At Design Week in Milan this year, we present innovative products from Slovenian designers who are abandoning established, often harmful social habits. With the products on display at this exhibition, designers express criticism of existing economic and social systems and offer a different perspective on series production. They bring new uses, new functionality and materiality, and care for a healthy environment and society. They have in common the disclosure of the background of the creation of the product and the desire to connect humanity into the community through good design. They emphasize the value of the fusion of digital and manual work, with the latter serving as a tool for psychosocial empowerment of the individual.
During Milan Design Week, our exhibition will be part of the TORTONA ROCKS venue at 31 Via Tortona. We will present a selection of twenty-two products that have received the “Made in Slovenia”label of excellence. On the basis of an open call for cooperation , the projects were selected by an expert committee: designer Luka Stepan, service designer Ana K Amactra Beks , architect and designer Primoz Dam, curator of architecture and design Maja Vardjan, and architect and program manager at CzK Mika Cimolini .
The exhibition is organized in cooperation between the Centre for creativity/MAO and the Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia in Milan.
For the designers we represent, it's important to look for ways to reconnect society into a community, distract it from screens, and encourage socializing. They convey that design – after being separated by Pandemic, discrimination, racisms and nationalisms, distrust of state institutions, economic displacement and climate change – can reconnect us.
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Opening event
Talk BIO27: what is Supervernacular?
8. June 2022 at 16h
OPIFICIO 31-Via Tortona 31, Milan
Join us for a discussion on BIO27 Super vernacular-an ambitious movement that draws inspiration from vernacular design to create imaginative answers to contemporary challenges. Bio27 curator Jane Animatithers , Marco Sammicheli , Anniina Koivu and Gaja Mezhnari is participating . The conversation will be hosted by Jan Boelen , director of LUMA Atelier.
Participating designers and brands: ADDID PLUS, FOLDS, BRINA STEBLOVNIK, DARJA Malesic, Primoz TURNSEK, ROK OBLAK, KRATER, KRONOTERM, GIGODESIGN, AJDA BERTOK, REMIGO, MATEJ Stefanac, RAKETA, PIKKA, lucka BERLOT, MANCGI G MANCB, LUKA RUGELJ, GUIANADESIGN, MIHA ARTNAK, SR Mancan PRODANOVI/, studio people, NINA MRSNIK, IVANA Blaz, NIKOLAJ SALAJ, KOBEIAGI KILIMS, oloop, studio prapra, Sara BADOVINAC, Peter Zabret, Marusa MAZEJ, DESNAHEMISPHERA, Niko King & Wood Festival, Sadar + Vuga, PRIMOZJEZASTUDIO.
Na tednu oblikovanja v Milanu letos predstavljamo inovativne izdelke slovenskih oblikovalcev, ki opuščajo ustaljene, pogosto škodljive družbene navade. Z izdelki, ki so na ogled na tej razstavi, oblikovalci izražajo kritiko obstoječih ekonomskih in družbenih sistemov ter ponujajo drugačen pogled na serijsko izdelavo. Prinašajo nove načine uporabe, novo funkcionalnost in materialnost ter skrb za zdravo okolje in družbo. Skupna sta jim razkrivanje ozadja nastanka izdelka in želja po povezovanju človeštva v skupnost s pomočjo dobrega oblikovanja. Poudarjajo vrednost spoja digitalnega in ročnega dela, pri čemer slednje služi kot orodje za psihosocialno opolnomočenje posameznika.
Med milanskim tednom oblikovanja bo naša razstava del prizorišča TORTONA ROCKS na ulici Via Tortona 31. Predstavili bomo izbor dvaindvajsetih izdelkov, ki so prejeli znak odličnosti “Made in Slovenia”. Projekte je na podlagi odprtega razpisa za sodelovanje izbrala strokovna komisija: oblikovalec Luka Stepan , oblikovalka storitev Ana Kyra Bekš, arhitekt in oblikovalec Primož Jeza , kustosinja za arhitekturo in oblikovanje Maja Vardjan ter arhitektka in vodja programa pri CzK Mika Cimolini .
Razstava je organizirana v sodelovanju med Centrom za kreativnost/MAO in Generalnim konzulatom Republike Slovenije v Milanu.
Za oblikovalce, ki jih predstavljamo, je pomembno iskati načine, kako družbo ponovno povezati v skupnost, jo odvrniti od zaslonov in spodbujati druženje. Sporočajo, da nas lahko oblikovanje – potem ko so nas ločili pandemija, diskriminacija, rasizmi in nacionalizmi, nezaupanje v državne institucije, ekonomsko razseljevanje in podnebne spremembe – ponovno poveže.
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Pogovor BIO27: Kaj je Supervernakularno?
8. junij 2022 ob 16h
OPIFICIO 31 – Via Tortona 31, Milano
Pridružite se nam na pogovoru, ki bo obravnaval temo BIO27 Super Vernakularno – ambiciozno gibanje, ki črpa navdih iz vernakularnega oblikovanja za ustvarjanje domiselnih odgovorov na sodobne izzive. Sodelujejo kustosinja BIO27 Jane Withers , Marco Sammicheli , Anniina Koivu in Gaja Mežnarić Osole . Pogovor bo vodil Jan Boelen , direktor Ateljeja LUMA.
Sodelujoči oblikovalci in blagovne znamke: ADDID PLUS, FOLDS, BRINA STEBLOVNIK, DARJA MALEŠIČ, PRIMOŽ TURNŠEK, ROK OBLAK, KRATER, KRONOTERM, GIGODESIGN, AJDA BERTOK, REMIGO, MATEJ ŠTEFANAC, RAKETA, PIKKA, LUČKA BERLOT, ÁGI GÖB, LUKA RUGELJ, GUIANADESIGN, MIHA ARTNAK, SRĐAN PRODANOVIĆ, STUDIO LJUDJE, NINA MRŠNIK, IVANA BLAŽ, NIKOLAJ SALAJ, KOBEIAGI KILIMS, OLOOP, STUDIO PRAPRA, SARA BADOVINAC, PETER ZABRET, MARUŠA MAZEJ, DESNAHEMISFERA, NIKO KRALJ & FESTIVAL LESA, SADAR + VUGA, PRIMOZJEZASTUDIO.
