UNESCO Creative Cities Network Design City Kolding

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4 Kolding Kommune Kolding is located centrally in Denmark in the middle of the Triangle Region with more than 500,000 jobs within a one-hour drive. Kolding has more than 92,000 inhabitants, and Copenhagen and Hamburg is a mere two-hour drive away. Similarly, Billund International Airport can be reached by car within 40 minutes. Kolding hosts two universities with approx.10,500 students of which approx. 2,000 study design.

5 UNESCO Creative Cities Network Welcoming Global Societies for Cultural Exchange, Business and Collaboration The honourable designation of Kolding Municipality as a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) Design is a huge milestone in the development of Kolding as a design community! Seven years ago Kolding Municipality acknowledged the need for new ways of developing new approaches to welfare, social responsibility, cultural creativity and business development. The City Council adopted a strategic vision: We Design for Life. Today Kolding has succeeded in implementing design thinking in several areas. Developing a design-driven community is still a main goal for the city, and design thinking has the capacity to play a decisive role in developing the Nordic welfare system version 2.0. The membership of the UCCN Design is a great opportunity for Kolding to share and spread first-hand experience with design-driven innovation in the public sector, in business environment, in education and research and in the field of cultural exchange and collaboration. The membership also enables Kolding to develop and expand national and international networks and to function as a vibrant and sharing partner of other design communities. Collaboration and cultural exchange are essential to the city s ambition to become a full-scale design-thinking community. MAYOR JØRN PEDERSEN 4 5

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7 UNESCO Creative Cities Network From Vision to Reality From political strategy through leadership to action. 900 people or 1% of Kolding s population participated in developing Kolding s new vision. The group represented a broad cross-section of the population and was diverse in terms of gender, ethnicity, age and education. The slogan We Design for Life was a political and administrative decision to focus on a new area. To create an up-to-date leadership culture 250 managers were involved in a design process aimed to develop a new management foundation based on the new vision. Today all managers are offered regular training in design management. Due to the use of design processes the citizens are regularly involved in the municipality s development on at least two levels: 1) All design-driven social innovation projects are based on the dogma that research into the context and involvement of the affected citizens is required in order to gain human-centred insight. In addition, the citizens function as vital partners at the various test stages. 2) Creative urban and aesthetic city development is largely characterised by co-creation, where the affected and interested stakeholders take part in the creative idea generation process. 900 people participated in developing Kolding s new vision We Design for Life 6 7

8 Kolding Kommune Together we design options for a better life through entrepreneurship, social development and education & knowledge KOLDING MUNICIPALITY VISION 2022 CITIZENS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INSTITUTIONS DESIGNING DESIGNING A GOOD LIFE EDUCATION & KNOWLEDGE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT DESIGNING BUSINESS

9 UNESCO Creative Cities Network DEFINE/SCREENING TASK & CHALLANGE TEST RESULTS/ ADJUSTMENTS DISCOVERY DEFINE PROBLEMS & POSSIBILITIES IDEATION CATALOG OF IDEAS/MOCK UPS CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT TESTING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTS/ SERVICES IMPLEMEN- TATION CONCEPTS/ PROTOTYPES ENSURE IMPACT/ COMMUNI- CATION 8 9

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11 UNESCO Creative Cities Network Kolding Design Environment International and collaborative perspectives have been a main priority throughout the process of realising the vision for Kolding and in connection with the designation of Kolding as UCCN member. The partners collaborate on a daily basis and especially in connection with Design Week Kolding. KEY PLAYERS: Design School Kolding SDU University of Southern Denmark TRAPHOLT Museum of Modern Art and Design KOLDINGHUS Museum Shows design with a historic approach BUSINESS KOLDING D2I Design to Innovate Kolding Municipality Network of approx. 250 design-related companies More than 100 activities during Design Week Kolding

12 Kolding Kommune SDU University of Southern Denmark Design School Kolding THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK has more than 27,000 students and 4,000 employees. SDU Kolding is one of six local campuses all with a global perspective and main focus on education and research. At SDU Kolding the pivotal points are the fields of design, entrepreneurship, business studies, IT and communication. The university attracts both students and researchers from all over the world and cooperates with e.g entrepreneurs and business organizations to innovate society through design. DESIGN SCHOOL KOLDING are a locally rooted learning environment at university level with an international focus. By attracting talents and close collaborators from all over the world we give our students the competences and contacts to succeed in a global labour market with a global agenda.

13 UNESCO Creative Cities Network Business Kolding Design to Innovate BUSINESS KOLDING strives to provide business promotion and services based on the vision: We Design for Life. Together with our partners we are present in the Triangle Region as well as at national and international levels! We develop and support creative businesses and knowledge environment surrounding them for the purpose of creating sustainable growth. DESIGN TO INNOVATE is a Danish design cluster supporting sustainable design-based business development and growth in companies. This is done by combining research, business and design practice in all initiatives. We adopt the factual idea that strategic use of design improves companies competitive position

14 Kolding Kommune Koldinghus The Old Castle KOLDINGHUS represents design in contemporary and historic perspectives as well as the shared history of the castle and the city. The museum houses a silver collection that takes the visitors on a journey through a history of style. It gives visitors an overview of the varying trends and fashions within silver design over the centuries. Koldinghus also presents projects by the given year s graduates from Design School Kolding.

15 UNESCO Creative Cities Network Art and design TRAPHOLT offers changing exhibitions within art, design and crafts at an international level. The museum houses a large collection of Danish furniture design form the early golden age to the present. Trapholt focusses on providing interactive experiences and therefore constantly develops new offers targeted at adults, children and families, ensuring that everyone gets the most out of their visit to the museum

16 Kolding Kommune MØLLER & GRØNBORG A/S Case: Troldhedestien Collective impact space for everyone Over 3 years a 10-km stretch of the area TROLDHEDESTIEN will be expanded with new venues and activities. Troldhedestien is located along an old railway line and is meant to attract all kinds of citizens, including weakminded, visually impaired, disabled, mentally and socially vulnerable citizens, who do not use the area much today. The goal is for meetings in the open space to create new communities between citizens with widely different beliefs, and to succeed in creating such attractive and inclusive communities requires both commitment across the municipality and ongoing user involvement.

17 UNESCO Creative Cities Network Case: Kolding Light Festival Kolding Light Festival is a three-day event offering approx. 100,000 visitors a new and different experience of light as a creative medium. The festival involves and explores the city of Kolding via light and sound. Kolding Light Festival was held for the first time in December 2013 and has become an annual event held in the second weekend of December

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19 UNESCO Creative Cities Network Collaborative activities Local Impact, Global Reach DESIGN WEEK KOLDING (DWK) 2019 #2 will be developed, organised and conducted in cooperation with local, national and international stakeholders. The various activities will reflect and attract kinds of citizens through the four-track concept: Guest, Citizen, Business and Education. We celebrate, co-create, experience and explore design. (Other creative fields: crafts and folk arts). generation of Nordic Design Thinking may unfold its potential within strategic design and leadership. Workshops and lectures of new exciting projects will showcase how technology, societal conditions and aesthetics share common ground with Scandinavian design history and possibly contribute to a creative future for the next generation of design with a global impact. CONFERENCE: SOCIAL IMPACT 2018 #2 deals with design-driven welfare development in the public sector via exchange of experiences with a group of national and international speakers in plenum combined with e.g. breakout sessions in smaller groups. Participants must receive concrete tools, which they can take with them and use in their future work. SEMINAR: NEW NORDIC DESIGN THINKING Initiated by the University of Southern Denmark, Design School Kolding and Kolding Municipality. The seminar will explore how the next CONFERENCE: PPI/LDL 2018 #1 (Public Private Innovation/Living Design Lab). The conference will take place in the summer of 2018 by initiation of, in close collaboration with universities, public partners and private sector stakeholders. KOLDING LIGHT FESTIVAL provide visitors a new and different experience of Kolding city, through exciting light sets, video visuals, interactive installations and light art. The festival inspires and attracts many visitors, such as residents, tourists, artists and designers. Triangle Region Festival 2017 is launched in the Chapel at Koldinghus 18 19

20 Welcome to Kolding Kolding s Municipal administration welcomes you and is ready to assist you in any way we can. Contact information: Mayor Jørn Pedersen, tel , jorp@kolding.dk CEO Thomas Boe, tel , thbo@kolding.dk Head of Design Ulrik Jungersen, tel , ulju@kolding.dk