Ukurant Makes Room for a New Generation of Experimental Design

During 3daysofdesign 2026, Ukurant returns with its fifth exhibition, bringing together a carefully curated selection of experimental works by young designers from across the world. Titled Ukurant Makes Room, the exhibition continues the platform’s commitment to supporting emerging voices within the wider design scene, offering space for new ideas, material investigations and alternative ways of thinking about craft, production and contemporary objects.

Founded in 2019, Ukurant has become a meeting point for designers working outside conventional commercial frameworks. Rather than presenting design as a finished and fixed discipline, the platform approaches it as a field of inquiry, where making, questioning and testing remain central to the work.

DESIGN AS AN OPEN PRACTICE

This year’s exhibition presents twenty six experimental works that engage with inherited traditions while pushing them into unfamiliar territory. Across furniture, objects, material studies and spatial gestures, the selected designers explore how established forms can be reconsidered through new techniques, sensory qualities and production methods.

The exhibition positions design as an open and exploratory practice. Instead of treating convention as something to reject entirely, many of the works use it as a starting point for negotiation. Familiar references are stretched, softened, disrupted or reassembled, allowing each designer to develop a distinct position within a broader conversation about what contemporary design can become.

By bringing together different approaches, Ukurant Makes Room creates a setting where individual narratives can coexist without being flattened into a single theme. The result is a diverse field of experiments, shaped by material curiosity, craft intelligence and a shared interest in the potential of process.

INSIDE FABRIKKEN FOR ART AND DESIGN

The 2026 edition takes place at FABRIKKEN for Art and Design, a former factory in Copenhagen that now houses a large creative community. With its many studios and daily exchanges between artists, designers and makers, the building reflects Ukurant’s own emphasis on collective practice and cross generational dialogue.

Within this context, the exhibition foregrounds not only the finished works, but also the decisions, trials and material considerations behind them. Processes of making are placed in view, allowing visitors to understand the labour, care and intention embedded in each piece.

The exhibition architecture responds to the scale and atmosphere of the factory hall. Large paper podiums form a series of neutral platforms, giving each work space to unfold while maintaining a sense of continuity across the exhibition. Built from rented stage platforms, the spatial design reduces the need for new materials and reflects a restrained approach to exhibition making.

Ukurant Makes Room is curated and designed by Ukurant’s founders Kasper Kyster, Josefine Krabbe, Kamma Rosa Schytte and Lærke Ryom. Developed from an open call, the selection focuses on experimental and forward looking approaches to materials, craftsmanship and production.

Through contrasts, interactions and shifting scales, the exhibition reflects Ukurant’s idea of a collective platform. It does not simply introduce young designers to an established audience. It creates a space where new perspectives can question existing structures, expand the vocabulary of contemporary design and suggest other ways of making, presenting and inhabiting objects.

VISITOR INFORMATION

Ukurant Makes Room takes place during 3daysofdesign 2026 from 10 to 12 June at FABRIKKEN for Art and Design, Sundholmsvej 46, 2300 Copenhagen.

The exhibition is open daily from 10:00 to 18:00. The vernissage takes place on 10 June from 16:00 to 20:00, followed by an after party from 20:00 to 01:00.

More information is available at www.ukurant.com.

Event Credit

Exhibition and curation: Ukurant / @ukurant_
Curator: Lærke Ryom, Kamma Rosa Schytte, Josefine Krabbe and Kasper Kyster
Photos: Maya Matsuura / @mayanoue
Visual identity: Søren Pihl (@soren_pihl)
Exhibition design: Ukurant (@ukurant_)
Location: Fabrikken For Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark