When International Style Went Local by Adam Štěch

 

19th century Mushroom Hat from the Ljubljana Ethnographic Museum

Sausage of the Future by Carolien Niebling

 
 

Production Platform team Pjorkkala’s Dodola Filter, 3D printed with mixture of spruce, clay, beech sawdust

A Building with Earth workshop hosted by Krater in a dormant construction site in Ljubljana

 

BIO27 Super Vernaculars – Design for a Regenerative Future, May – October 2022

Jane Withers curated the 27th Biennial of Design, Ljubljana. The theme ‘Super Vernaculars – Design for a Regenerative Future’ explored a growing and ambitious movement that takes inspiration from vernacular intelligence, indigenous architecture, and design traditions to inform innovative responses to 21st century social and environmental challenges.

The exhibition’s four sections aimed to establish a framework for understanding the Super Vernaculars movement. The introductory section was an assemblage of objects and ideas from different cultures and eras that illuminate the dialogue between professional designers and architects, and local traditions and vernaculars in the 20th century. The following three themes explored how designers are using the Super Vernaculars approach to address contemporary challenges: Negotiating Traditions, Reimagining Systems and Infrastructures and Catalysing Communities.

A key part of the Biennial was a production platform for which five Slovenian interdisciplinary teams were commissioned to respond to current challenges such as agriculture, communicating architecture, water pollution, natural construction materials, and regenerative cultural production.

Photography Klemen Ilovar, Urban Cerjak & Zbita Zemlja

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