exhibition
Crafting Futures
13 Dec 2023–10 Mar 2024
MAO
EXHIBITION OPENING: WEDNESDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2023 AT 19:00
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Centre for Creativity has launched the second open call for co-productions of limited-edition series as part of the Distributed Design platform. Under the call Connecting Contemporary Design, Craft and Trades, 10 works by Slovenian creators were selected to receive financial incentive and mentoring in order to design a new product or visibly enhance an existing one for the purpose of presentation at the interinstitutional exhibition Triennial of Handicrafts and the Crafting Futures exhibition.
The selected products represent an intersection of adaptations of handcrafting symbolisms and techniques with conceptual and social approaches. Handcrafting techniques hold values and worth for contemporary creators, contrasting with generic products of serial industrial production by achieving high quality and traceable production origins. One crucial characteristic of products based on handcrafting techniques is their materiality which is most often associated with ecological concerns. These creators, critical of exploitative resource extraction models, propose processes based on locally sourced materials and their sustainable cycles.
The exhibited products address the current theme of connecting contemporary design production with the rich cultural crafts and trades heritage as a source of inspiration and ideas for modern, innovative, sustainable, and local production based on natural materials, traditional knowledge, and skills. The exhibition aims to highlight the adaptable potential of crafts and trades and their relevance for today’s changing social and environmental situations, thereby contributing to their understanding in the context of the 21st-century time and society.
Partners of the Handicraft Triennial project: Carinthian Regional Museum, Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, Museum of Architecture and Design, Centre for Creativity, Carinthian Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec Business Centre, Rog Centre