SIIDEF Product Design International Exhibition 2022

DESPRO NEWS (October 08, 2020) The 2022 SIIDEF (Sewon International Industrial Design Fair) event, which consists of Exhibition, Seminar, and National Meeting, will be opened on Monday, October 10, 2022 at 09.30 WIB at the Plaza of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Yogyakarta Institute of Arts Campus, Jl Parangtritis KM 6.5 Sewon-Bantul, Yogyakarta by the Minister of Education and Culture, Nadiem Anwar Makarim, B.A., M.B.A. accompanied by the Rector of ISI Yogyakarta, Prof. Dr. M. Agus Burhan, M.Hum, and the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dr. Timbul Raharjo, M.Hum, and of course the Head of the Product Design Study Program, Endro Tri Susanto, M.Sn. as the host. SIIDEF is an activity organized by the Product Design Study Program, ISI Yogyakarta and is a series of activities in the field of Product Design (Industrial Design / Product Design) on an international scale. The name "Sewon" itself is taken from the Sewon kapanewon (district) where the ISI Yogyakarta campus is located. This event is held every 2 years and involves institutions both from within the country and from friendly countries.

In this event, 4 countries took part, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Germany. The main activity of SIIDEF was the exhibition which took place at Sutopo Gallery, Product Design Building 1st floor, ISI Yogyakarta. No less than 80 product design works were exhibited, consisting of 6 from Thailand (Silpakorn University), 17 from Malaysia (UiTM and USM), 1 from Germany (Hannover Hochshule), and the rest from Indonesia (ISI Yogyakarta, UKDW, UPH, ITATS, UBAYA, ITTP, Univ. Prasetiya Mulya, Ciputra University, and Telkom University). The 80 works displayed were taken from more than 100 works registered with the SIIDEF committee and have passed the curation stage which is mainly determined by the suitability with the SIIDEF 2022 theme, namely "Contemporary Design Identity: optimistic yet realistic and contemporary problem solution." The SIIDEF exhibition will be held from October 10 - 22, 2022 and is open to the public and can be visited every weekday from 08.30-16.00 WIB.