Photo: Klemen Ilovar
-August 2022-
United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, India, Hungary, Hong Kong and more. Find out what has been written about BIO27 around the globe in this special selection of articles.
Metropolis Magazine, USA, Frederico Duarte:
“... the work conducted by the biennial’s production platforms nevertheless questions power relations between rulers and citizens. By developing processes and projects that defy tradition, convention, and legislation these platforms advocate for a socially committed and emancipatory design practice. When doing so within a cultural institution— and not, say, within industry or academia— they question what we mean by the production of knowledge but also of content, value, and wealth...”
More>>
Financial Times, United Kingdom, Malaika Byng:
“… Withers is assembling groups of designers, ecologists and material scientists to come up with solutions for local Slovenian needs that draw on local and international knowledge. “Design has been in a silo for too long,” she says….”
More>>
DAMN, EU, Dawn Huang:
“To re-brandish the disempowered cultural wisdom, the 27th edition of BIO Ljubljana (BIO27) aims to delineate the urgency and possibilities of reinventing tradition-inspired knowledge, under the theme of Super Vernaculars: Design for a Regenerative Future.”
More>>
DesignBoom, United Kingdom, Myrto Katsikopoulou:
“…the exhibition seeks to reflect on all these ideas that we’ve forgotten about, or we’ve overlooked, and that make sense again. It’s about combining ancient practices and contemporary technologies…”
More>>
Disegno, United Kingdom, Joe Lloyd:
“… quietly but convincingly, Super Vernaculars calls for nothing less than a wholesale revolution…”
More>>
Monocle, United Kingdom, Guy De Launey:
“...after all, with all the challenges the world is currently facing, we could all do with a bit of “super vernacular” in our lives…”
More>>
Axis Mag, Japan, Sanae Sato:
“…世界中からリュブリャナに集まった土着のイニシアチブは、デザインの力で未来を前向きに変えるためのインスピレーションに満ちています…”
(“…the vernacular initiatives gathered in Ljubljana from all over the world are full of inspiration for changing the future positively with the power of design…”)
More>>
Ming Pao News, Hong Kong, Dawn Hung:
“……超白話之所以上新台階，是因為設計立足於可持續發展，篩選隱藏在民間的智慧，並激活它來解決社會、社會等當下世界……”
(“… the reason why Super Vernaculars has reached a new level is that the design is based on sustainable development, screening the wisdom hidden in the folk, and activating it to solve the current world such as society and society…”)
More>>
Hype&Hyper, Hungary, Noémi Viski:
“… when combined, illustrate what Super Vernaculars is all about: designers should respond to the challenges of the present using modern technologies with maximum respect and consideration for the eco-conscious, local practices of the past…”
More>>
STIR World, India, Devanshi Shah:
“...while the idea of a vernacular may seem to be a celebration of the past, Withers' curation brings together forward-thinking designers and thinkers to take these ideas forward....”
More>>
Buro, Serbia, Jelena Karakaš:
“…u pitanju je bijenale koje otvara niz važnih tema, a odmah nudi i potencijalna rešenja….”
(“...it is a biennale that opens up a series of important topics, but immediately offers potential solutions...”)
More>>
Forbes CZ, Czech Republic, Alexandra Strelcova:
“… zkoumá stále vlivnější trendy kolem biomateriálů a lidové architektury a nabízí skrze ně
odpovědi na současné globální výzvy...”
(“… explores the increasingly influential trends around biomaterials and vernacular architecture offering through them answers to current global challenges …”)
More>>