Empathy - Young design for everyone
We cordially invite you to the exhibition in the chapel of the Budatín Castle in Žilina
Where:
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Budatín Castle / Chapel
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Topoľová 1, 010 03 Žilina-Budatín
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OPENING HOURS: Tuesday - Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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When:
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29 February 2024 - 30 June 2024
Curator: Zdeno Hogh
- Collaboration: Elena Farkašová, Mária Fulková, Eva Jenčuráková, Barbora Lokajová, Bohuslav Stránský, Eva Veselá
- Graphic design: Eva Jenčuráková
- Organizer: Považie Museum, Žilina
Exhibiting authors
Juliána Bučková, Ondrej Bukovec, Nikoleta Čeligová, Natália Golianová, Eva Jenčuráková, Eliška Karásková, Petr Korecký, Peter Kuliffay, Alexandra Kusá, Veronika Kurcinová, Radovan Labaš, Ivana Miženková, Eliška Mašlonková, Alexandra Meľnyčuková, Terézia Omastová, Kristína Sekerová, Gabriela Semanová, Lenka Slačková, Richard Šětka, Viktor Tabiš, Soňa Vysocká

Annotation
From February 29, 2024, a new exhibition entitled Empathy - Young Design for All awaits visitors in the chapel of Budatín Castle. There are examples of humanistic design, the products of which relate to the theme of disabled people and psychological relaxation. Design is presented as a platform on which the creator and the user meet in mutual human understanding. The exhibition presents the works of students from four art universities – the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University in Košice, the Woodworking Faculty of the Technical University in Zvolen and the Faculty of Multimedia Communications of the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín.
Most of the presented products were created in direct cooperation with experts from other fields (health care, social care, psychotherapy, education and training) or in cooperation between the designer and a specific user. In terms of typology and material, they are diverse products, prototypes and models from the field of furniture, product, textile and experimental design and from the field of visual communication.
"Some of them deal with vision disorders, others deal with disorders of the locomotion system, movement development in children, diagnosis of the mental state of seniors, achondroplasia, and two exhibits are taken from the international student project Long Life, dedicated to the phenomenon of aging. The theme of health handicap is also accompanied by artistic author's reflections of physical and psychological limitations, but the exhibition also features more light-hearted and humorous works intended mainly for children," explains the curator of the exhibition - art historian Mgr. Zdeno Hogh from the Považie Museum.
The exhibition Empathy - Young design for all presents design as a platform on which the creator and the user meet in mutual human understanding. Perhaps all the more unadulterated, because in this imaginary and real meeting it is about solving problems associated with health handicaps. The result can appear non-conforming. In the era of the cult of eternal youth, beauty, unbreakable health and, as it were, "eternal life to the fullest", such a topic sounds rather "burdensome". But it is the presented works of students of four universities that teach design - the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University in Košice, the Woodworking Faculty of the Technical University in Zvolen and the Faculty of Multimedia Communications of the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín.
The works of the students, which were created almost exclusively from the internal impulse of the authors, without "coercion" on the part of teachers and, unfortunately, also without claim and interest on the part of the wider public, show that the taste and smell of real life, even if it is not always sweet, is not distant to young promising designers.