As discussed in context of Berlin Design Week 2024, not only is the (hi)story of design weeks in the German capital looooong, complex and entertaining, if at times very painful so, but so is our relationship with design weeks in the German capital. We refer you therefore to our post from Berlin Design Week 2024 for more detail, or at least the degree of detail we're prepared to publicly expose at this stage in our lives, and dive here straight into Berlin Design Week 2025.
An event that is now organised by a triumvirate of state of DESIGN, an institution long associated with Berlin Design Weeks in their various manifestations, along with on time PR and the interiors/architecture/design magazine H.O.M.E., a constellation that poses a lot of questions. Questions we haven't actually posed yet, but may well do before all to long.
And an event that in addition to a central showcase, this year technically two central showcases: Amtsalon on the Kantstrasse in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Kalle on the Karl-Marx-Strasse in Neukölln, thus locations in two Berlin Kieze that are highly instructive in context of contemporary Berlin, two Kieze that in a contrast and comparison analysis are excellent locations to begin to better approach contemporary Berlin, and also a number of satellite events throughout the city.
Satellites that in making Berlin Design Week an inherently decentral event enable, empower, one to explore the city as much as the presented projects: and satellites that for all they are often of a corporate heavy nature and thus not to our liking, brands presenting themselves in their flagships, which ain't a criticism, rather an observation, are also very much the sort of thing that, as oft discussed in these dispatches, could, ¿should? serve as the basis for the novel form of furniture trade fair we desperately need to replace the outdated, and dangerous, large trade fair as embodied by Milan (and until this year IMM Cologne); but a programme of satellites that also feature less commercial presentations, including, for example, students from the Universität der Künste, UdK, Berlin and the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst, HAWK, Hildesheim.
In the coming days and weeks we will bring you some of our thoughts and reflections on some of those works and projects and positions experienced, and some of our thoughts and reflections on Berlin Design Week 2025 as an event.
And for all in or near Berlin more information on Berlin Design Week 2025 can be found at https://berlindesignweek.com
Focus by the Industrial Design Studio, Tomas Bata University, Zlín
