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Press release 17.05.18<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Sustainable market for the whole family 26-27 May in the garden at Designmuseum Danmark <\/strong><\/p>\n

Take friends and family along when Designmuseum Danmark opens its sustainable market Design X Change for the second year in a row. This year, we\u2019ve increased the number of children\u2019s activities and live debates. Come and join us as popular entertainers like radio host Anders Morgenthaler and the crew from DR\u2019s Ramasjang help save the bees and the global climate. The weekend will offer lots of free activities for Copenhagen residents and tourists.<\/p>\n

Designmuseum Danmark\u2019s beautiful garden will be packed with exciting booths where designers, craftsmen, companies, and organisations will show how they work with sustainable products and solutions. Both children and adults can take part in do-it-yourself workshops \u2013 from home-made flowerboxes to fabric dying and the redesign of clothes.<\/p>\n

Museum director Anne-Louise Sommer says:<\/p>\n

\u201cDenmark is known for good design, which is something we show every day at Designmuseum Danmark. Sustainability can seem abstract for many people, so our goal with Design X Change is to create a meeting place where the city\u2019s residents and tourists are invited to participate in specific activities and get involved in many types of dialogue. That\u2019s why we really appreciate our co-operation with Copenhagen Municipality, which has helped put sustainability on the agenda along with strong stakeholders and co-operative partners.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Lots of activities for children and teenagers<\/strong><\/p>\n

There will be wide variety of activities for children and teenagers on offer again this year \u2013 from a \u201csort the rubbish\u201d relay race to competitions requiring creative and sustainable solutions. Copenhagen Municipality\u2019s young climate ambassadors will come and discuss how they actively work to promote a sustainability agenda. As a special treat this year, you can meet the team behind DR\u2019s Ramasjang. Along with the Danish Society for Nature Conservation, they will show how important it is to rescue the bees.<\/p>\n

Debates on the sustainability stage<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the activities will take place in the garden and be centred around a sustainability stage, designed and built by students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture\u2019s programme for Heritage, Transformation, and Restoration. This stage is not the usual use-and-toss-away stage. In line with the sustainability theme, it is built with the goal of being able to be reused for other events. That means that the wood frame can easily be taken apart and re-used, and that the covering consists of discarded tarpaulins. The students took inspiration from sources as diverse as Japan and old Danish timbered houses. In those days, buildings were also designed to be taken apart and re-assembled in another place.<\/p>\n

On this stage you can experience artists, writers, and the radio host Anders Morgenthaler, who is known from the program Climate Testimony on DR\u2019s P1. You can also meet the author and keynote speaker Signe Wenneberg, who will discuss with Iben Krog Rasmussen of the food thinktank Frej about how daily grocery shopping can support sustainability. Which production methods are the most sustainable? Should we stop eating meat in order to save the climate? Should a Danish bag lunch include an organic apple from Austria or a conventionally-produced apple from Denmark?<\/p>\n

Refreshments from the Designmuseum\u2019s Caf\u00e9 Klint will also be available. In co-operation with Copenhagen Food Co-operative, it will serve healthy food made of seasonal local ingredients at good prices.<\/p>\n

About Design X Change<\/strong><\/p>\n