Is this your first time at our Festival? It's good that you're here! We have prepared some essential information to help you make the most of our events:
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Yes, you can enter the GDD platform using an app that you may download from AppStore (iOS) or Google Play (Android). You can also download the ZOOM app, which we are going to use to hold workshops and some of the events.
In order to join the workshops, you have to fill in a form that you may find in two places:
1. on the GDD website: open the programme section, select the workshops you’d like to participate in, click register and fill in the form.
2. on the GDD platform: in the description of each event in the Events tab.
The capacity is limited, so registration for each workshop is obligatory. Following successful registration, you’ll get a confirmation e-mail with a link to the online event and access code. All links are also provided in the descriptions of individual workshops. You can use them to add events to your calendar. Remember to tie each event with the access code from the e-mail. Your identity will be verified again in the online waiting room, so remember to always provide your real data.
Joining a lecture is really easy. The simplest way is by clicking the Stage tab (on the left of the GDD platform), which will take you to the live event being broadcast at the moment. You can also click on the Events tab, and then the event titled GDD stage, whose description includes the festival programme. There you’ll also find a link to the broadcast.
Interpretation services will be provided on chosen events.
Lectures by: Iza Bołoz (05/07/2020, 5:00 – 5:45 p.m.), Róża Janusz (05/07/2020, 6:00 – 6:45 p.m.), Filip Springer and Julia Fiedorczuk (05/07/2020 7:00 – 7:45 p.m.) will be translated into English. Translation to polish sign language also provided.
This is where you'll find topics that will be discussed during GDD and DtB 2020. They refer to this year’s festival motto, Attention, as well as our lectures on the GDD stage and workshops. Above all, this is a place to exchange ideas about specific subjects.
This is also where you'll find all events divided by category.
Business events, i.e. Design talks Business Summit and Design talks Business First Steps are marked with #dtbsummit or #dtbfirststeps. You’ll also find them in the Events tab, just like the others. If you haven’t found the event you’re looking for at the top of the list, scroll down. You’ll soon find it using the hashtag in the Topics tab.
We’ve got good news for you! Our unique online edition of Gdynia Design Days and Design talks Business is 100% free of charge. We’ve prepared an extremely interesting programme of inspirational presentations and practical case studies which will be available without registration on the DtBusiness stage. Registration applies to workshops, project challenges and the Polish backyard. In order to join events with limited capacity, you have to fill in a form that you may find in two places:
1. on the GDD website: open the programme section and select the events you’re interested in. Click register to fill in the form.
2. on the GDD platform: in the description of each event in the Events tab.
Following successful registration to a limited capacity event, you’ll get a confirmation e-mail with a link to the online event and access code. All links are also provided in the descriptions of individual events. You can add them to your calendar. Remember to tie the event with the access code from the e-mail. Your identity will be verified again in the online waiting room, so remember to always provide your real data.
(Events available in polish only)
Yes, DtB First Steps is only available to registered users. In order to join DtB First Steps events, you have to fill in a form that you may find in two places:
1. on the GDD website: open the programme section and select the events you’re interested in. Click register to fill in the form.
2. on the GDD platform: in the description of each event in the Events tab.
Each of the events from the DtB First Steps series is subject to registration owing to limited capacity. Following successful registration to each event, you’ll get a confirmation e-mail with a link to the online event and access code. All links are also provided in the descriptions of individual events. You can add them to your calendar. Remember to tie the event with the access code from the e-mail. Your identity will be verified again in the online waiting room, so remember to always provide your real data.
Links to film shown in the Cinema of Ideas section will be published each day on the Design Alive website. Each day we will publish a code that will enable you to watch the film free of charge between 6 p.m. and midnight. If the film is not originally in English – translation will not be provided (only polish subtitles provided).
Cafe Gdynia is our festival café. It was created for people who’d like to talk to other participants of the festival, curators or authors of workshops or lectures. In the café, we’re going to meet and talk via the ZOOM platform. We hope you pop into Gdynia for a chat!
If you want to keep up to speed with what our users have been getting up to, click on the Members tab to see all members of the GDD platform.
Choose the user you want to follow. When you place the mouse over his or her miniature, you’ll get the Follow button.
If you want a user to know you’re mentioning them in your post and comment, you can tag them. The tagged user will get a special message and will notice faster that they’ve been mentioned. Tagging users is really easy. You need to add the @ sign, and in a moment you’ll see a list of GDD platform users. Pick the person(s) you want to tag.
In order to contact other GDD platforms users, you can write them in the chat window. Enter the given user’s profile or find them in the Members tab. After you place the mouse over their profile, you’ll see three vertical dots – three options. When you choose the Say Hello option, a private chat window will open.
If you don’t want to miss any of the content you’re interested in, you have to start following it. If you want to follow specific debate topics, go to the Topics tab and use the follow button to keep up to speed with what’s happening.
If you don’t want to miss any updates, you can also change your notification settings and start receiving information about any activity in your chosen sections. Click on the miniature image of your profile in the upper right corner, go to Your Settings, and then Notifications. Scroll down and adjust the settings to your needs.
In order to see whether someone near your geographical location is using the GDD platform, go to the Members tab and click on the Near You filter.
Activity Feed is where you’re going to see posts, articles, questionnaires and questions added by Gdynia Design Days and other members of the community. All added activities have a specific filter, Topic, which will be visible at the bottom of each entry. If you’re interested in a specific filter, click on it to see other entries marked in the same way.
Specific filters enable us to systematise the actions of all users and ascribe them to specific categories. Your Activity Feed is a stream of information that depends on the decisions you make.
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