Opening: 21. november 2024 at 7 PM, Museum of Architecture and Design   Curator: Alexandra Midal Assistant curator: Emma Pflieger   The 28th Biennial of Design (BIO28), which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, will take place between November 21, 2024 and April 6, 2025. It is organized by the Museum of Architecture and Design and the Centre for Creativity, with the curatorial concept developed by professor and curator Alexandra Midal together with Emma Pflieger, assistant curator. This year’s biennial represents an important milestone in sixty years of development in the field of design.   This year’s biennial represents an important milestone in sixty years of development in the field of design.Political, bold, vibrant, and provocative, Double Agent: Do You Speak Flower? examines the figure of floriography, a code hidden within flowers to transmit secret information. The core of this transdisciplinary and multifaceted exhibition scrutinizes the pivotal ...

28. Biennial of Design (BIO28) 21. 11. 2024—6. 4. 2025 Galerija ISIS Slovenska cesta 17, Ljubljana   “Violence was all. The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. Girls were roses, and their seasons were short as the flowers. Plucked they must be before nightfall; for the day was brief and the day was all.” Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928.   In the first edition of his Systema naturae (1735), botanist Carl Linnaeus proposed an eleven-page classification system, divided into three kingdoms: animal, mineral and plant. For the purposes of the last, his observations led him to put together a herbarium, which ultimately contained a stunning nineteen thousand leaves.   With the publication of Fundamenta botanica (1736), Linnaeus established a hyper-sexualised metonymy between female genitalia and flowers, based on his observations of plants’ reproductive organs in ...

28. Biennial of Design: The Denton Project 20. 11. 2024–4. 1. 2025Mala galerija Banke Slovenije   During the Vietnam War, US Admiral Jeremiah A. Denton was taken as a prisoner of war. While in captivity, on May 2nd, 1966, he was interviewed by a Japanese reporter for North-Vietnamese propaganda. He described his situation in prison as “acceptable”, in his own terms. But while he pretended to be blinded by the camera’s strong lights, he winked out a continuous secret message in Morse code that said: “T-O-R-T-U-R-E – T-O-R-T-U-R-E”. The interview that was sold to ABC and broadcast in the USA on 17 May 1966 confirmed that prisoners of war were being tortured in Vietnam. Denton remained in prison until 1973.   This historical event is associated with John Frankenheimer’s 1962 thriller entitled The Manchurian Candidate. The film opens with the capture of a troop of soldiers during the Korean War who, while believing they are attending a ...