Awareness & Location
Design Month Graz 2021
The annual Design Month Graz, organized by Creative Industries Styria, provides a stage for the versatile range of services of the creative sector. Cancelled in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Design Month Graz 2021 was able to return this year with the program focus “Better Future”. On May 7, 2021, the opening of the Design Month Graz was streamed online from the “Fantastic Plastic” exhibition. It was the first major festival in Graz after many months plagued with lockdowns,
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cancellations, postponements and closures. The program focus of the Design Month Graz 2021, “Better Future”, explored the question of what designers can contribute to creating a better future. Better Future was the common thread running through the numerous formats that Design Month Graz brought to the stage, from exhibitions and small events to lectures. The “Fantastic Plastic” exhibition, a cooperation with the Moscow Design Museum, presented products from international design labels that used
