DesignTalks 2022 - Valdís Steinarsdóttir, designer

Valdís Steinarsdóttir, designer is speaking at DesignTalks 2022, the international conference and signature event of DesignMarch, exploring how design and architecture can help imagine and propose alternative futures and promote change.

“With design, you can imagine the possibilities of the future by reversing modern customs.“

Valdís Steinarsdóttir works in Iceland as an independent designer, mainly focusing on material experiments by recycling organic matter. In her work, she seeks to engage in a dialogue with her audience and strives to find unique solutions to social and environmental issues.

Amongst other acknowledgements Valdís was nominated for the Icelandic Presidential Innovation Award, Shortlisted in Dezeen Awards in the category Emerging designer of the year and winner of Formex Nova Award – Nordic Designer of the Year 2020.

DesignTalks 2022 will take place in Harpa on the 4th of May and is curated by Hlin Helga Guðlaugsdóttir. This year the event will be moderated by Marcus Fairs, editor-in-chief and founder of Dezeen, connecting the conversations to a wider context, highlighting its relevance to an audience across professional fields.

The programme will be an exploration of resilient approaches, regeneration and reconnection with traditional crafts and indigenious wisdom, experiments rewiring and rethinking current systems, the design of data and information, extended realities and speculation into the future as a form of creative and critical reflection of the now.

“It will be a celebration of imagination - and a moment for deep thinking.”
- curator Hlin Helga

Stay tuned as we will announce the speakers for DesignTalks 2022!