Vol. 4 May 28-29, 2026 Copenhagen, DK One track, one room

A two-day conference
about making things
that aren't slick.

Fieldnotes is an independent design conference for people who design and build products, websites, and software. Twelve talks, three hundred seats, no sponsor booths, no breakout tracks. We meet in a former municipal pool hall in Nørrebro.

12
Talks
2
Days
300
Seats
0
Sponsor booths
01Programme

Two days. Twelve talks. No filler.

Day One
Thursday, May 28
Doors 08:30 / First talk 09:30
09:30 — 10:15
Hana Lindqvist Det Norske Veritas
Opening keynote. Designing software that has to last forty years. Lessons from maritime safety classification.
Hall A
10:30 — 11:00
Mathieu Roux Independent
When the spec is wrong. Notes on twelve product launches that should have been killed earlier.
Hall A
11:15 — 11:45
Priya Achterberg Vector Atlas
Type at small sizes — the boring details that decide whether your interface is readable on a metro at 23:00.
Hall A
11:45 — 13:00
Lunch break
Open sandwiches from Hostbjerg, in the courtyard. Coffee from Prolog.
Courtyard
13:00 — 13:30
Jonas Wahlström Klarna (alum)
Working in the dark — designing for users you'll never see. From financial services and ATMs.
Hall A
13:45 — 14:15
Adeyemi Okonkwo Studio Tape
Drawing in the browser. A live-coded look at SVG, generative type, and why everyone should learn a little graphics math.
Hall A
14:30 — 15:00
Lila Wynne-Patterson Patterson & Ko
Brand systems that survive contact with reality. Three case studies, three failures, three salvages.
Hall A
15:00 — 15:30
Coffee & pastry
From Andersen & Maillard.
Foyer
15:30 — 16:15
Davide Costaglione Officina dei Tipi
Closing talk, day one. Drawing letters by hand — what fifteen years of custom type teaches you about screen design.
Hall A
18:00 — late
Drinks at Atelier September
Two streets away. Casual. Pay your own.
Off-site
Day Two
Friday, May 29
Doors 09:00 / First talk 09:45
09:45 — 10:30
Yara El-Khoury BBC Sounds
Day two keynote. Slow software — choosing the things you'll deliberately not make faster, and why.
Hall A
10:45 — 11:15
Iben Mølgaard Studio Mølgaard
Designing for institutions — three years inside the Danish tax authority. A talk about constraints.
Hall A
11:30 — 12:00
Sander Beekhuis Voorland
Form follows budget. What a small team does differently from a big one — for better and for worse.
Hall A
12:00 — 13:15
Lunch break
Open sandwiches in the courtyard.
Courtyard
13:15 — 14:00
Closing — Hana Lindqvist & speakers
A roundtable. Audience questions, picked from cards collected during lunch.
Hall A
14:00
Goodbye
That's it. Walk to the lakes. Tag your pictures if you want — #fieldnotes26.
02Speakers

Twelve people we asked, who said yes.

Hana Lindqvist
Det Norske Veritas · Oslo
Opening keynote. Designing software that has to last forty years.
Mathieu Roux
Independent · Lyon
When the spec is wrong — twelve launches that should have been killed earlier.
Priya Achterberg
Vector Atlas · Amsterdam
Type at small sizes — the details that decide readability.
Jonas Wahlström
Klarna (alum) · Stockholm
Working in the dark — designing for users you'll never see.
Adeyemi Okonkwo
Studio Tape · London
Drawing in the browser — SVG, generative type, graphics math.
Lila Wynne-Patterson
Patterson & Ko · Toronto
Brand systems that survive contact with reality.
Davide Costaglione
Officina dei Tipi · Milan
Drawing letters by hand — fifteen years of custom type.
Yara El-Khoury
BBC Sounds · London
Day two keynote. Slow software — choosing what not to optimize.
Iben Mølgaard
Studio Mølgaard · Aarhus
Designing for institutions — three years inside the tax authority.

A former municipal pool hall in Nørrebro.

Dans Hus is a 1924 brick building that was the city's public bathhouse until 1976, and a contemporary dance venue ever since. The main hall — where the pool used to be — has 380 seats, vaulted ceilings, and acoustics that don't need amplifying.

There is exactly one room. There are no breakout tracks. You'll see the same talks as everyone else, and probably end up talking to a few of them afterwards.

DANS HUS
Nørre Allé 7
2200 København N
DK

Metro: Nørrebro st. — 6 min walk
Bicycle parking: ample

Tickets. Three kinds.

Early bird — Sold out
€280
Released in January. Gone in eleven days.
  • Both days
  • Lunch & coffee
  • Drinks Thursday
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General admission
€420
The standard ticket. Most people are in this bucket.
  • Both days, both keynotes
  • Lunch & coffee (Hostbjerg / Andersen & Maillard)
  • Thursday drinks at Atelier September
  • Printed conference notebook
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Student / educator
€180
Verified with your institutional email.
  • Both days, both keynotes
  • Lunch & coffee
  • Limited to 40 tickets
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