{"id":17085,"date":"2019-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bma-event.net\/mao\/maopage\/six-projects-commissioned-for-bio-26\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:19:39","slug":"six-projects-commissioned-for-bio-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/six-projects-commissioned-for-bio-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Six projects commissioned for BIO 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The 26th Biennial of Design, BIO 26 \u2013 Common Knowledge, curated by Austrian design curator and cultural producer Thomas Geisler together with assistant curator Aline Lara Rezende, is taking on one of the greatest challenges of our time: information.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the Biennial of Design we are commissioning six projects. The projects were selected through a designathon process\u2014a three-day intensive, hands-on, sprint event in which curious and motivated people, non-designers and designers alike, collaborated on design challenges.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Seventy-eight participants selected through the BIO 26 open call engaged in the second round of selection at Designathon #1, which took place in May in Ljubljana. Nominated in eighteen teams, they had the opportunity to work with prominent designers and knowledge mentors from six different partnering institutions of knowledge production and knowledge transmission in Ljubljana\u2014a library, museum, university, retirement home, botanical garden, and newspaper\u2014to create innovative solutions for the challenges proposed in the designathon.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>An international jury of prominent experts selected the best projects by institution to progress to the next phase:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Library<\/div>\n<div>Group challenge: How can knowledge exchange between the National Library and external sites open access and add new value to the collection?<\/div>\n<div>Participants: Thomas H\u00fcgin, Maja Kolar, Yuxi Liu, Alicia Lu Lin, Motong Yang, group manager \u0160pela Pavli Perko<\/div>\n<div>Design mentors: Commonplace Studio<\/div>\n<div>Knowledge mentors: \u017diga Cerkvenik, Irena Eiselt, Janko Klasinc<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2. Museum<\/div>\n<div>Group challenge: How can visitors reconnect with the essential physicality of dance at the Temporary Slovene Dance Archive at MSUM?<\/div>\n<div>Participants: Cyrus Clarke, Juliana Lewis, Monika Seyfried,\u00a0 group manager Matev\u017e Straus<\/div>\n<div>Design mentor: Paolo Patelli<\/div>\n<div>Knowledge mentor: Ida Hir\u0161enfelder<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3. University<\/div>\n<div>Group challenge: Can a new knowledge production program stimulate exchange between faculties and civic actors to negotiate hierarchies and to give value to the everyday life of students and professors?<\/div>\n<div>Participants: Gen\u021biana Dumitra\u0219cu, Adrian Judt, Simon Platzgummer, Andreja Poga\u010dar, group manager Janja \u0160torgelj<\/div>\n<div>Design mentor: Apolonija \u0160u\u0161ter\u0161i\u010d<\/div>\n<div>Knowledge mentor: Toma\u017e De\u017eelan<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4. Retirement Home<\/div>\n<div>Group challenge: How to rethink retirement<\/div>\n<div>Participants: Guendalina Ballerini, Rebecca Carrai, Emilia Izquierdo, Natalia Skoczylas,\u00a0 group manager Barbara Peterca<\/div>\n<div>Design mentor: Kathrina Dankl<\/div>\n<div>Knowledge mentors: Monika \u0160parl, Matija Pu\u0161kari\u010d, Monika Vrhovnik Hribar<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5. Botanical Garden<\/div>\n<div>Group challenge: How to create a living seed bank<\/div>\n<div>Participants: Eliza Chojnacka, Kamila Kantek, Gabriela Szalanska, group manager Ale\u0161 Kobe<\/div>\n<div>Design mentors: Futurefarmers<\/div>\n<div>Knowledge mentors: Jo\u017ee Bavcon, Blanka Ravnjak<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>6. Newspaper: Group 3<\/div>\n<div>Group challenge: How to use news archives as a new stakeholder in the media landscape to re-value news institutions<\/div>\n<div>Participants: Maxime Benvenuto, Petra Mati\u0107, Aneta Pawlik, Jos\u00e9 P\u00e9rez, Zuzanna Zgierska, group manager Jurka Mihelin<\/div>\n<div>Design mentors: Bureau d\u2019\u00e9tudes<\/div>\n<div>Knowledge mentor: Ali \u017derdin<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The six winning teams listed above will participate in a second designathon\u2014prototype to product\u2014taking place from July 12th to 14th in Ljubljana. Their projects will receive funds to be developed further into validated prototypes, installations, services, or systems to be exhibited during the biennial.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From November 14th, 2019 to February 9th, 2020 in Ljubljana, the 26th Biennial of Design, BIO 26 \u2013 Common Knowledge, will present the outcomes of the exploratory work of the winning teams.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIO 26 is taking on one of the greatest challenges of our time: information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21492,"href":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085\/revisions\/21492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mao.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}