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BIO27 Super Vernaculars
Global expansion and rampant capitalism at the expense of the planet has precipitated the climate catastrophe and accelerated the massive imbalance between humanity and the natural world. Super Vernaculars, the theme for BIO27, explores a growing and ambitious movement that takes inspiration from vernacular design traditions and practices from around the world to shape a radical vision for a more responsive and resilient future.
BIO27 PRODUCTION PLATFORM
BIO is one of the world’s longest-running design biennials, originally set-up to showcase the best industrial design practices in Slovenia and the former Yugoslavia. With the shift of socio-political geographies in the 1990s and 2000s, an urgent need to rethink the position of BIO became evident. Design was no longer about beautiful objects, but rather about experimentation, knowledge creation, exchange of expertise and the development of creative design processes that offered solutions to the pressing issues of the time. In 2012, BIO was transformed from a national showcase of the best industrial design into a forum for experimentation that included a Production Platform. Since then, BIO has hosted hundreds of multidisciplinary designers from around the world, enabled many multifaceted collaborations and achieved recognition far beyond early expectations. Today, BIO is adapting again. In response to epic environmental and health crises, curator Jane Withers has set the topic of Super Vernaculars, positioning BIO as a tool to explore a growing and ambitious movement that takes inspiration from vernacular architecture and design around the world to create imaginative responses to contemporary challenges such as water scarcity, waste and declining biodiversity. BIO27 Super Vernaculars – Design for a Regenerative Future mobilises the biennial's resources to help build a resilient local design ecosystem. BIO27 features five interdisciplinary design teams working with local and international mentors to tackle compelling problems of local communities and the environment. Each brief was carefully designed to have an enduring impact; the teams were selected following an open call and invited to take over the brief set by the curatorial team, adopting it as their own and developing it further to enable them to become relevant actors advocating for lasting positive change. PROJECTS Regenerative Cultural Production, Team Futuring Communicating Modern Architecture, Team Garnitura Forbidden Vernaculars, Team Krater Water – Designing a Biovernacular, Team Pjorkkala Grains for Brains, Team Robida.plus Curators: Jane Withers Studion
Head of BIO: Anja Radović Head of Production Platform: Milan Dinevski Communications: Ana Kuntarič Brodersen Exhibition Design: Medprostor Graphic Design: Studion Kruh and AA The 27th Biennial of Design, Ljubljana, BIO27 Super Vernaculars – Design for a Regenerative Future is organized by the Museum of Architecture and Design MAO in cooperation with the Centre for Creativity (CzK). MAO Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana 2022 |
