DESIGNBAR: THINGS THAT LAST

When summer arrives on Bredgade, Designmuseum Denmark once again opens the museum garden for the year’s first DESIGNBAR – the museum’s recurring after-work bar, where design, conversation, and cold drinks come together under the open sky.

DESIGNBAR is an informal evening focusing on current themes, design, and social exchange in historic surroundings. Each edition takes its point of departure in a new topic, and this time the evening centres on Things That Last – from materials and craftsmanship to the objects and ideas we choose to carry forward.

With music from the evening’s DJ, special beers in your glass, and the museum garden as the setting, DESIGNBAR offers a relaxed start to the weekend in the heart of Danish design history. For the first DESIGNBAR of the year, the museum café FORMAT will also launch its new specially brewed beer, created exclusively for the museum and this summer’s events.

DESIGNBAR is created in collaboration with Design denmark.

Programme

17.00-17.30: Design Can Create Things That Last

Interviewer: Kristina May
Panelists:
Thomas Woltmann, Furniture designer and colorist
Lærke Ryom, Furniture designer and curator
Caroline Vang, Visual artist and 3D/CGI artist

17.30-18.30: Therapy Session: On Our Relationship with Things

Inspired by the exhibition Belongings: Affection as Design Strategy, this collective meditation session explores ideas rooted in new materialism, followed by open therapy sessions with the audience.

Host and therapist: Brian Frandsen

From 16.00-

DJ set by Martin Skovbjerg

Live-braiding of the J39 Chair. In collaboration with Fredericia Furniture and Blindes Arbejde (The Work of Blind People), guests can experience live chair-braiding of Børge Mogensen’s J39 Chair in the museum garden.