About
Kyiv Design Week
31.08—19.09.2023
Kyiv: City of Changes
Kyiv has been at the crossroads of paths and cultures for centuries, remaining the Freedom Square for many generations. Legendary Kyiv continues to inspire us, to dream, create, and change.
Inspired by the city we love and the transitional times we live in, the Design4Ukraine Association presents the Kyiv Design Week event with the topical theme "Kyiv: City of Changes" as part of Zurich Design Weeks 2023.
The events take place simultaneously in various locations in Zurich and Kyiv and represent graphic, product, industrial and collectible design, cyber fashion, and arts & crafts.
The program of the first KDW event includes exhibitions, discussions, presentations, lectures, documentary screenings, performances, light shows, and more.
Organizer: Design4Ukraine with support of Zürich Design Weeks.
Kyiv Design Week is a part of the project ReACT4UA sponsored by the German Government.
USAID’s Competitive Economy Program (CEP) is one of the partners of Kyiv Design Week.
Program
Events in Zürich
31.08—19.09
Design Zentrale × Zurich Design Weeks
Location:
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich
Open every day from 10:00 till 17:00
Participants Kyiv Design Week:
MacPaw
Projector Institute
Crossing Kyiv (publisher
NO MAD Paper)
Format:
interactive exhibition, discussion and presentations
13.09
CROSSING KYIV TALKS
Location:
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich
14:00
Crossing Kyiv
Moderator Dominique Signoroni Kuroyanagiі, founder and chief editor of NO MAD Paper
15:00
Font Fixel від MacPaw: community’s favorite, inspired by the cat.
Alyona Korolyova, creative director of MacPaw
15:45
Creativity under the flame: design and transformation of the project. Case of ClearVPN.
Anastasia Budik, MacPaw product designer
12.09
Walking through Kyiv
Architechture of brutalism from Save Kyiv Modernism + Aspichi.
Documentary films show «The Color of the facade: blue» and «Whisper of steps». VR-excursion through architect and historic sights of brutalism in Kyiv.
Location:
Kulturhaus HELFEREI (Kirchgasse 13, 8001 Zürich)
Opening at 18:00, start of the film show at 19:00
Organizer:
Design4Ukraine with support of Kulturhaus HELFEREI
12—19.09
Exhibition Crossroads of Time
Location:
Thomas Kurer Galerie (Giesshübelstrasse 62B, 8045 Zürich)
At the exhibition you can find: traditional crafts and digital products, art, industrial and collection design, color palette, conceptual fashion, and graphic design
Exhibition works:
Weekdays from 14:00 till 19:00
Weekend from 12:00 till 19:00
Opening event:
13.09, 19:00—21:00
Presentations and apero
Participants of Crossroads of Time:
UFEG (Ukrainian Fashion Education Group) — Digital fashion collections — Roots of the future
ZAVOD Ukrainian watch company — History of watches RIDER1991, REAL TIME
Diana Bilichenko — Bio Art series - Kyiv. Rhizome. Decorative mace out of the wheat roots /Curator Sana Moro/
Curator: Anastasiia Biletska
Organizer:
Design4Ukraine with the support of Thomas Kurer Galerie
Format:
interactive exhibition, presentations
Partner of the event:
USAID
19.09
19:00—21:00
Side event and DJ set from Yova Yager
Parallel event Zurich Design Weeks + Kyiv Design Week
Location:
MY BENI, Grubenstrasse 38, 8045 Zürich
Event in Kyiv:
14—15.09
KDW 2023 - Kyiv: City of Changes
Location:
MacPaw Space, Velyka Vasylkivska St. 100
14.09
1st day
Success stories of modern Ukrainian creative businesses.
Critical points on the way to implementing a dream into reality
10 : 30 — Welcome coffee
11 : 00 — Official opening / Welcome speech from organizers and partners
11 : 30 — Live broadcast from Zurich / Dominique Signoroni Kuroyanagi, founder and editor of NO MAD PAPER, and Michel Hueter, board member of Zurich Design Weeks
12 : 00 — Ukrainian Identity / Ministry of Design
12 : 30 — Fixel Font / KyryloTkachov, founder and art director of font studio AlfaBravo
13 : 00 — Projector / Olexander Tregub, CEO at Projector
13 : 30 — Dinner
14 : 30 — Zavod / Olga Kuchmeeva, owner of Zavodshop
15 : 00 — UFEG + Solomia / Maryna Loseva, owner and founder of UFEG15 : 30 — Kabluka Light & Digital Sculptures (KLDS) / Mykola Kabluka, founder, design and art director at KLDS
16 : 00 — Coffee break
16 : 30 — Superhumans / Yulia Dvorakovska, CEO at CBM Forum
17 : 00 — Aspichi + SaveKyivModernism / Olga Terefeeva, co-founder of SaveKyivModernism, Victor Samoylenko, CEO at Aspichi
17 : 30 — Division of development and innovations of armaments of the National Academy of Ground Forces / Vitaliy Kyryliv, co-founder of Hochu Rayu. design bureau
18 : 00 — Design of Changes / Jaroslaw Belinski, co-founder and head at Design4Ukraine
18 : 30 — Networking
15.09
2d day
Design of Changes for the Creative Economy.
Co-creation of the future ecosystem of Ukrainian creative industries
Location: MacPaw Space, Velyka Vasylkivska St., 100
10 : 30 — Welcome coffee
11 : 00 — Introduction to the modeling with the help of Design of Changes: method and algorithm of the process
11 : 20 — Uniting into groups due to requests
11 : 30 — Modelling game
13 : 00 — Dinner
14 : 00 — Presentation and feedback of each group
15 : 30 — Report on the whole event from the Design of Changes team
16 : 00 — Coffee break and networking
Organizers: Design4Ukraine + Design of Changes + MacPaw
Partner of the event: USAID
19 : 00
Charitable acoustic concert to thank the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Kyiv Design Week in Zurich and Kyiv
Location: Vozianov Studio (Ivana Franka St., 17В (enter from Lysenka St.)
Partner of the event: Swiss Embassy in Ukraine
19.09
17:00
CROSSING KYIV TALK
Presentation of the Crossing Kyiv Paper (publisher
NO MAD Paper)
Location: The Naked Room, Reiterska St., 21
Partner of the event: Swiss Embassy in Ukraine
