Design Disruptors: Dezeen talks at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025
Stockholm, Sweden
Dezeen’s Design Disruptors talks take place at the Paper Bar during Stockholm Furniture Fair. Comprising keynotes and panel discussions, the talks focus on ‘design disruptors’ and the people, technologies, materials or processes that are shaking up the way the design industry operates today and in the future.
Taking place during the first two days of the fair, the talks feature a lineup including speakers such as Faye Toogood, Natsai Audrey Chieza, Ineke Hans and Marta Giralt Dunjó. Read on for our full programme of talks.
Tuesday 4 February:
Manufracture: keynote with Faye Toogood
Moderated by Cajsa Carlson, deputy editor of Dezeen
11:00am to 12:00pm
We are surrounded by design, but British designer Faye Toogood wants you to ask more questions about it. In this keynote, Toogood spotlights the complex and symbiotic relationships between people, craft skills, materials and processes when designing objects. She throws light on her disruptive yet playful design process, her deep respect and knowledge of manufacture and her restless pursuit of quality.
Aligned with her Manufracture installation, the designer explains why she thinks the manufacturing industry is broken and the role of the designer is fracturing.
Moderated by Jennifer Hahn, design and environment editor of Dezeen
1:00pm to 2:00pm
How are material innovations and new fabrication technologies changing the fabric of the world around us? Will our future be made from radical new materials, developed through technologies such as bioengineering, or can we find new value in materials that are currently overlooked or treated as waste? Our panellists reveal how new approaches to materials are shaping their work and how they might enable a shift to a circular economy.
Speakers: Natsai Audrey Chieza, founder and CEO of Faber Futures; Cristiano Pigazzini, creative director of Note Design Studio; and Celine Sandberg, CEO of Agoprene.
Wednesday 5 February:
Design disruption: keynote with Ineke Hans
Moderated by Max Fraser, editorial director of Dezeen
11:00am to 12:00pm
Good design often answers a complexity of question, in which different aspects such as materials, techniques, psychology, poetry, function and social context intersect. At a time when we have to urgently produce and waste less while improving lives, it is necessary for us to continually interrogate and challenge all aspects of mass production as well as social and environmental change.
Designer and educator Ineke Hans talks about her work and how to disrupt more, waste less and act better.
Moderated by Amy Frearson, editor-at-large of Dezeen
1:00pm to 2:00pm
The power of artificial intelligence to produce striking visual images is clear. But how else might it revolutionise the design process? Could it help us make more responsible choices? Our panellists reveal the result of their experiments with AI and other digital tools such as virtual reality and blockchain. They discuss the opportunities and challenges of AI becoming a digital design collaborator and how it might pave the way for radical new approaches to designing and making.
Speakers: Sean Barrett, head of innovation at Interesting Times Gang; Marta Giralt Dunjó, design director of FranklinTill; Carl-Axel Wahlström, founder and CEO of The Copy Laboratory; and Alexandra Zenner, creative strategy lead at Gharage.
Design Disruptors: Dezeen talks at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 takes place from 4 to 5 February 2025 at the Paper Bar and stage area in Hall A, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholmsmässan, Mässvägen 1, 125 30 Älvsjö, Sweden.