Social Design Days Nürn­berg 2024

2024 Social Design Days in Nurem­berg: bet­ter together!

The agen­da now is complete

• Social Design Days will take place in Nurem­berg for the sec­ond time from Octo­ber 7 to 9, 2024
• Every­one is invit­ed to join the var­i­ous for­mats such as work­shops, a Design Jam, a talk, and a sym­po­sium includ­ing an award ceremony
• All events will focus on this year’s theme, bet­ter together

Nurem­berg, Ger­many. Social Design Days in Nurem­berg orga­nized by bay­ern design will take place for the sec­ond time from Octo­ber 7 to 9, 2024, a fes­ti­val for new ideas con­cern­ing the man­age­ment of soci­etal chal­lenges through design. The goal is to iden­ti­fy solu­tions col­lec­tive­ly that ben­e­fit all of soci­ety and fos­ter social par­tic­i­pa­tion. Focus will be on inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dia­log among rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the cor­po­rate world, pol­i­tics, and design and on expe­ri­enc­ing design as a process. To fos­ter sol­i­dar­i­ty with­in soci­ety, the theme of this year’s Social Design Days will be bet­ter togeth­er. In a time of increas­ing inequal­i­ty and polar­iza­tion, it is impor­tant to close ranks again, devel­op an under­stand­ing, and tack­le acute chal­lenges togeth­er. The agen­da for 2024 Social Design Days is now online!

The theme of 2024 Social Design Days: bet­ter together

Soci­ety is at its strongest when as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble act in con­cert and stand up for a future worth liv­ing. In a time where extreme polit­i­cal move­ments are on the rise, social inequal­i­ties are increas­ing, and demo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues are being chal­lenged repeat­ed­ly, find­ing answers to the ques­tion of how we want to live togeth­er in the future is more urgent than ever. The grow­ing divi­sion of soci­ety not only weak­ens cohe­sion but also the trust in demo­c­ra­t­ic process­es. If peo­ple no longer come togeth­er at the same table, find­ing solu­tions that are good for every­one will become increas­ing­ly difficult.

Where free­dom of expres­sion, rule of law, and oth­er val­ues are called into ques­tion and pop­ulist camps exploit people’s inse­cu­ri­ties, action must be tak­en. Demo­c­ra­t­ic prin­ci­ples must be pro­tect­ed and, at the same time, social inequal­i­ty, eco­nom­ic uncer­tain­ty, and insuf­fi­cient polit­i­cal par­tic­i­pa­tion must be con­test­ed. Only through edu­ca­tion, equal eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties, and demo­c­ra­t­ic par­tic­i­pa­tion can a soci­ety be shaped in a way that it remains firm­ly unit­ed and builds a future in which every­one benefits.

Social Design Jam – address­ing con­crete chal­lenges and com­mit­ting to change

What are design jams? At these cross-dis­ci­pli­nary work­shops, all par­tic­i­pants can con­tribute their skills and con­sult with experts. Every­one shar­ing their expe­ri­ences and per­spec­tives allows us to learn from each oth­er, to find new answers, and thus to come a lot clos­er to solu­tions to major chal­lenges soci­ety is fac­ing. The great strength of design jams lies pre­cise­ly in work­ing togeth­er. By the way: Social Design Jam not only address­es design­ers and oth­er pro­fes­sion­als but every­one inter­est­ed in get­ting involved. Thus, Social Design Jam pro­vides ample oppor­tu­ni­ties to play an active role in shap­ing social cohe­sion. bay­ern design invit­ed every­one to sub­mit chal­lenges, that is, top­ics for the dis­cus­sion rounds, by July 31; two of the chal­lenges will be addressed col­lec­tive­ly at Social Jam Days.

The agen­da

Most of the events tak­ing place dur­ing 2024 Social Design Days from Octo­ber 7 to 9 will be free of charge. The agen­da is now avail­able online. Every­body can participate!

Octo­ber 7, 2024: 

Work­shop: Act Now!

• Poster work­shop for begin­ners and pro­fes­sion­als. Par­tic­i­pants can learn to trans­form ideas into mean­ing­ful head­lines and images and then imple­ment and design them. The experts will share their wealth of tips and tricks to enable all par­tic­i­pants to cre­ate their own inspir­ing posters.
• Con­duct­ed by Lars Harm­sen (Fach­hochschule Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences and Art) and Markus Lange (Tech­nis­che Hochschule Georg Simon Ohm, Nuremberg)
• 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the bay­ern design offices
• Reg­is­tra­tion required; fee: 19 to 29 euros

Jam (day 1)

• The goal of Design Jam will be to dis­cuss two soci­etal chal­lenges sub­mit­ted to bay­ern design in July: The Cen­tral Fran­con­ian chap­ter of Der Par­itätis­che Bay­ern raised the ques­tion of how we can bet­ter trans­form inner cities into zones for encoun­ters and cre­ate occa­sions and space for bring­ing peo­ple from diverse bub­bles togeth­er. The sec­ond entry was made by Lukas Heck, stu­dent at OTH Regens­burg: He asked how peace­ful exchange between cyclists and dri­vers can be achieved.
• Mod­er­at­ed by San­dra Engel­hardt and Lena Endres (both Urban Lab), and Sebas­t­ian Schnell­bögl (bay­ern design)
• 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Kün­stler­haus in Nuremberg
• Reg­is­tra­tion required, free entry

Octo­ber 8, 2024:

Work­shop: Yes Future!

• The no future mind­set is a thing of the past. Par­tic­i­pants will work togeth­er to devel­op inspir­ing sce­nar­ios for strong coex­is­tence in the future. To do so, they will con­vey and use meth­ods of spec­u­la­tive design, an approach to devel­op­ing hypo­thet­i­cal sce­nar­ios with the goal to bet­ter under­stand poten­tial future sit­u­a­tions. The meth­ods will be applied to this year’s theme, bet­ter togeth­er.
• Con­duct­ed by Jean­nie Schnei­der and Ramona Sprenger (both Dezentrum)
• 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the bay­ern design offices
• Reg­is­tra­tion required, fee: 19 to 39 euros (cater­ing included)

Jam (day 2)

• Con­tin­u­a­tion of Design Jam with the devel­op­ment of con­crete solutions
• Mod­er­at­ed by San­dra Engel­hardt and Lena Endres (both Urban Lab), and Sebas­t­ian Schnell­bögl (bay­ern design)
• 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Kün­stler­haus in Nuremberg

Design­ers’ Cir­cle: Social Design in Prac­tice (talk)

• Social design­er Felix Egle works for edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions, addic­tion assis­tance orga­ni­za­tions, and ini­tia­tives fight­ing right-wing extrem­ism. His moti­va­tion is the goal of tack­ling con­flict and cre­at­ing spaces for con­struc­tive nego­ti­a­tion process­es. In his lec­ture, Egle will out­line rooms for design­ers to maneu­ver in sociopo­lit­i­cal fields. The talk will take place in front of the for­mer Kaufhof build­ing in Nuremberg’s city cen­ter, a loca­tion that could not be more suit­able for this type of dis­cus­sion. The event is orga­nized by bay­ern design and DESIGN­VERE­IN and is sup­port­ed by Design Fac­ul­ty of Tech­nis­che Hochschule Georg Simon Ohm in Nurem­berg and the Office for Cul­tur­al Projects of the City of Nuremberg.
• 7:00 p.m. at Zukun­ftsmusik (by the for­mer Kaufhof build­ing on Pfannenschmiedgasse)

Octo­ber 9, 2024:

Sym­po­sium at Neues Muse­um in Nuremberg 

• Focus on this year’s mot­to, bet­ter together
• 12 speak­ers from the design, pol­i­tics, busi­ness, and soci­ol­o­gy sec­tors on two panels
• Keynote speak­ers: Armin Nasse­hi (soci­ol­o­gy pro­fes­sor at Lud­wig-Max­i­m­il­ians-Uni­ver­sität, Munich), Jörg Som­mer (Direk­tor of Berlin Insti­tut für Par­tizipa­tion), Felix Kosok (design sci­en­tist and graph­ic design­er), Simone Engel­hardt (futur­ol­o­gist, shape of new)
• Pan­elists from Nurem­berg: Simona Leyze­rovich (Café Blei­weiß), Addis Muluge­ta (Nurem­berg Cham­ber of Indus­try and Com­merce), and Nico­las Eich­holz (Anders Gründen)
• Pre­sen­ta­tion of the results of Social Design Jam to the pub­lic and

IHK Inno­va­tion­spreis Fachkräfte award ceremony

• Mod­er­at­ed by Dorothee Brom­mer (Brom­mer Consulting)
• 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Neues Muse­um in Nuremberg

Social Design Days involve the pub­lic, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of per­son­nel devel­op­ment and/or strat­e­gy depart­ments of com­pa­nies across sec­tors, and design­ers in all fields. The event is host­ed by bay­ern design and spon­sored by the Nurem­berg Cham­ber of Indus­try and Com­merce for Cen­tral Fran­co­nia and the Office for Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment of the City of Nurem­berg. Neues Muse­um in Nurem­berg is a part­ner and CURT city mag­a­zine is a media part­ner of the event.

Agen­da updates can be found at www.socialdesigndays.de