{"id":24979,"date":"2019-06-10T07:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damasketdentelle.com\/?p=24979"},"modified":"2020-07-30T12:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T16:14:54","slug":"the-ikea-democratic-design-days-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damasketdentelle.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/the-ikea-democratic-design-days-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The IKEA Democratic Design Days 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00c4lmhult in Sweden is by no common measure a large city and yet it casts a long and imposing shadow. Home to the first IKEA store some 75 years ago, it now employs a number of its population. I was one of the lucky few from a cohort of international media outlets, to come to this quaint Swedish city and participate to the Democratic Design Days presented by IKEA<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Two days of conferences, announcements (yay!), workshops, and countless stories and photos made for a complete immersion into the company\u2019s culture of sustainability. Like most of us, I have purchased many products to be assembled with the infamous little Allen key. I have lit my tables with their tealights and made beds with their bedding. But I have to humbly confess to the fact that I never fully realised the depth to which their sustainable & democratic approach to \u201cfurnishing for the many<\/em>\u201d went.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Democratic Design Ethos<\/h3>\n

What is democratic design? \u201cWe set a price we can\u2019t increase and we want a quality on which we won\u2019t compromise, and so we must innovate” said an Ikea executive at the conference.<\/p>\n

Of the close to 9,800 products available on our Canadian shelves, not a single product was made in a careless fashion. From ideation, to conception, material sourcing, fabrication, transport, retail, to their use in our own homes, each product follows the same process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Price: At what price shall this product be the most accessible to the many people?<\/li>\n
  2. Function: Can we make something useful for the everyday life?<\/li>\n
  3. Form: Can we make something that looks nice?<\/li>\n
  4. Quality: Will it wear well over time?<\/li>\n
  5. Sustainability: And all these questions, can they be answered with a solution that is good for all of humans and the planet?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    I find these dimensions to be so important and I started to look further at the product offering to see if they were delivering on this utopia of commercial sustainability & affordability to the many. What I found surprised and delighted me<\/strong>. From the most simple Rinnig<\/a> dish brush with its inner core air bubbles to reduce the amount of recyclable plastic used, to meatless meatballs, to the Nypon<\/a> flower pot made from at least 20% of recycled material, to the Odger chair<\/a> made from renewable wood and recycled plastic, time and time again, the attractive form and function of these \u201csmall everyday heroes\u201d met with a price affordable for the many and a sustainability factor that exceed that of most mass producers currently selling similar goods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    My heart has always been set on the beauty and timelessness of vintage and antiques furniture; I find their patina, their history and their craftmanship to be without equal. That being said, I also like the crispness of new sheets, the novelty of a shelf or<\/a> lamp-speaker with embedded Sonos sound<\/a> (The SYMFONISK table lamp WiFi speaker will be sold at $249 and the SYMFONISK WiFi bookshelf speaker will be sold at $149. The entire collection will be sold all across IKEA Canada stores from coast to coast on August 1st<\/sup>), the “adorableness” of a rattan cabinet such as the Stockholm 2017<\/a>, and the commodity of daily accessories & furnishings made possible by current day technologies. This is the reality of our lives and there is no problem in mixing them together. I mean after all what is the expression: something old, something new, something borrowed\u2026. and always something blue!\u00a0Lucky me, blue is also a favorite\u00a0colour at IKEA this season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Watch out for new collabs too like the one with Virgil Abloh due out at the end 2019 as well as the one with the World Surf League<\/a>, to be unveiled next year, which will focus on the transformation of ocean-bound plastics, with.<\/p>\n

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    \u00c4lmhult in Sweden is by no common measure a large city and yet it casts a long and imposing shadow. Home to the first IKEA store some 75 years ago, it now employs a number of its population. I was one of the lucky few from a cohort of international media outlets, to come to…<\/p>\n

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