Month: May 2026

Is a curator, art director and concept-driven cultural practitioner based in Skopje, with more than 10 years of experience in contemporary art, community-based practice and multidisciplinary cultural production. He is the founder of KomshiLOOK, a platform that transforms overlooked public spaces into stages for collective cultural experience. His work combines site-specific art, performance, light and media art, dramaturgy and community engagement. He is also the founder of Skopje Light Art District and The Smallest, and one of the initiators behind LUNA. As a concept thinker, he develops new artistic formats that use art as a tool for visibility, participation and social connection exploring how culture can create dignity, reshape everyday space and open new ways for connection.

Is an Icelandic designer and researcher, exploring material innovation and speculative narratives through experimental design. She graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts with a BA in Product Design in 2017 and from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2025 with a Master’s in Social Design with cum laude and nomination for the Gjise Bakker Award. Valdís has received numerous awards for her design, including Formex Nova-Nordic Designer of the Year.

I’m Michael Pfandl, a 24-year-old industrial design student at FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria. My work moves between product design, toolmaking, and material research, focusing on how design can build better relationships between people and nature. Design has given me the freedom to follow creative impulses, connect different fields, and think beyond familiar patterns. Through hands-on experimentation with biomaterials, digital fabrication, and low-tech making, I explore practical ways of bringing new technologies and local resources together. I’m drawn to projects that link ecology with everyday life and create value through collaboration across regions and disciplines. For me, design is a tangible way to test ideas and make change visible.

Dutch designer with a background in Industrial Design Engineering and a Master’s in Design for Interaction from TU Delft, graduated cum laude with a GPA of 8.95. With around seven years of design experience spanning product, UX/UI, branding, and strategic design, she works at the intersection of complex social challenges and future-oriented thinking. Her graduation project explored human–nature relations in Lombok toward 2045, resulting in an educational program now distributed across ten primary schools. She has contributed to projects shown at the World Expo Osaka and the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science, and currently works as a freelance designer and event architect for international ocean governance initiatives.

I’m a 25-year-old graphic designer from Luxembourg. I finished my Bachelor’s degree in Communication Design at the Trier University of Applied Sciences in February 2026. I’m passionate about exploring different styles and techniques, and I’m always eager to learn and grow in my craft. My main interests lie in typography, branding and editorial design.

Designer and trained carpenter from the Alpine region, where local questions between material origin and landscape conditions shape everyday life. This background informs his research-driven practice, which investigates water systems and the ways human behavior affects environments and the other way around. At the Design Academy Eindhoven, he developed a methodology that combines handcrafted objects with engagement of communities. Recent work includes the exhibition Studio Technogeographies (Z33, Hasselt, 2024), where he presented research on water behavior, materiality, and handmade fieldwork objects. The investigation into Austria’s infrastructure and dependence on artificial snow was shown at Atlas of Distances (Faber, Timisoara, 2023).

Is a product and visual designer, researcher, and advocate exploring the intersection of design, inclusion, and ecological responsibility. Combining social engagement with systems thinking, she develops design solutions that challenge existing structures and center human needs. She studied Product Design in Sarajevo, where she is currently completing her Master’s degree.
Emina’s work explores how design can drive meaningful societal transformation. She collaborates with foundations and international organizations, which informs her impact-driven approach. Her award-winning work has been exhibited across Europe and beyond. She deeply believes that design should not adapt people to the system, but reshape the system to fit people.

Giulia is a Neapolitan transdisciplinary artist currently based in Amsterdam. Her practice explores perception as an unstable interface between the self, technology, and the environment. Mapping a deliberate conceptual arc of moving from the outer environments we observe to the internal environments that observe us. She works on mixed media installations and material research on sustainable darkroom practice, first developed during Covid-19 and later supported by Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten via tech fellowship (2022). Her work has been exhibited throughout the Netherlands, India, Japan and NYC. Her photographic research won the Art and Science Prize at Crqlr Awards (JP) in 2024. In 2023 she co-founded Doka 107, a photographic darkroom studio in the centre of Amsterdam.