Social Design Days Nurem­berg 2023

• Social Design Days will take place in Nurem­berg for the first time from Octo­ber 11 to 13, 2023
• Want­ed: inter­est­ing chal­lenges regard­ing Ade­quate Work for All to be mapped out dur­ing the Social Design Jam; entries accept­ed until July 31, 2023

Nurem­berg, Ger­many — Social design is the prac­tice of cre­at­ing with the pur­pose of address­ing soci­etal chal­lenges. It is about deliv­er­ing solu­tions that ben­e­fit soci­ety as a whole and fos­ter social par­tic­i­pa­tion. Sup­port­ed by the Nurem­berg Cham­ber of Com­merce and Indus­try for Cen­tral Fran­co­nia, bay­ern design will host Nurem­berg Social Design Days for the first time from Octo­ber 11 to 13, 2023. Based on the Unit­ed Nations Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals, the focal theme of this first edi­tion of 2023 will be Ade­quate Work for All, a top­ic that is impor­tant to employ­ers and employ­ees alike. The CI of Nurem­berg Social Design Days was devel­oped by the Nurem­berg-based agency DKDL.

Inter­est­ed mem­bers of the pub­lic can sub­mit chal­lenges relat­ing to the focal theme by July 31, 2023 with a form avail­able on bay­ern design’s web­site. Entries will be screened and eval­u­at­ed by bay­ern design and two will be matched with design­ers active in the Nurem­berg Met­ro­pol­i­tan Region and will be mapped out at no charge by inter­dis­ci­pli­nary teams and pre­sent­ed to the pub­lic dur­ing Nurem­berg Social Design Days.

At a pre-event, the bay­ern design project team intro­duced four poten­tial chal­lenges in coop­er­a­tion with HSM Stahl (Geor­gens­g­münd, Ger­many), bfz (Nurem­berg), UCS (Nurem­berg) and the Nurem­berg Cham­ber of Com­merce and Indus­try, and togeth­er with vis­i­tors imple­ment­ed exem­plary solutions.

The group and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of mid-mar­ket com­pa­ny HSM Stahl dis­cussed the chal­lenge of how to devel­op an inclu­sive cor­po­rate cul­ture in a rur­al con­text. Staff mem­bers from the voca­tion­al train­ing cen­ter bfz talked about pro­vid­ing access to infor­ma­tion to groups of per­sons who so far have been unreach­able so every­one can be afford­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ty to devel­op his or her poten­tial in the labor mar­ket to the largest extent pos­si­ble. Anoth­er group spoke with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the UCS agency about the trans­for­ma­tion of work by AI and the chal­lenge of find­ing pro­duc­tive approach­es to inte­grate AI and dis­pel fear. The assign­ment pre­sent­ed by the Nurem­berg Cham­ber of Com­merce and Indus­try was about the chal­lenge pre­sent­ed by the skills short­age and ways to address it in a sus­tain­able manner.

Thanks to metic­u­lous mod­er­a­tion by San­dra Engel­hardt (Urban Lab), par­tic­i­pants pro­duced ini­tial trans­dis­ci­pli­nary solu­tions after only 20 minutes.

Employ­ers fac­ing sim­i­lar chal­lenges now have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to sub­mit their ques­tions con­cern­ing Ade­quate Work for All to the Social Design Jam that will take place on Octo­ber 11 and 12 as part of Nurem­berg Social Design Days. Appli­cants will be informed in ear­ly August whether their chal­lenges have been select­ed to be mapped out. Inno­v­a­tive design solu­tions to con­crete chal­lenges con­cern­ing Ade­quate Work for All will be devel­oped free of charge at the Social Design Jam. Appli­cants will be sup­port­ed and assist­ed by expe­ri­enced designers.

Sprints, inter­im pre­sen­ta­tions, and dis­cus­sions with experts will ensure a clear struc­ture for the Social Design Jam to be mod­er­at­ed by San­dra Engel­hardt and bay­ern design. The goal is to devel­op con­cep­tu­al as well as applic­a­ble design solu­tions and to deter­mine clear next steps in their imple­men­ta­tion for the per­sons sub­mit­ting the chal­lenges. The results of the Jam will be pre­sent­ed to the pub­lic at a sym­po­sium to be held on Octo­ber 13, 2023.

Pro­mot­ed and spon­sored by the Nurem­berg Cham­ber of Com­merce and Indus­try, Nurem­berg Social Design Days address rep­re­sen­ta­tives of per­son­nel devel­op­ment and strat­e­gy depart­ments at com­pa­nies across indus­tries as well as design­ers in all dis­ci­plines and the inter­est­ed public.

Fur­ther and con­tin­u­ous­ly updat­ed infor­ma­tion can be found at www.socialdesigndays.de.