Presentation
House of Creatures: Curatorial team at Milan Design Week 2026
21. – 26. apr 2026
Alcova | Milano
The project House of Creatures by the team of Ryan Barriball, Sera Eravci, Urša Gantar, Valentin Tribušon, Gašper Uršič and Vid Žnidaršič was selected through the open call issued by the Centre for Creativity for a curatorial proposal for presentation at Milan Design Week 2026.
The project, submitted by a group of experienced and internationally connected authors, convinced the expert jury with its outstanding concept, recognisability and boldness. The proposal stands out for its original modular exhibition design and sustainable approach.
Curatorial Statement – House of Creatures
What happens to the objects that surround us when we look away?
Do they stretch, misbehave, or whisper to each other?
Do they wait for us to use them, or do they move in rhythms of their own?
House of Creatures brings together ten contemporary Slovenian design objects and imagines them not as products, but as beings. These creatures defy fixed definitions and refuse to be confined to conventional categories of use, discipline, or typology. What matters is not what they are for, but how they exist.
By stretching, bending, and undoing established notions of form and function, each creature unsettles our expectations of use, scale, and identity. They sway, sag, leak, grow, disrupt, and spill beyond their intended spaces. Together, they rethink design as a practice of establishing relations between objects, spaces, bodies, and imaginations.
This is a shared home for them: an intimate habitat where creatures position themselves in relation to one another. Here, they observe, respond, and adapt to one another, forming interactions that bring their home to life. In this home, the creatures are not used, but rather lived alongside. As such, the exhibition does not replicate human modes of living or control. A chair does not sleep. A lamp does not seek comfort. Instead, the space allows creatures to exist on their own terms.
The creatures inhabiting this home emerge from practices by Soft Baroque, Lara Bohinc, Dan Adlešič, and Juicy Marbles, among others. The exhibition seeks to stretch the boundaries of design, bringing together fashion, product design, food development, and other creative practices that treat design as thinking, making, and relating across disciplines, challenging fixed definitions of objects and their use.
Visitors encounter the creatures not as spectators, but as temporary inhabitants moving through a space already occupied. Meaning emerges not through instruction, but through encounter; and the identity of each creature is inseparable from how it is met, lived with, and remembered.
House of Creatures is curated by an international, multidisciplinary team comprising Ryan Barriball, Sera Eravci, Urša Gantar, Valentin Tribušon, Gašper Uršič, and Vid Žnidaršič, who work across research, architecture, graphic design, critical writing and curatorial practice.
Photo: Klemen Ilovar, Ryan Barriball
More about the open call
The exhibition is produced by the Centre for Creativity, which, in collaboration with the selected curatorial group, is developing the final concept of the presentation. Through the open call for the selection of the curatorial group, the Centre encourages the articulation of the field of design curation and creates an opportunity for the development of experimental approaches. The project is part of the internationalisation programmes of the Centre for Creativity.
Ryan Barriball
Ryan Barriball, BA (Hons) MArch Cantab, graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2024. He works at Of Architecture on projects across the UK and South Korea. He previously worked at Christ & Gantenbein in Basel and MVRDV in Rotterdam. Ryan was part of a group nominated for the 24’ Piranesi Honourable Mention Award for the project If Columns Could Talk, which was undertaken at the AA Nanotourism Visiting School. In 2023, he participated in the Porto Academy workshop in Mendrisio with Lütjens Padmanabhan. In 2021, he was a guest critic at the University of Plymouth. Ryan’s work deals with issues of perception and architecture. He explores the experiential possibilities of the architectural object, particularly the way architecture can bring awareness to our bodily presence in real life. Prior to studying architecture, he worked as a groundworker, using heavy machinery and hand tools to transform land.
Sera Eravci
Sera Eravci is a freelance writer and curator working across cultural institutions, galleries, and archives between London and Berlin. Her writing and research practice moves between critical theory, reflective and experimental approaches, and short-form explorations of everyday life. Her work traces overlooked histories, diasporic experiences, and the social contexts through which art, design, and culture are produced and encountered. She has contributed to various curatorial projects and exhibitions, including work with Rath Gallery and Gallery FUMI, and has several years of experience in project management and communications across the arts and culture sector, including in public relations at Bjarke Ingels Group. She is currently undertaking curatorial and critical theory studies at Central Saint Martins in London, and contributes to The Cosmic House, where she supports visitor engagement and assists with archival preservation.
Urša Gantar
Urša Gantar, m.i.a., is an architect from Ljubljana working on a wide range of design-driven projects, with an interest in residential and cultural spaces, as well as interdisciplinary, research-driven approaches. After completing her studies at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Architecture, she began her professional career in Vienna, where she worked on a variety of projects, including the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She later gained valuable experience at Počivašek Petranovič Architects in Ljubljana, primarily working on private and public residential projects of various scales and contributing to several competition-winning proposals. For the past several years, she has lived in Basel, Switzerland, where she most recently worked as an architect at the international firm Christ & Gantenbein, contributing to projects in Zurich and London, while continuing to pursue her broader architectural interests.
Valentin Tribušon
Valentin Tribušon, m.i.a., is an architect from Ljubljana whose work encompasses cultural, residential, urban, and small-scale projects. His background ranges from stage design to architectural practice, with a strong emphasis on conceptual clarity. Since 2018, he has been part of Bevk Perović Arhitekti, leading projects that have gained wider recognition, including the Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired, recipient of the Plečnik Award, as well as several successful competition entries, most notably the refurbishment of the SNG Drama Theatre. He also engages in architectural education as a guest critic at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana.
Gašper Uršič
Gašper Uršič is an interdisciplinary designer from Ljubljana who is currently working as a digital product designer at the international technology company Endress+Hauser in Basel. He is a co-founder of Studio Kruh, a Ljubljana-based studio for meaningful design solutions, where he was active between 2016 and 2023. His work has received numerous national and international awards, including four Brumen Awards, the AICA Zgraf Award 2025, and a Special Mention at the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards. His typeface, “Brick”, was selected as one of the 50 best European student type design projects in the Pangramme: Learning Type Design competition. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at exhibitions in Slovenia, Germany, France, Canada, Croatia, Switzerland, and beyond. He is currently a board member of the Brumen Foundation and serves as a jury member for the student category of the TamTam Plaktivat Sveža kri poster competition.
Vid Žnidaršič
Vid Žnidaršič, m.i.a., MA (Dist.), ARB, is an architect, researcher, and architectural historian. He teaches as a Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge, serves as Studio Master on the Intermediate Programme at the Architectural Association in London, and is Programme Head of the AA Nanotourism Visiting School. He worked as a Senior Architect at BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group in London for over five years, leading the design and construction of various projects in the UK and abroad. Prior to this, he worked at several internationally renowned architectural offices, including Bevk Perović in Ljubljana and Casper Muller Kneer and Farshid Moussavi Architecture in London. In addition to his ongoing critical spatial practice, he is currently pursuing a PhD in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he is constructing a non-aligned history of the Non-Aligned Movement summits as part of his research.
