Studio Kellenberger–White were commissioned to create the logo and a font for BIO27. The upper-case font is inspired by the hand-drawn lettering architect Jože Plečnik uses to label his drawings. The typeface is purposefully lightweight to reduce ink and energy use. The font can be freely downloaded from BIO27 website during the duration of the biennial.
Programme:
11.00 Introduction Nejc Avbelj, assistant director of MAO
Dragan Barbutovski, British Council Slovenia
Jane Withers, BIO27
11.10 What is the state of sustainable cultural production?
The first session will include a snapshot of international best practice in sustainable cultural production and learnings from BIO27.
Moderator: Sophie Thomas
With: Graciela Melitsko Thornton, Julie’s Bicycle, Jana Babšek & Alenka Černelič Krošelj, ICOM, Anja Radović, BIO27
11.45 The BIO27 Futuring Toolkit
Chaired by BIO27 mentor, designer and sustainability consultant, Sophie Thomas, production platform team Futuring launch their open-source toolkit which aims to empower cultural institutions and designers in reducing the impact of their work. A Q&A opens the floor to the audience to ask quick-fire questions about designers’ dilemmas in low-impact production.
With: Barbara Predan, Žan Kobal, Tamara Lasić Jurkovič (Futuring)
12.20 Designing Super Vernaculars A conversation with the BIO27 design teams discussing what they have learnt while designing Super Vernaculars and the challenges they had to overcome as well as the opportunities when taking a low-impact approach.
Moderator: Jane Withers
With: Sebastian White & Eva Kellenberger, design studio Kellenberger & White, Rok Žnidaršič, Medprostor, Aljaž Vesel & Gašper Uršič, design studio Studio Kruh + AA
Despite the ecological renaissance, which placed sustainability at the center of public ethics, it seems that today’s administrative frameworks in Slovenia still limit the spread of regenerative material cultures. The Krater collective, as one of the groups of the production platform BIO27, in cooperation with the studios Atelier LUMA and BC Architects, researched architecture from rammed earth and locally obtained building materials. Materials such as loam, wood or straw bales are imported and therefore too expensive for most, or their use in construction is illegal. Under current legislation, it seems that local ‘material’ landscapes are treated as forbidden vernaculars.
In response to the current environmental crisis, an interdisciplinary group of designers, architects, ecologists, permaculturists and journalists united in Krater poses an important question: Could the abandoned construction pit, which they revived as a collective, become a landscape forum where they would discuss the accessibility of locally obtained materials in Slovenia?
Futuring’s utilising the BIO27 to interrogate its practices and future; to observe, source, and examine the existing sustainable practices in cultural production. Our findings are collected in an open-source toolkit. Moreover, we offer selected perspectives on sustainability (via audio guide, AR visualisations and infographics). The findings will enable cultural institutions, designers (and individuals) to reduce the environmental impact of their work.
Museums play a dual and indispensable role in society. They safeguard our future generations’ engagement in cultural heritage. At the same time, they are actors themselves, places that contribute to a socially, ecologically, and culturally conscious society by incorporating the future of our life worlds.
This brochure was launched under the programme DESIGN DINING: Slovenian Tableware Design, which was carried out by the Museum of Architecture and Design and the Centre for Creativity under the auspices of EU Distributed Design Market Platform. We have selected 0 designers who received financial incentives to design and produce a new product, to be used as a table setting. The selected tableware series was presented at pop-up dinners and exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad.
After last year’s talks with architectural practices, the New Praxis, New Tools project continues with an exhibition that will be on display at the Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana from 24 February to 31 March. We present the architectural practices of a2o2 architects, Architects Počivašek Petranovič, Elementarna, Emil Jurcan, Mertelj Vrabič Architects, Pazi! Park, Prostorož, svet vmes, Some Place Studio and Vidic Grohar architects chosen by curators Mika Cimolini and Matevž Čelik.
A catalogue was published for the exhibition, featuring texts by French architect and professor at the Versailles School of Architecture Radim Louda, architectural historian and professor at the Politecnico di Milano Luka Skansi, art historian and curator of the Škuc Gallery Tia Čiček, architect and curator of architecture at MAO Maja Vardjan, architectural publicist and critic Matevž Čelik, director of MAO Bogo Zupančič and architect and program manager of CzK Mika Cimolini, who also edited the catalogue.
The exhibition presents 90 products by Slovenian designers, a joint project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, the Center for Creativity, which operates within the Museum of Architecture and Design, Slovenian diplomatic missions, Slovenian cultural and information centers and other partners.
The creative barometer represents a new way of measuring the creativity of the 19 Southeast European countries. It is based on the humanistic conception of creativity – he understands creativity as the mental ability of an individual to create something new and original that is recognized in the community as valuable regardless of economic potential
Creative Barometer was developed by Zavod Big in cooperation with the Center for Creativity, at the Museum of Architecture and Design.
This project is a part of a partnership network Platform Center for Creativity co-financed by European Union from European Regional Development Fund and by the Republic of Slovenia.
DUTCH DESIGN WEEK, 16.-24. okt 2021
The exhibition of Slovenian design The Future of Living was hosted from 16 to 24 October in Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week at the central location of Design Week, Microlab.
Curators
Mika Cimolini, Head of Programme of the Centre for Creativity
Zala Košnik
Exhibition design
Kabinet 01
Exhibition layout
Zala Košnik
Graphic design
Studio Kruh
Social media
Zavod Neuropolis
Director of the Museum of Architecture and Design
Bogo Zupančič
Head of the Centre for Creativity
Anja Zorko
Centre for Creativity team
Maja Kovačič, Urška Krivograd, Marko Podjavoršek, Bojan Ažman, Blaž Šenica in Hana Vardjan.
Each project featured in Tunnel 29 was selected from an open call that invited designers to imagine a dark future where the natural environment has been destroyed but life continues in a controlled, artificial environment. The responses range from DIY furniture made of recycled plastics, objects made from invasive species of plant and salvaged scrap metal. It asks its viewers to reflect on the question: “How are the efforts to tackle such a reality reflected in the design of the future?”
Creativity is the driving force behind the economy at both national and regional levels, and it makes sense for countries and their institutions to profit from the rich potential of their creative sectors. Due to the growing understanding of this fact, there has been a need to develop a tool to measure creativity: the creative barometer is a tool that measures creativity of a certain geographical area.
The creative barometer was developed by the Big Institute in cooperation with the Center for Creativity at the Museum of Architecture and Design.
The recently published English edition of the Competence Centre for Design Management – KCDM with the title “Designing Advantages, Building Trust and Changing Culture” explores how Slovenian organizations put design management into focus.
Seven Slovenian companies share their experience on how integrating design into business processes and implementing design management has changed their mindset, innovation potential, problem solving, and market behaviour.
The book was edited by Miha Klinar and Mojca Mihailovič Škrinjar and includes original contributions by renowned international experts Brigitte Borja de Mozota, Frans Joziasse, Darragh Murphy, Metka Hrovat, Lynne Elvins, and Matevž Čelik. The book was funded by the Center for Creativity and the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology. Design Anja Delbello and Aljaž Vesel.
The October issue of Creative Accelerator workshops was hosted by Christina Forster from Heartbeats Innovation & Communication, who presented the basics of content marketing for the creative sector in two parts. Each workshop was followed by a presentation of good practices in the field of ceramics by designers in Slovenia. Second designer, who presented her work, was Vera Stanković.
With the constant growth of the digital world, reaching and communicating with target groups is becoming more and more demanding for companies, organizations, entrepreneurs and creators. This is nothing uncommon, as we are all saturated with new messages: according to the latest statistics, we receive a total of up to 10,000 messages from various brands, online and otherwise, over the course of a single day. As a result, individual brands find it difficult to get the attention of the people they are targeting.
At this point, content marketing comes into play, as it allows us to reach the right people with the right message at the right time on the right channel(s). Not only that, content marketing can greatly contribute to the growth and spread of values of a particular brand, as well as to achieving set goals and allowing the customer to establish a connection with the brand online, which is hugely essential in the current situation.
Excercise templates #1 are available here.
The October issue of Creative Accelerator workshops was hosted by Christina Forster from Heartbeats Innovation & Communication, who presented the basics of content marketing for the creative sector in two parts. Each workshop was followed by a presentation of good practices in the field of ceramics by designers in Slovenia. First designer, who presented her work, was Hana Karim.
With the constant growth of the digital world, reaching and communicating with target groups is becoming more and more demanding for companies, organizations, entrepreneurs and creators. This is nothing uncommon, as we are all saturated with new messages: according to the latest statistics, we receive a total of up to 10,000 messages from various brands, online and otherwise, over the course of a single day. As a result, individual brands find it difficult to get the attention of the people they are targeting.
At this point, content marketing comes into play, as it allows us to reach the right people with the right message at the right time on the right channel(s). Not only that, content marketing can greatly contribute to the growth and spread of values of a particular brand, as well as to achieving set goals and allowing the customer to establish a connection with the brand online, which is hugely essential in the current situation.
Excercise templates #1 are available here.
In the May edition of the Creative Accelerator, we were discussing the importance of finding your voice as creative in company and thus contributing to business success, and how to clearly translate one’s creativity into entrepreneurial value.
At the lecture we:
The lecture intended for all those participating in the CCS, was given by Natalie Nixon, Creativity Strategist and director of Figure 8 Thinking, company specialising in innovative thinking and design of business management. We encourage you to read an excerpt from her book The Creativity Leap, available on her website.
We prepared the lecture in cooperation with Tovarna podjemov and Podim DX 2020.
The extent and potential of the cultural and creative sector in Slovenia
We at the Centre for Creativity are well aware of the size, importance and quality of the field in which we are working. So we’ve prepared the most comprehensive statistical analysis of the cultural and creative sector (CCS) in Slovenia, in cooperation with the Institute for Economic Research (IER). Based on the evaluation and working together with Dr Barbara Predan, we’ve prepared a brochure – The Cultural Creative Imperative – which presents a comprehensive overview of key findings and an interpretation of their significance for the sector.
The brochure includes summaries, key findings and an interpretation of the results from the document Statistical Analysis of the Cultural and Creative Sector in Slovenia 2008–2017 by Nika Murovec, Damjan Kavaš and Tjaša Bartolj from the Institute for Economic Research (IER), commissioned by the Centre for Economic Research.
Fashion System Conference: Day 2, Friday, 25.10. 2019, MAO
Third panel: LOCAL vs. GLOBAL RECOGNITION
Topics: Most recognizable Slovenian fashion designers present their career path or development of their brands.
Moderator: Aleš Čakš
Lecturer: Andrej Skok | Editor-in-Large in Vandals, Pariz
Fashion System Conference: Day 2, Friday, 25.10. 2019, MAO
Second panel: Local practices, moderated by: Nada Vodušek
Topics: online platforms, traditional and digital media, stylists, blogs and influencers.
Lecturer: Gili Biegun | Joys Magazine, Florence
Fashion System Conference: Day 2, Friday, 25.10. 2019, MAO
Second panel: Local practices, moderated by: Nada Vodušek
Topics: online platforms, traditional and digital media, stylists, blogs and influencers.
Lecturer: Myra Postolache | Sport & Street Collezioni, Milano
Fashion System Conference: Day 2, Friday, 25.10. 2019, MAO
Second panel: Local practices, moderated by: Nada Vodušek
Topics: online platforms, traditional and digital media, stylists, blogs and influencers.
Lecturer: Katrina Ryback | STUDIO 183, Berlin
Fashion System Conference: Day 1, Thursday, 24.10. 2019, MAO
Third panel: Manufacturing
Topics: Product planning and development from purchasing materials to fabrication and store sales.
Moderator: Petra Zorec
Predavateljica: Alenka Marsh | Alenka Marsh Design, London/Milano
Fashion System Conference: Day 1, Thursday, 24.10. 2019, MAO
Second panel: Internationalization
Topics: How to launch your products on the international market: competitions, fashion weeks, fairs, agencies, shops or the Internet?
Lecturer: Jenny Peng | Prada, New York
Two Slovenian brands, Smet Umet and Moi Style, presented their business development paths at the second training as part of the Creative Accelerator: Business Opportunities for Small Manufacturers, which was aimed at acquiring business skills for creatives. The event was held in English.
