All forms of design. In November. In Olomouc.

For the second time, the Olomouc Design Days festival will turn Olomouc into a city of design for the whole month of November. Compared to last year’s edition, this year’s programme will more than double in size, offering not only exhibitions or discussions, but also a number of workshops and family friendly events that will entertain young and old children and their parents.

Just like last year, this year’s Olomouc Design Days will kick off with the opening of the exhibition Harvest 2024, this time subtitled Sown. Sprouted. Ripe. The exhibition will once again be a curated selection of products from regional creators from various artistic fields and will again fill the premises of Studio G21 on Olomouc’s Dolní náměstí. It will be on display until the end of November.

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Program everywhere and for everyone

If you like to draw inspiration or learn news from the world of design, you will find yourself at the ten upcoming discussions and lectures that will take place throughout the month in various places in Olomouc. The Open Studios event will even let you take a peek under the hands of skilled creators and let your creativity and imagination run wild at more than three dozen workshops and creative workshops. This year, the Moravian Theatre Olomouc has also prepared an audio-visual show and interactive talks, which will inaugurate a new space – Seven – near Horní náměstí as part of Olomouc Design Days. The Secondary School of Design and Fashion in Prostějov will present trends in dressing at the Fashion show.

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Smetana Sady will also come alive with design

The fact that waste can sometimes be a treasure, and what role flowers can play in design, will be shown in a public symposium led by the world-famous florist Robert Bartolen and in the subsequent exhibition in the orangery in Smetana Gardens Flowers ↔ Mess ↔ Photos. And the exhibition Generation Brussels: ten centenaries will also take place at the same venue. It will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of ten personalities of Czech glass and ceramic design and will commemorate names such as Jaroslav Ježek, Jitka Forejtová, Pavel Hlava and Věra Lišková.

Gallery in the streets and designer coffee

This year’s Olomouc Design Days are full of novelties. One of them is Dizajn Display: a gallery in the streets that will transform the centre of Olomouc into an exhibition hall and fill the windows of currently unused buildings with the latest creations of local product designers. And if you follow the motto “but first, coffee”, then you will definitely be attracted by the combination of Olomouc cafés and roasters with local ceramic and porcelain manufacturers, who will together offer “coffee for local design”.

Christmas gifts in time for the Design Fairu

We have good news for those who like to buy their Christmas presents early and quietly. The end of the Olomouc Design Days will belong to the Design Fair, which will fill the premises of Konvikt on the last weekend of November with original fashion, cosmetics, home decorations and other must-have pieces from independent local creators.

This year’s Olomouc Design Days has a packed programme and although it may not be possible to catch everything, there is definitely plenty to choose from! All the information and everything you need to know about Olomouc Design Days can be found on the website www.olomoucdesigndays.cz.