OPEN CALL
FOR REGIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION
YOUNG BALKAN DESIGNERS 2019: CIRCULAR
DESIGN
ABOUT YBD
Young
Balkan Designers(YBD) is a regional talent platform founded in 2011 with the
aim to identify,promote and developcreative potential of the Balkan regionin
the field of productdesign. The initiative also aims at unifying regional
design scene, bringing it closer to the international market, strengthening its
potential by providing additional education and practice, while at the same
time contributes to the restoration of multi-cultural cooperation in the Balkan
region.
NEW!
“Young Balkan Designers”
competition consists of two parts. In the first part we challenge young
designers to get familiar with the basics of circular economy and explore
possibilities of innovative design approach enhancing circularity of product,
materials, services and concepts. Wider selection of winners made in the first
round of the selection process will be part of a talent exhibition at the
Mikser Festival 2019, while the best projects selected at the Mikser Festival
will tour major regional design festivals. Big news of the YBD 2019 edition is
that we introduced the second, product-oriented phase of the project in
collaboration with leading regional furniture and product manufacturers.
Representatives of selected companies will choose designers among the final
winners of the YBD19 competition based on their performance in the first part
of the competition, to collaborate with on development of new circular products
whose prototypes will be developed in cooperation with the mentor companies and
exhibited at Salone Satellite within International Furniture Fair in Milan in
2020. Based on results of potential product's presentation at one of the most
important global fairs, companies will define the future development of
potential products, with possibilities of serial production, which would be a
subject to a separate agreement between the company and the designer.
COMPETITION
THEME 2019: “CIRCULAR DESIGN”
Young Balkan Designers theme
for 2019 - “Circular Design” calls for design projects − products, concepts,
services and scenarios that can bring the Balkans to the forefront
of a much needed paradigm shift in design, production and consumption. We
challenge you to think about circularity of the production process
and how it can address the changing needs of product and services users,
implementation of local skills and resources, involvement of your immediate
surroundings in problem-solving process and production, creating a positive
impact,both on your local community and the rising global issues.
Today's
linear ‘take, make, dispose’ economy relies on large quantities of cheap,
easily accessible materials and energy, and is a model that is wasteful and
polluting. A circular economy is a viable alternative, but
to drive the transition towards a more regenerative economy, we need to think
and design differently.At its core, a circular economy means that products no
longer have a linear life cycle with a beginning, middle, and end, but are
restorative and regenerative, they contribute less waste and can add value to
their ecosystem. When materials stop being used, they go back into a useful
cycle, hence the circular economy.
Design
defines the types of resources used and the way they are combined in the
production process and use, time and possibilities of recycling, efficiency of
resource use, reuse, the potential lifecycle of the product, the possibility of
repair and return of the product or service to the market. Designers play an
essential role in choosing materials that are fit for the circular economy. Not
all materials are suitable for use in circular products because they contain
chemicals of concern that may be polluting or potentially hazardous for humans
or the environment.
Making
products, services or organisations more circular can begin with small changes.
Understand an everyday product by exploring the system it is part of. Imagine
how both could be redesigned to be in accordance with the circular economy and
its three principles: design out waste and pollution; keep products and
materials in use; regenerate natural systems. Look at the material flows and
examine where they come from and where they go after use? Can you find
opportunities to redesign this system?
Useful
Links on Circular Design:
INTERNATIONAL
JURY
Ladeja Godina Kosir, Founder
and Executive Director, Circular Change, Slovenia
Orhan Niksic, CEO, Zanat,
Bosnia and Hercegovina
Vasso Asfi&Loukas Angelou,
StudioLav, Greece / UK
Jelena
Matic, Professor at the University of Belgrade Serbia
Nikola
Radeljkovic, Product Designer, Numen / ForUse, Croatia
Maja
Lalic, Founder, Mikser Association, Serbia
COMPETITION
SUBJECT AND CRITERIA
Design concepts; Products -furniture,
lighting, interior elements, everyday objects, aid products, shelters, home
accessories,fashion garments, stationary; etc. Urban services; Innovative
design and production scenarios that offer economically and socially
sustainablesolutions to local problems, both in urban and rural environments.Criteria
appreciated by the Jury: potentials for circularity of product or its elements;
socially engaging and innovative features of the project that enhance thequality
of everydaylife; ergonomics; rational production and transportation costs; innovative
use of materials available locally;implementation of local knowledge and
techniques;environmentally friendly production process, innovative use of
recycled materials; significant social impact on local community and global
issues.
GENERAL
TERMS
The competition is open to all persons
born in 1985* 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.
* Age limit is the requirement of the Salone Satellite talent zone of
Milan Furniture Fair dedicated to designers under 35. Authors applying to YBD
now should be 35 or under in 2020, when the selected winners will be exhibiting
at Salone Satellite.
DEADLINE
AND PROJECT SUBMISSION
The competition is open from 24
December,2018 till 20 February, 2019
COMPETITION
TIMELINE, AWARDS AND WINNERS ANNOUCEMENTS
The YBD competition consists of
2 parts:
Part 1
Open Call:
“Young Balkan Designers: Circular Design”
The Jury will select the first
round of works to be presented in the TalentExhibition at Mikser Festival 2019
in Belgrade, from 24-26 May. Based on exhibited prototypes at Mikser Festival,
the Jury will select the final winners of the YBD19 competition whose prototypes
will be included in YBD 2019touring exhibition at regional design festivals.
Awards –
Part 1:
·
Participation in the Talent Exhibition at
Mikser Festival 2019 (30-40 projects)
·
Touring exhibition at design festivals in
the region (10-15 projects)
Part 2:
Collaboration with manufacturers
During Mikser Festival 2019 a
series of workshops and special meet-ups between the final competition winners
and representatives of selected regional furniture and product manufacturers
will be organized to detect the designers' capacities to enter the second part
of the competition - collaboration with
companies on development of a concrete desing product or a service. Successful
prototypes developed through this collaboration will be exhibited at Salone
Satellite within International Furniture Fair in Milan in 2020 at the
companies' expenses. Based on results of potential product's presentation at
one of the most important global fairs, companies will define the future
development of potential products, with possibilities of serial production,
which would be a subject to a separate agreement between the company and the
designer.
Awards –
Part 2:
·
Entering cooperation with regional
furniture and product manufacturers (3-5 designers)
·
Participation at Milan Furniture Fair 2020,
at Salone Satellite (3-5projects)
Winners
Anouncements
On 4th March, 2019: Wider selection of participants of the Mikser
Festival Talent Exhibition will be announced
On 26th May 2019: Final Winners of YBD19 Touring Exhibition will be
announced
In June, 2019: Selected list of
designers for collaboration with manufacturers will be announced
In December, 2019: Final list
of developed projects to be exhibited at Salone Satellite at Milan Furniture
Fair will be announced
IMPORTANT
NOTES
If selected for the Talent
exhibition at Mikser Festival 2019, submitted entries in the category of
products must be executed as functional prototypes, while concepts and
scenarios must be adequately presented through other media (installation,
video, animation, story board, etc). By submitting this application, designers
commit, if selected to participate in the exhibition, to produce their
prototype and secure their transportation to Belgrade, Serbia by 23May 2018, at
their own expense.
Upon the announcement of the Part1
Competition resultsin March, the Organizers will contact the laureates to
provide them with the official invitation letter to accompany their prototypes
during the transportation and the detailed information about the delivery /
pick-up location. Authors of selected
projects to tour to other design festivals in the region leave their
prototypeswith the YBD organizational team. After the touring exhibition,
prototypes will be returned to Belgrade where designers can pick them up at
their own expenses. Other participants of the Talent exhibition at the Mikser
Festival will need to pick up their prototypes on 27 May.
For all participants of the
Talent exhibition of the Mikser Festival affordable accomodation (hostel or
host family) will be offered by the organizer for one representative per
project, while transportation to and from Belgrade is on the designers' own expense.
Upon the announcement of the
Part 2 Competition results in June, 2019, the Organizers will contact the
selected designers to connect them with the manufacturers and present the
working plan for their collaboration.
The decisions of the jury are final.
Any claims arising in relation to the authorship of the design or ofpossible
plagiarism thereof, will be the responsibility of the designer. In the event of
non-fulfillment ofany of the rules herein, or in the case of inconsistency of
the prototypes with the project selected by the jury, the objects submitted
will be excluded from the Competition and the accompanying events.
ORGANIZER:
Mikser Association / Serbia /
www.mikser.rs
Partners:
HDD / Croatia / dizajn.hr
Public Room/ Macedonia / publicroom.org
MAO / www.mao.si / Centre for
Creativity / Slovenia / www.czk.si
Polis University / Albania /
www.universitetipolis.edu.al
Days of Architecture / Bosnia
and Hercegovina / http://www.daniarhitekture.ba/
Media Partners:
Designed.rs
Danas
Project is conducted under the umbrella of BALKAN
DESIGN NETWORK - Innovative platform established with the aim of articulating
and providing long-term strategic support for the development and promotion of
the Balkan design on European and International level.
The Project is supported by the
United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The views expressed in this call are
those of Mikser organization and do not necessarily represent those of the
UNDP.
INFO &INQUIRIES:
ybd@mikser.rs
On
the occasion of the jubilee, one hundred years of the Faculty of Forestry, the Department of Wood Technology is organizing an
exhibition of projects of its students. Representative examples of
furniture and interiors were selected, from the collection of
several hundred student projects, which were made for the needs of
equipping the space of the Faculty of Forestry. The review of works
provides insight into the scope and quality of design solutions that
include realizations from previous periods, current works, as well as
future visions of the development of the faculty space./ Povodom
jubileja, sto godina postojanja Šumarskog fakulteta, odsek Tehnologije
drveta priređuje izložbu projekata svojih studenata. Izabrani su
reprezentativni primeri nameštaja i enterijera, probranih iz zbirke od
više stotina studentskih projekata, a koji su rađeni za potrebe
opremanja prostora Šumarskog fakulteta. Sagledavanjem radova pruža se
uvid u obim i kvalitet projektantskih rešenja koji obuhvataju
realizacije iz prethodnih perioda, tekuće radove, kao i buduće vizije
razvoja prostora fakulteta. 
Posts
