Design Forum. HUMANITY IN DESIGN. Nitra, April 26–30, 2023
We invite you to visit the exhibition HUMANITY IN DESIGN - Design in the context of the crisis, which is held as part of the 24th edition of the Design Forum exhibition.
How to make the world around us more humane?
It can also be done with a design that is human, empathetic, inclusive, caring, useful, emotional, healthy, meaningful, socially beneficial, economically beneficial, ecologically responsible and sustainable, in one word: humanistic...
We invite you to visit the exhibition HUMANITY IN DESIGN - Design in the context of the crisis, which is held as part of the 24th edition of the Design Forum exhibition.
The Slovak Design Centre brings to Nitra the well-known exhibition format Forum of Design, after a several-year pandemic break, with new energy and the theme of Humanity in Design! Students from the Department of Design, Department of Textile Creation and Department of Visual Communication of the AFAD are also presenting themselves at the exhibition. The curator of the exhibition is Silvia Seneši Lutherová from the Department of Art Theory and History.
The humanistic approach to design is represented at the exhibition by the realisations of 36 students, as well as collective projects from four universities teaching design in Slovakia. These are the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Slovak Technical University, the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University in Košice and the Woodworking Faculty of the Technical University in Zvolen.
The exhibition is a unique reflection of the design of the pandemic and post-pandemic period: it presents works that were created during several years of the pandemic and have not yet been exhibited anywhere. At the same time, it also brings proposals that could not be implemented due to pandemic restrictions. Several of the projects are graduation works, others were created directly for the exhibition in the past academic year.
Various areas of design are represented at the exhibition: furniture and interior design, product and textile design, as well as visual communication and experimental design, in a unique collage of designs, research projects, models, experimental installations and prototypes ready for production.
The idea of design applying humanistic concepts and methods is currently spreading around the world as an acceptable alternative for the creation of objects, environments, systems and communications, which leads to a socially just, healthy and economically secured future of human civilization and at the same time to the preservation and prosperity of the entire ecosystem. As can be seen at the exhibition, the creation of conscious, responsible and sustainable design by the upcoming generation of designers is full of invention and creativity, which is passed on for the benefit of a better life for every person, without adverse impact on the next generations of human society, or other living organisms on our planet.
The exhibition is part of the 31st edition of the Furniture, Home Accessories, Design and Architecture Fair. The furniture and housing fair is an excellent platform for communicating the ideas of humanistic design to the general public. An important dimension of the event is also the stimulation of cooperation between schools, professional manufacturers and professional institutions. The Humanity in Design exhibition also presents several successfully implemented collaborations.
Place:
- Pavilion M3, agrocomplex NATIONAL EXHIBITION, state enterprise, Nitra
Duration: April 26 - 30, 2023
- Opening hours: 9.30 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. (on Sundays until 5.00 p.m.)
Organizers of the exhibition
- Slovak Design Centre
- agrokomplex NÁRODNÉ VÝSTAVISKO, š.p.
Author of the concept and curator of the exhibition
- Silvia Seneši Lutherová
Exhibition partners:
- Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava: Department of Design, Department of Textile Creation, Department of Visual Communication; Studio of Industrial Design, Studio of Experimental Design, Studio of Interior Design, Studio of Textile Design, Studio Space
- Slovak Technical University: Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Interior and Exhibition Design; Studio Kotrádyová, Studio Kočlík, Studio TR1MTAB, Studio Paliatka, Studio Kubušová
- Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Woodworking, Department of Furniture and Interior Design
- Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Arts, Department of Design, Innovation Studio, Visual Communication Studio
Collaboration:
Ferdinand Chrenka, Michaela Lipková, Peter Paliatka, Elena Farkašová, Dušan Kočlík, Mária Fulková, Veronika Kotradyová, Katarína Morávková, Tibor Uhrín, Andrej Haščák, Sylvia Jokelová, Zuzana Šebeková, René Baďura, Miroslav Debnár, Ján Jánoš, Mária Nepšinská
Exhibiting authors:
Martina Bajteková, Ondrej Bukovec, Damián Cehlárik, Ondrej Ferianec, Natália Golianová, Ivana Gondová, Simona Hanesová, Žofia Horová, Frederika Krištofová, Eva Jenčuráková, Lenka Slačková, Katarína Plačková, Adam Trup, Adam Kukuc, Martina Zacharová, Petra Vicianová, Ivana Palušová, Jana Vlčková, Michala Lipková, Vlasta Kubušová, Matúš Lagin, Petra Rybánska, Terézia Kováčiková, Katarína Lešková, Soňa Pčolková, Silvia C. Bárdová, Timea Kepová, Viktor Tabiš, Pavlína Árendášová, Miroslav Vašek, Laura Sasváriová, Šimon Galanský, Diana Paulová, Martin Miština, Stella Šimurková
+ Group of students from Studio of Industrial Design, AFAD: Georgios Somarakis, Samo Hartiník, Aneta Mintálová, Zuzana Kasanová, Andrey Golovashev, Veronika Gruberová, Andrea Bišťanová, Katarína Jurčišinová, Barbora Kvietkova, Pavol Soukal, Radovan Labaš, Ernest Marko, Natálie Česláková, Juraj Trojan, Laura Šunová, Simona Duchoňová, Beata Juritková, Viki Fehérová, Aneta Mintálová, Tomáš Ružinský, Vira Fesenko
Graphic Design
- Peter Nosáľ
Exhibition Designer
- Andrea Ďurianová
Production
- Gabriela Rybáriková, Silvia Seneši Lutherová
Special thanks to
- DREVONA
With the support of
- Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
General advertisement partner of the SCD
- J&T BANKA
Main Media Partner
- Designum