In the week from Friday 20 to Sunday 29 September, we kindly invite you to visit Austria’s leading design festival, Vienna Design Week. This year, the festival will take place in Village im Dritten, an urban development project in the heart of Vienna’s Landstraße district. The festival will also host the Crafting Futures exhibiton, presented by the Center for Creativity.

The exhibition at hand is the result of an open call for co-productions of limited-edition series organised by the Centre for Creativity as part of the Distributed Design platform in 2023. Under the call Connecting Contemporary Design, Craft and Trades, 10 works by Slovenian creators were selected to receive a financial incentive and mentoring to design a new product or visibly improve an existing one for the purpose of presentation at the interinstitutional exhibition Triennial of Handicrafts and the Crafting Futures exhibition.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an opening social event with the featured creatives on Saturday, 21  September, and a panel discussion with both the creatives and international experts in the field of design  and art. The panel will explore the integration of traditional crafts and trades techniques with contemporary  design approaches, raising and analysing issues such as the role of cultural institutions, sustainability, ecology,  heritage and the impact of globalisation.

Participating creators: Rok Oblak I Luka Pleskovič I Darja Malešič I Maruša Mazej I Pjorkkala I Andraž Rudi Vrhovšek I Lucija Perko I Lara Baler I Boris Ouček I Nina Vastl Štefe I Luka Bernik I Črt Štrubelj

Don’t miss the opportunity to view Centre for Creativity’s nominees, presented within the Distributed Design Platform Exhibition, the Pjorkkala group, Krater Collective and Darja Malešič, as well as another Slovenian presentation by Design Corner Ljubljana, VODA exhibition.