Exhibition Future Legacies - MADE IN Platform

The Future Legacies exhibition brings together the results of three years of collaboration between designers, craftspeople, scientists and other experts, facilitated by ten organisations across six European countries as part of the MADE IN Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design.

Through over 60 activities, the Platform explored new articulations of the knowledge embedded in the rich legacy of craftsmanship and science, while encouraging critical thinking through contemporary design and art practices and the latest materials science. The Future Legacies exhibition is a space where heritage meets innovation, place-based knowledge intersects with speculative futures, and craft stands at the heart of both cultural continuity and ecological transformation.

This exhibition is built on an exploration of the ways in which traditional skills, local materials and scientific methods can enrich each other. It examines the dynamic intersection where craft-based knowledge meets contemporary design practices and emerging technologies in the form of vibrant, evolving practices continually reshaped by context and collaboration.

Future Legacies is narrated via installations, objects, materials, tools, videos and research documents, all produced in the course of workshops, residencies and field research based on local knowledge, heritage and experimental methods from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Portugal, Serbia and Slovenia.

The following are just some of the exhibits that will be on display:

• Objects intricately woven from local plants such as palm and junco
• Mycelium-based materials for soil regeneration
• Objects created through reinterpreted blacksmithing practices
• Gold embroidery and clay extrusion (painting) techniques transformed by contemporary design approaches
• Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea, from purple dye and discarded weapons to the use of AI and craft in creating fashion items
• The results of collaborations involving fashion designer, toymakers and ceramicist
• Insights into the use of liquid silk for the sustainable refinement of wool
• Experimental processes of cultivating live algae cultures for algae-based textile inks
• Positioning craft as a reparatory land practice and enhance connectivity of urban biodiversity

The Future Legacies exhibition will showcase a wide range of new possibilities for craft processes based on transdisciplinary knowledge and skills exchange – which in turn has the potential to effectively address many of the social and environmental issues facing us today.

Works featured by:

• Residencies:

Toino Abel, Adin Alispahić, Joana Astolfi, Sam Baron, bioMATTERS (Nancy Diniz, Frank Melendez), Kim Cordes, Adisa Džino Šuta, James Early, Igor Eškinja, Cécile Feilchenfeldt, Toni Grilo, Christian Haas, Žan Kobal, Flora Lechner, Miran Matošević, Sónia Mendez, Susana Mendez, Tarik Musakadić, Rok Oblak, Vahid Ohran, Abílio Pereira, Henrique Rahleta, Isidoro Ramos, Debra Solomon, Atelier Stanišić, Robertina Šebjanič, Trajna/Krater Collective (Gaja Mežnarič Osole, Andrej Koruza), Domingos Vaz, SOLL (Miro Roman, Silvio Vujičić)

• Workshops and Summer Schools:

Uroš Antić, Liudmila Antonova, Blaž Bajželj, João Barrulas, Alina Biriukova, Tanja Blašković, Uwe Bodenschatz, Sofija Buzadžić, Sara Cherry, Olímpia Cabritan, Tiago Correi, Claudia Crowe, Jana Culek, Helena Črne Hladnik, Ema Čimbur, Beatrice Dietel, Andrija Dinulović, Janko Dimitrijević, Igor Dragišić, Zoja Erdeljan, Markus Füchtner, Aneja Fučka, Marko Gajić, Marta Glavčić, Marija Gorjanc, Bernarda Gotlin, Renata Hari, Anđela Hauk, Stefan Heinz, Nuno Henriques, Ana Ilešič, Dorotea Jonov, Laure Julien, Milena Jovanović, Hannah Klein, Alicia Knight, Marija Kojić, Andrej Koruza, Eva Kraljić, Roman Krohs, Rok Kuzman, Fia Lemajič, Ana Marija Lončar, Alen Mangafić, Isabel Martin, Dilara Merakli, Sónia Mendez, Gaja Mežnarić Osole, Calvin Middel, Miljana Milojković, Marija Mladenović, Maëva Morinière, Emira Najdenova, Lars Neubert, Marin Nižić, Carl Nopens, Daniel Novakovic, Ivana Papić, Matej Pavšek, Tina Pernuš, Lenka Petrović, Lotte Pönnighaus, Ema Pratnekar, Henrique Ralheta, Paula Raab, Maruša Ramšak, Zorana Rebrenović, Sanja Rejc, Lara Ropič Bizjak, Michael Rosenthal, Sanja Rotter, Simona Rozman, Annette Rüffer, Bernd Schöser, Jan-Erik Schützhold, Lara Selmanović, Alexandra Sentis, Helena Silva, Debra Solomon, Ema Spasojević, Danica Sretenović, Jovana Stojković, Astrid Suzan, Tina Šepetavc, Urška Škerl, Mateja Šmid Hribar, Hana Tavčar, Marlen Tröger, Katarina Trpčić, Markus Weber, João Xará, Lara Žagar

• Curatorial Team:
  Oaza (Ivana Borovnjak, Maja Kolar)
  MAO (Maja Vardjan, Cvetka Požar)
  SKD (Thomas A. Geisler)

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MADE IN Platform are: Oaza, Croatia; Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Slovenia (coordinator), Center Rog, Slovenia; Zenica City Museum (MGZ), Bosnia and Herzegovina; Drugo More, Croatia; State Art Collections Dresden, Museum of Decorative Arts (SKD), Germany; Museum of Arts and Crafts (MUO), Zagreb, Croatia; Nova Iskra Creative Hub (Nova Iskra), Serbia; Passa Ao Futuro (PAF), Portugal; and the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau (WHZ), Germany.

MADE IN Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design is a research, design, and heritage initiative encouraging collaboration, knowledge exchange and diversification between traditional craftspeople and contemporary designers, as well as other experts in the fields of culture and science. MADE IN was initiated by Oaza in 2014, while the MADE IN platform is coordinated by Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO).

MADE IN Platform is co-funded by the European Union.