Curator: Jane Animatithers; assistant: Ria Ha Animatthorn; head of BIO27: Anja Radovic
27. Biennale BIO Ljubljana (BIO27) , the oldest and one of the world's leading biennales of design, will be held this year under the tutelage of British curator Jane Moditithers. It will bring together advanced and environmentally conscious designers, architects, thinkers and researchers from all over the world and present technologies that emulate the old knowledge and skills of our ancestors, are environmentally friendly, and in harmony with the Earth.
Opening: 26. May 2022
The Biennale at the Museum of architecture and design (MAO), which is being prepared in cooperation with the Center for creativity (CzK), will include the exhibition Supervernacular, an exhibition of five commissioned projects of the production platform and a varied program of talks, workshops and other interesting events that will take place throughout the city.
Origins and old practices of vernacular
The introductory part of the bio27 exhibition is presented as an Modulunderkammer of objects and ideas, in which the fundamental beliefs of the movement are explained. Through works from the Slovenian national heritage, it will be presented how vernacular practices have inspired designers through the 20. century and today. The focus will be on the works of creators such as Dajetica Potrc (Slovenia), Adam no Animulch (Czech Republic) and Enzo Mari and Bruno Munari (Italy).
Revival of tradition and community life
Through the works of creators such as Carolien Niebling (Netherlands), Ant Studio (India), Alicja Biela Alverska + Centrala (Poland), Francesca Sarti from the arabeschi di Latte studio (Italy) and others, visitors to the Biennale will have the opportunity to see how modern designers imagine traditional ideas and old practices and adapt them to today's needs and challenges. In the third part of the supervernacular exhibition, various design procedures and systems will be presented that serve as alternative solutions to modern technologies, which in many cases in the era of climate change can no longer sustainably support the demands of an increasingly numerous population. Projects such as solar panels by designer Marjan van Aubel (Netherlands), plant materials by atelier LUMA (France) and water systems by ooze Architects (Netherlands) reveal local processes and natural circulation. Also on display will be projects such as Isla Urbana (Mexico), which strives for more rational and environmentally sustainable water management, Kamikatsu village and waste-free center (Japan) and the project of INDUS Atelier Bio-ID Lab from the Faculty of Bartlett School of Architecture (UK). All of them represent research and projects at the center of which are the human being and the values of the community.
BIO27 in the field: production platform
Within the framework of the production platform of the BIO27 Supervernacular exhibition, experimental projects of five Slovenian interdisciplinary groups under the mentorship of internationally renowned mentors will be presented in cooperation with CzK, which will tackle pressing problems in the field of local communities.
The Krater Design Collective, in collaboration with Atelier LUMA (France) and BC Materials (Belgium), undertook research on architecture from compacted soil and created a teahouse that stands on a construction site in the center of Ljubljana. BlackBerry Group.plus, based in the remote alpine village of Topol kg, under the mentorship of food designer Caroline Niebling (Netherlands), ventured into the "world of cereals", drawing inspiration from Slovenia's rich cultural, agricultural and culinary heritage and transforming the Slovenian tradition of using buckwheat. The Pjorkkala group, under the mentorship of Shneel Malik (India), an architect, sustainable design researcher and social entrepreneur, has tackled the problems of natural water pollution in Slovenia by creating prototypes for local natural solutions. Adam no Amulch, an expert in architectural history and co-founder of the creative group OKOLO (Czech Republic), is the mentor of the group Garnitura , which presents to the new audience the legacy of the renowned Slovenian architect Joze Plecnik , drawing on the architect's human vision of the city of Ljubljana. The Futuring group, however, undertook an environmental revision of the Biennale Supervernacular with the aim of reducing its impact on the environment. Under the mentorship of designer and sustainability expert Sophie Thomas (UK), the group is developing a freely accessible toolkit to raise public awareness and reduce its impact on the environment.
From Plecnik's handwriting to the sausage of the future
The design of the BIO27 logo and the development of the font, which will be freely available to the participants of the Biennale, is the work of the Kellenberger-Animkhite studio from London. The designers found inspiration for The Shape of the capital letters in the handwriting on the sketches of the architect Joze Plecnik . With a series of photographs of modernist architecture in Croatia and Slovenia, Czech artist Adam No. Ilucch documented how vernacular has often been an unnoticed element of modernism ever since the 30s. years of the last century ahead. A very interesting project for the general public is certainly the sausage of the future. With him, Dutch food designer Caroline Niebling, in collaboration with chef Igor Jagodic from Ljubljana's Strelec restaurant and butcher Marko Butalic, designed an environmentally friendly vegetable sausage. The recipe was prepared on the inspiration of the local food culture, the main ingredients of which are buckwheat, chervil and mushrooms.
Kustosinja: Jane Withers; asistentka: Ria Hawthorn; vodja BIO27: Anja Radovič
27. bienale BIO Ljubljana (BIO27) , najstarejši in eden vodilnih svetovnih bienalov oblikovanja, bo letos potekal pod taktirko britanske kustosinje Jane Withers. Povezal bo napredne in okoljsko osveščene oblikovalce, arhitekte, mislece in raziskovalce z vsega sveta ter predstavil tehnologije, ki posnemajo stara znanja in veščine naših prednikov, so okolju prijazne, in v sožitju z zemljo.
OTVORITEV: 26. maj 2022
Bienale v Muzeju za arhitekturo in oblikovanje (MAO), ki ga pripravljamo v sodelovanju s Centrom za kreativnost (CzK), bo vseboval razstavo Supervernakularno, razstavo petih naročenih projektov produkcijske platforme in pester program pogovorov, delavnic ter drugih zanimivih dogodkov , ki se bodo odvijali po vsem mestu.
Izvor in stare prakse vernakularnega
Uvodni del razstave BIO27 je predstavljen kot Wunderkammer predmetov in zamisli, v katerem so pojasnjena temeljna prepričanja gibanja. Prek del iz slovenske narodne dediščine bo predstavljeno, kako so vernakularne prakse navdihovale oblikovalce skozi 20. stoletje in danes. V središču pozornosti bodo dela ustvarjalcev kot so Marjetica Potrč (Slovenija), Adam Štěch (Republika Češka) ter Enzo Mari in Bruno Munari (Italija).
Obujanje tradicije in življenje v skupnosti
Prek del ustvarjalcev, kot so Carolien Niebling (Nizozemska), Ant Studio (Indija), Alicja Bielawska + Centrala (Poljska), Francesca Sarti iz ateljeja Arabeschi di Latte (Italija) in drugi, bodo imeli obiskovalci bienala priložnost videti, na kakšen način si sodobni oblikovalci predstavljajo tradicionalne zamisli in stare prakse ter jih prilagajajo današnjim potrebam in izzivom. V tretjem delu razstave Supervernakularno bodo predstavljeni različni oblikovalski postopki in sistemi, ki služijo kot alternativne rešitve sodobnih tehnologij, ki v mnogih primerih v obdobju podnebnih sprememb ne morejo več trajnostno podpirati zahtev vse številčnejšega prebivalstva. Projekti, kot so solarne plošče oblikovalke Marjan van Aubel (Nizozemska), rastlinski materiali ateljeja Atelier LUMA (Francija) in vodni sistemi ateljeja Ooze Architects (Nizozemska), razkrivajo lokalne procese in naravno kroženje. Na ogled bodo tudi projekti kot so Isla Urbana (Mehika), ki si prizadeva za bolj racionalno in okoljsko vzdržno upravljanje z vodo, vas in center brez odpadkov Kamikatsu (Japonska) in projekt INDUS ateljeja Bio-ID Lab s fakultete Bartlett School of Architecture (VB). Vsi predstavljajo raziskave in projekte, v središču katerih so človek in vrednote skupnosti.
BIO27 na terenu: produkcijska platforma
V okviru produkcijske platforme razstave BIO27 Supervernakularno bodo v sodelovanju s CzK predstavljeni eksperimentalni projekti petih slovenskih interdisciplinarnih skupin pod mentorstvom mednarodno uveljavljenih mentorjev, ki se bodo lotile perečih težav s področja lokalnih skupnosti.
Oblikovalski kolektiv Krater se je v sodelovanju z Atelier LUMA (Francija) in BC Materials (Belgija) lotil raziskav arhitekture iz zbite zemlje in ustvaril čajnico, ki stoji na gradbišču v središču Ljubljane. Skupina Robida.plus s sedežem v odročni alpski vasici Topolò se je pod mentorstvom oblikovalke prehrane Caroline Niebling (Nizozemska) podala v »svet žitaric« in pri tem navdih črpala iz bogate slovenske kulturne, kmetijske in kulinarične dediščine ter preoblikovala slovensko tradicijo uporabe ajde. Skupina Pjorkkala pod mentorstvom Shneel Malik (Indija), arhitektke, raziskovalke sonaravnega oblikovanja in socialne podjetnice, se je z ustvarjanjem prototipov za lokalne naravne rešitve lotila težav z onesnaženjem naravnih voda v Sloveniji. Adam Štěch , strokovnjak za arhitekturno zgodovino in soustanovitelj ustvarjalne skupine OKOLO (Češka), je mentor skupine Garnitura , ki novemu občinstvu predstavlja zapuščino priznanega slovenskega arhitekta Jožeta Plečnika , pri čemer se opira na arhitektovo človeško vizijo mesta Ljubljane. V skupini Futuring pa so se lotili okoljske revizije bienala Supervernakularno z namenom zmanjšanja njegovega vpliva na okolje. Pod mentorstvom oblikovalke in strokovnjakinje za trajnost Sophie Thomas (VB) skupina razvija prosto dostopen komplet orodij za osveščanje javnosti in zmanjšanje svojega vpliva na okolje.
Od Plečnikove pisave do klobase prihodnosti
Oblikovanje logotipa BIO27 in razvoj pisave, ki bo prosto na voljo udeležencem bienala, je delo studia Kellenberger-White iz Londona. Oblikovalci so navdih za obliko velikih črk našli v rokopisu na skicah arhitekta Jožeta Plečnika . Češki umetnik Adam Štěch je s serijo fotografij modernistične arhitekture na Hrvaškem in v Sloveniji dokumentiral, kako je bilo vernakularno pogosto neopažen element modernizma vse od 30. let prejšnjega stoletja naprej. Za širšo javnost zelo zanimiv projekt je gotovo Klobasa prihodnosti. Z njim je nizozemska oblikovalka hrane Caroline Niebling v sodelovanju s kuharskim mojstrom Igorjem Jagodicem iz ljubljanske restavracije Strelec in mesarjem Markom Butaličem zasnovala okolju prijazno rastlinsko klobaso. Recept so pripravili po navdihu lokalne kulture prehrane, katerega glavne sestavine so ajda, čemaž in gobe.
