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Outlandish Optimism
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN DAY 2025
APRIL 26–27 IN VILNIUS
The International Design Council dared to raise a globally relevant topic – bold optimism. The Lithuanian Design Association will dare to implement it.
PROGRAM
HOW DARE WE?
In times of ecological and social crises. In the face of war. In a world that seems to have gone mad. How dare we create? When it would be easier, or perhaps more correct, to accept pessimism, creation becomes an expression of audacious optimism. And because of that, it becomes necessary.
On April 27, International Design Day, we will explore the theme of audacious optimism. We invite you to embrace this radical design approach – we present a program that did not fit into one day. All from audacious optimism.
- Fri, Apr 25Marcin Nowicki (PL) ir Yuri Veerman (NL): apie jų dizaino praktikas ir procesus (ENG) /Medinės miesto architektūros muziejus
- Fri, Apr 25Apr 25, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMGARDEN 2123, Vitebsko St. 23, 11350 Vilnius, LithuaniaIn February, a book inspired by extraordinary optimism was published - "Tara: Then and Now, Here and There". It is a book that tells the story of the most important graphic design institution operating in Vilnius in the 1960s and 1970s - the Experimental Container and Packaging Design Bureau, and the artists who worked there.
- Apr 26, 2025, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PMRadziwill Palace Art Museum, Vilnius St. 24, 01402 Vilnius, LithuaniaWe are optimistic that everyone will gather for the most important event of the Lithuanian design association – the general meeting of members. Sounds formal? Yes, but it is a great opportunity to share the work done, discuss future plans and strengthen our design community. It would be impudent not to participate.
- Sat, Apr 26Apr 26, 2025, 4:00 PM – 4:45 PMGallery Gates, Vilnius St. 39, 01102 Vilnius, LithuaniaIn the exhibition, designers create a room of the future, filled with speculations about the everyday life of the future. These become a way not only to respond to today's challenges, but also to create a future in which the center is no longer the person and their choices.
- Sat, Apr 26Apr 26, 2025, 4:30 PM – 7:00 PMRadziwill Palace Art Museum, Vilnius St. 24, 01402 Vilnius, LithuaniaGreat optimism sometimes leads to great failures. Talking about them is unusual, uncomfortable, but very interesting. Fail Nights are the only storytelling events of this format that encourage you not to be afraid to talk about professional things that didn't work out. Or didn't work out according to plan.
- Sun, Apr 27Apr 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PMRadziwill Palace Art Museum, Vilnius St. 24, 01402 Vilnius, LithuaniaPhilosopher David M. Kaplan dared to argue that food is an ambiguous phenomenon. Is it nature, nutrition, biological fuel for the body, medicine, diet, pleasure, taboo, commodity, one of the basic needs of survival, a medium for communicating meaning, a means of expressing spirituality, a recipe or… art?
- Sun, Apr 27
- Sun, Apr 27Apr 27, 2025, 3:15 PM – 4:30 PMRadziwill Palace Art Museum, Vilnius St. 24, 01402 Vilnius, LithuaniaAs we move around Vilnius, we constantly think about, sit down and hold on to design solutions. When they perform their function perfectly, we don't even pay attention to them. The tour invites you to pay attention to design objects in Vilnius.
- Sun, Apr 27Apr 27, 2025, 3:15 PM – 4:00 PMGallery Gates, Vilnius St. 39, 01102 Vilnius, LithuaniaIn the exhibition, designers create a room of the future filled with speculations about the everyday life of the future. These become a way not only to respond to today's challenges, but also to create a future in which the center is no longer the person and their choices.
- Sun, Apr 27Apr 27, 2025, 4:30 PM – 5:00 PMMuseum of Wooden Urban Architecture, Polocko St. 52, 01205 Vilnius, LithuaniaIn February, a book inspired by extraordinary optimism was published - "Tara: Then and Now, Here and There". It is a book that tells the story of the most important graphic design institution operating in Vilnius in the 1960s and 1970s - the Experimental Container and Packaging Design Bureau, and the artists who worked there.
- Sun, Apr 27Apr 27, 2025, 5:15 PM – 7:00 PMMuseum of Wooden Urban Architecture, Polocko St. 52, 01205 Vilnius, LithuaniaTwo design professionals from Poland and the Netherlands have dared to come to Lithuania and will spend a week exploring the theme of “audacity optimism” for International Design Day. They will dare to present the results of their design residency to the Lithuanian design community and the public. It would be audacity to miss it.
- Sat, Apr 26…and here is the design @ Backstage Cafe / Vilnius Museum (LT/ENG) /Backstage Cafe / Vilnius MuseumApr 26, 2025, 5:30 PM – May 09, 2025, 7:00 PMBackstage Cafe / Vilnius Museum, Vokiečių St. 6, 01130 Vilnius, LithuaniaDesign is everywhere. We wear it, we wear it, we sit on it. Even now, we look at it. On the occasion of International Design Day, we will be able to experience this bold statement with our bodies.
- Tue, Apr 22
- Fri, Apr 25Apr 25, 2025, 5:30 PM – May 24, 2025, 7:00 PMGallery Gates, Vilnius St. 39, 01102 Vilnius, LithuaniaIn the exhibition, designers create a room of the future, filled with speculations about the everyday life of the future. These become a way not only to respond to today's challenges, but also to create a future in which the center is no longer the person and their choices.
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