BIO27 Super Vernaculars explores a promising movement in contemporary design that looks to vernacular traditions and largely non-western cultures as a springboard for fresh 21st-century ideas. Many of the practices in industrialised countries have fuelled the climate catastrophe and if we are to engineer a sustainable revolution, we need to adopt a different mindset and values. Growing interest in TEK – Traditional Ecological Knowledge – is providing a rich seam of inspiration for contemporary designers looking to regenerative systems that live with the earth rather than from it. Super Vernaculars gives a platform to this movement and explores its potential to address regional and global issues at scale and ranks it among contemporary approaches to climate change.

Join us for a guided tour with Blaž Bajič, researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana, as well as a member of the BIO27 Advisory Board.

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