ExperimentaDesign is an international platform open to reflection and experimentation and devoted to design, project culture and creativity. As of 2008, this innovative, multidisciplinary event, founded in Lisbon, will take place alternately in Lisbon and Amsterdam. Its focus is design in its broadest sense: design as a tool, as a process of creation. ExperimentaDesign positions itself at the cutting edge of the modern culture, promoting the creation of laboratories, setting up international working parties and developing strategic synergies between cultural agents.

Challenge and experiment
ExperimentaDesign is essentially a reason for creating, and then, also, a space for exhibiting. It programmes possibilities, challenges participants, crosses paths, questions, experiments. It thinks about aesthetics,
ethics, social cohesion, industry, sustainability and economy. But above all it thinks about people.

Coming soon to Amsterdam

ExperimentaDesign’s first four editions took place in Lisbon. Now, in 2008, with the new platform created between the Dutch and Portuguese capitals, Amsterdam will host ExperimentaDesign for the first time. The theme this year is Space and Place, focusing on the questions raised by new urban landscapes and contemporary living in cities.

As in all other editions of ExperimentaDesign, the programme is designed to appeal to a range of audiences, from professionals to the general public. The opening week, filled with exhibitions, conferences, debates and
urban interventions, is a moment of strong social experience. People come from all around the world to listen, see, share and celebrate design and architecture.

ExperimentaDesign – Lisboa/Amsterdam is the result of a collaboration between ExperimentaDesign and the ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam Foundation, and between the cities of Lisbon and Amsterdam, with the local partnership of Droog Design.