10.15 - 10.17.2008. Participants from around the globe will be back in Malmö, southern Sweden, for the second annual edition of Designboost on October 15-17. The vision of this year's event being "sharing design knowledge" and as main theme THE SUSTAINABLE CITY. Among the speakers are lifestyle guru Ilse Crawford, architect Bjarke Ingels and designer Ilkka Suppanen.
"The sustainable city is all about how we build houses, roads and parks. How we consume and translocate. How we live and educate ourselves. In shorter terms - how to, in the best way, create a sustainable city for a good life," says David Carlson, one of Designboost's founders.

At the main event Designboost will carry out thirty workshops for invited participants at the two top floors of the Turning Torso building. ..ideas with a holistic point of view on design and the sustainable city will be debated, exchanged and tried. The participants are a mix of a hundred creative people from around the world that all work with design along with representatives from the business world, schools and organizations. Twenty lectures will be given on the subject of the sustainable city at Malmö University, as well as an exhibition visualizing those ideas. Both are open to the public.
"We can shape our surrounding world and our future with the help of design. With design we can shape the society of tomorrow. Through integrating social, economic and cultural elements we can create more sustainable cities," says Peer Eriksson, another of the founders behind Designboost.

The sustainable city involves not only the environmental aspect but also...
..neither questions nor answers are given. There are no truths. The important objective is looking at things from new angles and to get a push forward—exactly what the word boost means.