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Quality of Life
The design of Swedish Innovations and SWEDISH ART & DESIGN EXTENDED
Opening on Monday 20 October 2008 at 7pm
October 20 - November 7, 2008
Gallery One and Two
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QUALITY OF LIFE - the design of Swedish Innovations is an exhibition about contemporary Swedish innovations with focus on design. Today, conscious design is an important factor in the creation of new products, and for this reason designers are often involved from the hatching of the first idea to the finished product.
The exhibition presents some 30 products, from simple but ingenious objects to advanced, pioneering technology. A number of innovations played an important part in the emergence of modern Sweden. To make an innovation into a reality takes knowledge, creativity and the ability to predict a user's needs. Many innovations are known to the public as consumer products which have helped to make our everyday lives simpler and easier. By highlighting Swedish industrial design and Swedish technology, together with medical and pharmaceutical advances, the exhibition shows the significance of innovations as cultural and social phenomena.
Quality of Life is first and foremost a cultural initiative and shows a range of products to provide as multi-faceted an image of Sweden as possible. All the products have a powerful design and technology profile. High-tech, ergonomics, environmental awareness, problem-solving in the design process, visions and creativity have been key ideas in the choice of objects for the exhibition. All products are in current production.