A one day experiential event with guests from Finland for designers, start-ups, businessmen, creators, politicians, cultural workers and other!

Design Biotop is an experiential workshop and discussion event that explores the problem solving and trans-disciplinary nature of design, and promotes a design thinking mindset to a country that is searching for design opportunity perspectives and its impact on economic growth. Its aim is to underline the connections between the design mindset, creative processes, education and decision making.

Design Biotop serves as a touchpoint event that illustrates what a change of mindset through design can bring to a wider working understanding of all levels of Slovenian society.

Design Biotop strives to bring together all levels of society in order to rethink the value of design in Slovenia. Its aim is to present alternative mindsets and concepts which will illustrate the possibilities for designers and design thinkers to contribute to creative problem solving and design’s potential for a positive impact on the development of Slovenia.

Finnish speakers will present examples of real time experiences to the open public with a set of talks and short hands-on workshops and exercises. Those involved will be encouraged to actively participate in lectures and talks that will evolve into different self-evaluation exercises. These will provide a hands-on experience to all participating at the event.

Kalevi Ekman – The power of Design in Higher Education and Fusion with Business

Kalevi Ekman – How to set up a perfect multi-disciplinary team?

Lauri Repokari – Bridging the Gap. Design Thinking in Slovenia

Lauri Repokari – Stanford design thinking workshop

Heikki Rajasalo – Make my Product an Icon and Make it Look Good

Marco Steinberg – A Strategic Design Practice Helping Governements and Leaders Innovate

Juuso Koponen – Design for Transparency

Design Biotop Website

Jan Vormann has in a project, urban spatial intervention Dispatchwork, created a real international platform, which through play and playfulness through participation creates a subtle manifestation of the fusion of art and everyday life, through which the artist intervenes in urban greyness of everyday life. Plastic cubes as a material with which Vormann built in gaps, cracks and holes in the urban landscape, not only embodied game, the first children’s contact with the architecture, but also the object of popular culture, with its distinctive coloring becomes critical commentary, satire of complex urban structures in the city. Work has become a global phenomenon, and Dispatchwork an international network, to which we invited everyone.

Young German artist Jan Vormann quickly earned a reputation in the art world for his kinetic sculptures and installations and in recent years particularly with his project Dispatchwork, an intervention in the public space, with which he in a witty way repairs, patches and builds in holes with material of popular culture – with well known plastic construction pieces Lego. It is not superfluous information that Vormann studied monumental art and restoration. With an extremely successful project he has been for three years traveling around the world and repaired old buildings and monuments , including the Great Wall of China and buildings in Venice. Vormann in the last six years has  exhibited worldwide in galleries in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona , Linz, Taipei, Atlanta, New York , St . Petersburg , Belgrade, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Rome, Tehran, Amsterdam and elsewhere. Vormann is a resident of an international residency project TRIBE at Sonica.

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www.artisttalk.eu