Balkan Design Network
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Open call for regional design competition
YOUNG BALKAN DESIGNERS 2016: NEW ANALOGUE
Please visit: http://projects.balkandesignnetwork.org/ybdopencall2016
Competition theme 2016: ‘New Analogue’
Young Balkan Designers slogan for 2016 – ‘New Analogue’ calls for design projects − products, concepts, services and scenarios that are bringing human touch back into design process and manufacturing, linking them directly to materials, crafts and techniques available in the Balkan culture. We look for ways in which Balkan as a society can activate the value of its own cultural assets and contribute to the global debate on dehumanization of design and production process caused by hyper-efficient models of capitalist industrial and digital production and limiting usability-based approaches to design that tend to neglect other aspects of human factor – people’s personalities, their emotional responses and ideals. We challenge you to think about humanization of the production process, implementation of local manual skills and crafts in contemporary design methodology, with the focus on involvement of your immediate local community in problem-solving process and production, instead of fictional relations offered to us through social networks. In your pursuit to find the right balance between advantages of state of the art technologies available today and the local
expertise in manual work and real-life human exchange, envision your project as the Balkan’s contribution to economic and social sustainability of local communities worldwide, providing personal satisfaction in all phases of the process: creation, production and user experience.
Competition subject and criteria
Socially engaged design concepts; products – furniture, lighting, interior elements,
everyday objects, aid products, shelters, home accessories, fashion garments, stationary; urban services; innovative design and production scenarios, etc. that offer economically and socially sustainable solutions to local problems, both in urban and rural environments.
Criteria appreciated by the Jury: socially engaging and innovative features of the project that enhance the quality of community life; ergonomics; rational production and transportation costs; use of materials available locally; implementation of local knowledge and techniques; environmentally friendly production process, innovative use of recycled materials; significant social impact on your immediate community.
Jury
Konstantin Grcic, KGID, Industrial Designer
Tomislav Knezović, CEO, Prostoria
Zoran Jedrejčić, Industrial Designer
Jelena Matić, Furniture Designer, Professor at the University of Belgrade
Nikola Radeljković, Product Designer, Numen / ForUse
General terms
To be able to participate in the Young Balkan Designers competition, join our community and become a member of Balkan Design Network! Enjoy the benefits of regional design competitions, cooperation and festivals. Sign up to database of designers and design related institutions and organizations. Membership is free of charge: www.balkandesignnetwork.org/members
The competition is open to all members of BDN network aged 35 years and younger, from the following countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey. Applicants may be individuals or groups of creators. Each applicant may submit more than one entry.
Info & Inquiries
ybd@balkandesignnetwork.com
www.balkandesignnetwork.com
Main organizers
Balkan Design Network
Innovative platform established with the aim of articulating and providing longterm strategic support for the development and promotion of the Balkan design on European and International level.
Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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