[spectre] Open call for regional design competition: YOUNG BALKAN DESIGNERS 2016: NEW ANALOGUE

[Snezana Curuvija]

Balkan Design Network
Innovative platform for the
development of Balkan Design
www.balkandesignnetwork.com

*Open call for regional design competition*

*YOUNG BALKAN DESIGNERS 2016: NEW ANALOGUEPlease
visit: http://projects.balkandesignnetwork.org/ybdopencall2016
<http://projects.balkandesignnetwork.org/ybdopencall2016>*

*Competition theme 2016: ‘New Analogue’*
Young Balkan Designers slogan for 2016 – ‘New Analogue’ calls 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. We look for 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. We challenge you to think about humanization of the production
process, implementation of local manual skills and crafts in contemporary
design methodology, with the focus on involvement of your immediate local
community in problem-solving process and production, instead of fictional
relations offered to us through social networks. In your pursuit to find
the right balance between advantages of state of the art technologies
available today and the local
expertise in manual work and real-life human exchange, envision your
project as the Balkan’s contribution to economic and social sustainability
of local communities worldwide, providing personal satisfaction in all
phases of the process: creation, production and user experience.

*Competition subject and criteria*
Socially engaged design concepts; products – furniture, lighting, interior
elements,
everyday objects, aid products, shelters, home accessories, fashion
garments, stationary; urban services; innovative design and production
scenarios, etc. that offer economically and socially sustainable solutions
to local problems, both in urban and rural environments.
Criteria appreciated by the Jury: socially engaging and innovative features
of the project that enhance the quality of community life; ergonomics;
rational production and transportation costs; use of materials available
locally; implementation of local knowledge and techniques; environmentally
friendly production process, innovative use of recycled materials;
significant social impact on your immediate community.

*Jury*
Konstantin Grcic, KGID, Industrial Designer
Tomislav Knezović, CEO, Prostoria
Zoran Jedrejčić, Industrial Designer
Jelena Matić, Furniture Designer, Professor at the University of Belgrade
Nikola Radeljković, Product Designer, Numen / ForUse

*General terms*
To be able to participate in the Young Balkan Designers competition, join
our community and become a member of Balkan Design Network! Enjoy the
benefits of regional design competitions, cooperation and festivals. Sign
up to database of designers and design related institutions and
organizations. Membership is free of charge:
www.balkandesignnetwork.org/members
The competition is open to all members of BDN network aged 35 years and
younger, from the following countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro,
Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey. Applicants may be individuals or
groups of creators. Each applicant may submit more than one entry.

*Info & Inquiries*
ybd at balkandesignnetwork.com
www.balkandesignnetwork.com

*Main organizers*
Balkan Design Network
Innovative platform established with the aim of articulating and providing
longterm strategic support for the development and promotion of the Balkan
design on European and International level.

Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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