BIO 23, Call for Entries

El Museo de Arquitectura y Diseño (MAO) de Ljubljana, Slovenia, anuncia la convocatoria internacional para participar en la 23era. Bienal de Diseño -exhibición internacional y competencia de diseño- BIO. En esta oportunidad, las curadoras son Margriet Vollenberg y Margo Konings del estudio “Organisation in Design”. El tema seleccionado para la exhibición es “Relaciones de Diseño”.

The BIO 23 exhibition will be held from 27 September to 11 November 2012 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Margriet Vollenberg and Margo Konings are committed to creating a show that will not only exhibit design works but also communicate with visitors, tell them a story and inspire them. An international jury comprising design experts Giulio Cappellini, Sven Jonke, Sophie Lovell, Jimmy MacDonald and Vasa J. Perović will present awards to the best of the exhibited design works. The BIO Gold Medal, BIO Green Award, BIO Honourable mentions, and the Award for a Student Work will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Biennial on 27 September.

Online entries for exhibitors: 6 February–30 March 2012
Established and emerging young designers, commissioners, manufacturers, tutors, students, design labels, creative collectives, cultural institutions and others are invited to apply for BIO 23 exhibition; the deadline for entries is 30 March 2012. On-line entries for exhibitors

The curators are authors of well-known design events Ventura Lambrate® at Salone del Mobile; Ventura Berlin 2011 at Qubique, and collaborators of designers, companies and organizations, such as Maarten Baas, Kiki van Eijk, Nodus, Hermes, Cappellini, Swarovski, Louis Vuitton, Design Miami, Art Museum Tokyo and Moooi. According the curators BIO 23 will show fresh new ideas and explore how design relates to the social, the sustainable, and the cultural, while displaying crossovers between culture and commerce, crafts and industry. They will select the works to be exhibited from the submissions they receive in response to the Call for Entries. Designers, commissioners, producers, students and design organisations, from anywhere in the world, have time until 30 March 2012 to submit products, concepts and projects, from any area of design, which have been created in the past two years.

BIO Design Awards and international jury
The works exhibited at the Biennial will be competing, for the 23rd time, for the BIO Design Awards. The awards given at BIO represent recognition of quality in design. A jury comprising design experts Giulio Cappellini, Sven Jonke, Sophie Lovell, Jimmy MacDonald and Vasa J. Perović will present awards to the best of the exhibited design works. The BIO Gold Medal, BIO Green Award, BIO Honourable mentions, and the Award for a Student Work will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Biennial on 27 September. The BIO awards are given in accordance with professional standards set by the organiser and the international design experts who constitute the jury. The award-winning works will be included in the International Design Collection of the Museum of Architecture and Design.

New Developments with BIO 23
Preparations are under way for a fresh and exciting Biennial. With the aim of further modernising and internationalising the event, the Museum of Architecture and Design has invited the well-known curators and design promoters Margo Konings and Margriet Vollenberg of the studio Organisation in Design to collaborate with it on this year’s Biennial. Thus, in its 48th year, the Biennial exhibition has received a thematic concept and title and has expanded its scope to include all areas of design.

With BIO 23, the name of the event has changed as well: the Biennial of Industrial Design has become the Biennial of Design. Today it is clear more than ever that it is impossible to set limits on design; the different fields of design are overlapping, while one of the strengths of design is its ability to make connections and supplement its work both within the profession and with fields outside of it. The notion that design is one of the most responsive disciplines to social and cultural change has also informed the new developments in the content and organisation of Ljubljana’s Biennial of Design.

More information > http://www.bio.si 

Publicado por: Caro