DMY Berlin 2010 @ Tempelhof

DMY International Design Festival (June 9.-13.) relocates its central venue to the City Airport Berlin Tempelhof.
 
More than 400 professional designers, brands and design schools will present new product launches and foresighted prototypes in the huge hangars of the history-charged city airport.
 
Related to the change of its central venue, DMY pursues a long-term strategy
to develop a new hybrid format twisting the concepts of traditional fairs:
"The aim is to create a contemporary, trade-orientated format responding
to increasing demands for different event and presentation formats that go
beyond traditional fairs," Joerg Suermann, founder and managing director of
DMY Berlin.
 
In this process, this year's festival will introduce a new segment, the Maker
Lab. Through numerous workshop stations, presentations and talks alike, the
Maker Lab will give insights to open design strategies enabling the visitors to g
et involved into the design process and explore new forms of knowledge-based
and technologically enhanced designs as well as open ways for production and
distribution.
 
DMY has rapidly grown into the largest festival for product design in Germany within the last three years. "The airport will enable us to introduce new segments and to create a new hybrid trade-format connecting design schools as innovative research centers with selected trade exhibitors."  
 
The central exhibition will be accompanied by numerous events such as workshops, open talks, designer lectures, symposia, the DMY Awards Ceremony, Pecha Kucha and Visual Performances.
 
As the first tradeshow for product design, the event will open up the airport Berlin
Tempelhof for trade visitors, design aficionados and the public.