the diversity of Icelandic design. In the foyer of the Embassy, Hae/Hi: Designing Friendship features Icelandic and Seattle-based design studios, addressing the acts that take place and the objects associated with arriving and departing, greetings and goodbyes. Hungry? Outside the embassy, please have yourself award-winning freshly made wool pizzas from Flétta and Ýrúrarí made from leftovers from the Icelandic wool industry.
Danish Art Workshops—Selected Projects exhibition – Photo via IG by @christoffer_regild_photography, follow @statensvaerksteder.
