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How could we encourage designers to incorporate circular design methods more into their work? 4 questions to GROW

We asked four circular design related questions from Kinge Gardien and Andreas Linnell who will be guiding the Circular Economy Masterclass in the end of September.

Speed up the transition with Circular Design

On 29 March 2021, Design Forum Finland, Estonian Design Centre and the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID) organized the webinar “Speed up transition with circular design”.

First peer-learning workshop of the project ‘Design Impact Observatory’ (DesImO)

The 1st peer-learning workshop of the project ‘Design Impact Observatory’ (DesImO) was held online on May 11th and 12th 2021.

New Project: Design and Creativity Development Toolkit

The official start of joint project “Design and Creativity Development Toolkit” will be carried out within the framework of a strategic partnership of three EU countries - Latvia, Estonia and Denmark.

The DesImO project

Estonian Design Centre, Business and Cultural Development Centre – KEPA (Greece), Design Society Fond (Denmark) and PDR’s Design & Innovation Policy Team (Wales) came together to exchange good practices and collaboratively propose solutions through a Horizon 2020 funded project – Design Impact Observatory (DesImO).

Design Market

Once a year in December, we organise the largest design market in the region, presenting and selling well-curated selection of the most exciting works of designers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania etc.

Design map

The Tallinn Design Map leads you to the best Estonian design – whether in cafes and restaurants decorated with Estonian design, museums exhibiting design, or galleries and design shops.

Estonian Design Awards

The Estonian Design Awards recognise the best and the most noteworthy designers in the fields of product design, graphic design, web design and service design.

Design Bulldozer (finished)

The Design Bulldozer was a development programme for businesses. Running the programme with an experienced design manager helped companies to take advantage of design in the best possible way.

Design Driver(finished)

The Design Engine is a design audit programme whose aim is to define the company’s ability and need to use design.

Library

The Estonian Design Centre has published several books on design, which you can order here. The Design Centre also lends out nearly 300 books on design.

The website of the Estonian Design Centre received support from the creative industries programme for the development of support structures, joint projects and export capacity. The project “Creating added value with design” received 300,000 euros of support from Enterprise Estonia through the European Regional Development Fund. The project lasted from May 2015 to May 2017 and its aim was to increase the use of design among Estonian enterprises as well as boost the export volume and added value of design agencies. The project was used to carry out several activities, such as the Design Bulldozer programme, seminars, training sessions and study trips to match the needs of entrepreneurs and design agencies so as to meet the goals of the project.