The main venue of this year’s BDW was an attraction for itself. The Museum of Contemporary Art, which was closed due to restoration work since years, opened its doors temporarily to host the most important design event of the region

Plugging in to Belgrade Design Week means a number of things. A high-calibre line-up of international speakers. Inspiring conversations and encounters. And a lot of parties. The Serbian capital shows how it’s done.

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Belgrade is set to become the site of the first Zaha Hadid project in the region, the 94,000-square-metre ‘Beko Masterplan’

If you were to create a global map showing the key cities through which game-changing creative ideas flow and where new thinking about products and processes are generated, one of its nodes would undoubtedly be Belgrade. In eight short years, Belgrade Design Week has put the Serbian capital on the creative map, playing annual host to an unmissable pow-wow of the finest creative minds around. (by Simon Keane-Cowell)

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‘Snöbär’ chair by Nataša Vukosavljević and Nebojša Gornjak for Yonder Magnetik

Nataša Vukosavljević and Nebojša Gornjak’s ‘Snöbär’ upholstered chair is named for, and resembles, the Swedish snowberry.

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Next up in our Uncut series is an interview with Ian Ferguson and Martin Postler, the duo behind the London-based multidisciplinary design consultancy PostlerFerguson who told Simon Cowell about the importance of strategic thinking, their dreams of collaborating with NASA and how ‘the role of the designer shifts to a more strategic role’.

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In the next video from our Architonic Uncut series, Simon Cowell interviews the Finnish designer Harri Koskinen at the ‘Future²’ conference during this year’s Belgrade Design Week.

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‘You have to learn to delete your mind’ – Architonic interviews Mike Meiré at the ‘Future²’ conference during this year’s Belgrade Design Week.

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‘Innovation out of necessity’ – Architonic interviews Israeli-born designer, artist, photographer and filmmaker Arik Levy at the ‘Future²’ conference during this year’s Belgrade Design Week.

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Next up in our Uncut series is an interview with Iittala‘s Päivi Jantunen who spoke to Simon Cowell about the future of the famous Finnish brand, the importance of preserving company’s values…and her gardening plans.

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