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BDW BECOMES MEMBER OF BUREAU OF EUROPEAN DESIGN ASSOCIATIONS (BEDA) |
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Just a few days before the beginning of Future2 conference within Belgrade Design Week 2011, our organization became a member of the Bureau of European Design Associations BEDA. Belgrade Design Week is the first festival of this kind in the entire SEE region to acquire BEDA's membership, among more than forty design associations, regional and national design promotion centers and councils, as well as design education institutions. BEDA exists to ensure permanent liaison between its members and the authorities of the European Union in order to communicate and promote the value of design and innovation to the European economy.
Photos: Belgrade Design Week Highlights 2010 & 2011
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Photo top left: Aric Levy BDW 2011
Photo top right: Dieter Meier BDW 2011
Photo bottom: Touch Yello! Concert BDW 2011 |
By becoming BEDA's member, Belgrade Design Week will be able to join other European design organizations in their effort to exchange information, experience and activities for the purpose of creating a cohesive entity and raising public and client awareness of the cultural, economic, social and educational value of design. BEDA was established in 1969 and acts as a single body representing the interests of the European design community towards the governmental and intergovernmental institutions at European level, and works towards harmonizing professional design qualifications and raising and maintaining standards in Europe. BEDA seeks to promote design at the pan-European level to increase design's acceptance as a vital component of Europe's innovation strategy and cultural identity. It represents the interests of the practicing design professionals, which account for some 400,000 designers across Europe to the institutions of the European Union.
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BEDA IN THE BOARD OF EUROPEAN DESIGN INNOVATION INITIATIVE |
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"I am delighted that Belgrade Design Week has joined BEDA at the time
when design as a driver of innovation is getting unprecedented recognition at
a European policy level. The way that design and designers can help
business growth and help us live better and more sustainable lives are big
policy challenges, and we want to ensure that BEDA members,
representatives of European design communities, are included in these
important conversations.Belgrade Design Week is a powerful design platform
in the region and I am very much looking forward to working together on
these big policy challenges and learning more about Serbian design."
Deborah Dawton, President BEDA
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"BDW is the only BEDA member from South East Europe, and above all, the only
festival in the world who was admitted to this exclusive society of the most important
international and national professional design associations! It took almost 10 years of
hard work at the highest level in changing the perception of the role of creative
festivals in the modern society today, and this was recognized by the leading global
media and decision makers in the international creative community.
The joy is even greater as Belgrade Design Week is a completely private initiative.
The festival is produced by a strictly non-profit association of citizens, working with
very little to no governmental support at all from year to year, showcasing a new,
sustainable and responsible model for development of culture and business in
modern society.
We hope that contacts with EU institutions through the BEDA membership will open
new doors for BDW, and foster more efficiently our only mission: the development of
the so-called "knowledge society" in Serbia. "
Jovan Jelovac, Founder and Curator of Belgrade Design Week
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BEDA IN THE BOARD OF EUROPEAN DESIGN INNOVATION INITIATIVE |
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BEDA President (2011-2013) Deborah Dawton is Chief Executive Officer of the Design Business Association, the UK's Trade Association for design businesses. BEDA Vice-President Isabel Roig is the Director of the Barcelona Design Center. At the invitation of Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, both BEDA President and Vice-President attended the first meeting of the newly established European Design Leadership Board, which took place in Helsinki on Friday27th May 2011. The newly established board of fifteen members from umbrella organizations, design promotion institutions, leading academics, industrialists and designers will steer the European Design Innovation Initiative (EDII) with the aim to exploit the full potential of design for innovation and to reinforce the link between design, innovation and competitiveness. The European Design Innovation Initiative is to be launched by Commissioner Tajani as a component of the Innovation Union later this summer. The Innovation Union is one of seven flagship initiatives of EU's growth strategy: Europe 2020, following BEDA's Design Manifesto requesting that the European Commission include design as a key driver in its innovation policy.
Photo left: Matthew Dear Concert BDW 2011
Photo right: Jaime Hayon BDW 2010
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DESIGN AS A DRIVER OF INNOVATION IN EUROPE |
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Belgrade Design Week, by being member of BEDA, will contribute to the efforts of addressing the importance of design and raising awareness of design as a driver of innovation in Europe.
Photo left: Martin Gran of Snohetta BDW 2011
Photo top right: Goran Lelas Workshop DizajnLabs BDW 2011
Photo bottom right: Dejana Kabiljo Workshop DizajnLabs BDW 2011
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