Workshop "How to find a mentor" for Young Balkan Designers

FUTURE OF BALKAN DESIGN NETWORK, Mikser festival, June 7–8, 2016
Organized by: Croatian Designers Association, Mikser, Public Room Skopje

Two-days conference of Balkan Design Network titled FUTURE OF BALKAN DESIGN NETWORK will be held from 7-8th of June in Mikser House, prior to Mikser Festival. The conference will gather relevant experts from design area, representatives of organisations and institutions that will talk about the future of Balkan design and BDN platform.

The conference is part of the project Balkan Design Network that is co-founded by European Union programme Creative Europe.

Program is supported by:
European Union programme Creative Europe
Ministry of culture, Croatia
Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs, Croatia
Ministry of culture and information, Serbia
Ministry of culture, Macedonia

Join Young Balkan Designers 2016!

Current selection of the works by Young Balkan Designers will be internationally presented as one of the winners of the Pure Talents Contest at the prestigious International Furniture Fair in Cologne, Germany from 18-24 January, 2016.

"Young Balkan Designers 2016: New Analogue" called 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.
Selection of 15 projects designed by artists from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey will be presented at the festivals and exhibitions in the region.

Balkan Design Network announced the winners of the YBD travelling exhibition touring from the selection of the first round of the competition "Young Balkan Designers 2016: New Analogue" which called for design products 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. Through the competition designers explored 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.

8th Mikser festival: Sensitive Society, June 8-12, 2016, Belgrade, Serbia
YOUNG BALKAN DESIGNERS 2016: NEW ANALOGUE
exhibition opening and award ceremony

The intention of this publication is both to raise the questions about the state of current design practices from a designer’s point of view, but also to give practical insights to companies on how to begin to collaborate more closely with designers.