Sustainability is key for Switzerland’s young designers

How do young Swiss designers make an impact in an international market, and what’s important to them as they set out in their careers? An event in Copenhagen showed how Swiss design fits into a modern, sustainable landscape. Christian Paul Kaegi is standing in a large room of the Swiss Embassy in the Danish capital, fielding questions about the product he’s designed: a sustainable backpack. He’s here as part of the annual ‘3daysofdesign’ event, which sees talks and workshops taking place all over the city on the last weekend of May. From a personal point of view, it’s a chance for Kaegi to network and raise his profile on an international level, but for the organisers of the Swiss programme, this is an important weekend to promote Swiss design outside the country’s borders.  It’s been a decade since the industrial designer and his colleagues from the company Qwstion  started looking for alternatives to oil-based synthetic materials to make their bags. Setting up their own ...