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The knowledge company Designboost is hosting a series of activities at the Hem & Villa fair in Malmö, Sweden 6–9 March. Hem and Villa is the biggest public home fair in Sweden.

The different activities by Designboost is based on "sustainable design" and takes place as an "design orienteering" with a number of stops where the visitors will get different kind of knowledge based experiences.

Presentation about the different acitivities ::

:: Designboost presents "the sustainable children's house" with Alcro, Artek, Apple/Kullander as partners. In the house the children will be able to play with a large amount of the classic toys from Brio. Artek has supplied furniture in white which the children will be able to paint out of their own imaginations. The chairs will then be sold on auction every day and the money will go to SOS children´s villages. On top of this the children will be able to explore Apples computers and also make their own movies.

:: Designboost presents "the interactive wall", a competition where the visitors are invited to bring pictures from the own home showing smart solutions an/or nice interiors. A couple of winners will be presented every day.

:: Designboost presents a full program of lectures and interviews at the "at home with Designboost" scene. Among the speakers are Thomas Sandell, Jan Boris-Möller, Maria Midby Arén/Alcro, Eero Koivisto, Mats Theselius, Katarina Graffman and Stefan Nilsson.

:: a full program at the "Kullander" scene including iLife presentation by Apple/Kullander, Björn Jeffery, Elisabeth Lejon and Homelab.

:: Designboost presents Swedish artist Jacques Werup in a minimalistic "poetry concert" called Stardust.

:: Designboost presents workshops by Apple/Kullander, Homelab, Sparbanken Fastighetsbyrå, Selfmade plus more.

:: Designboost will visualize the seven parts of the Sustainable Wheel in seven different mini environments in collaboration with Alcro. The environments will contain products, descriptions and filmed interviews. The represented companies are Apple, Biomega, Brio, Electrolux, Iittala, Noir Illuminati and Tom Dixon.

:: Designboost will present two different conceptualizations of sustainable design; "2nd cycle" by Artek and "against throwawaism" by Iittala.

:: Designboost will use an Audi A3 sportback e-power car as an example of a holistic view on "sustainable design".

:: Designboost will present City of Malmö as one of the worlds most sustainable cities. Among other things the large model of Hyllie area will be showed for the first time.

:: The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation presents their new book "Green design".

:: Designboost is visualizing the thinking behind the Sustainable Wheel with products by Satyendra Pakhale and Stephen Burks among others.

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The Golden Compass Comes to the Reggia di Venaria

The exhibit featuring the Historic Collection and the Awards Ceremony, in Piemonte for the first time in the Award’s 54-year history.

The Golden Compass, one of Europe’s most prestigious recognitions in the field of design, will be one of the main events of the year honoring Torino as world design capital. The exhibit featuring the Historic Collection and the Awards Ceremony, for the first time in the Award’s 54-year history, will temporarily move from Milan to Piemonte, to the Reggia della Venaria Reale.

The exhibit will be inaugurated at the end of April and will remain open until the end of July, while the awards ceremony will be held at the end of June. The exact dates for both these events will be officially announced on March 5th in Milan during the presentation of the ADI Design Index.

Over four hundred items will be on exhibit in the Stables of the Reggia di Venaria Reale, which will open their doors to the public for the first time, as they host what is sure to be one of the most beautiful exhibits of the year. Even the prestigious Restoration Center of the Reggia has decided to take advantage of this important opportunity and will initiate a series of activities dedicated to design.

As spring approaches, besides the Golden Compass, three other major exhibits that are part of the Torino 2008 World Design Capital calendar will be inaugurated: on May 8th the Promotrice delle Belle Arti will inaugurate “Olivetti. Una bella società;” on May 24th, it will be the turn of “Geodesign” at the Palafuksas; and on June 28th, “Flexibility” will open at the former prison Le Nuove in Torino.

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