14.05.2025
17:30
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Historically, social challenges and crises have always sparked new impulses in design. From the Arts and Crafts movement to the Bauhaus and ecological design in the 1970s, design has always been a response to social, economic, and ecological upheavals.

How is design changing in Europe today, in the face of local and global crises? What strategies define a crisis-resilient European design landscape? What role do tradition, innovation, collaboration, and the artistic play in this? What is Europe’s strength compared to other regions?

EUNIC Berlin is presenting a Lab Talk at the Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory during this year’s Berlin Design Week. A selection of young European designers will address these questions. While they are rooted in the traditional design fields of their respective countries and can thus draw on long-standing expertise and existing industrial or craft structures, they also seek progressive and creative solutions to current challenges with an innovative outlook.

Overview of the designers

• Atelier Ad-hoc (Romania) 
• Anthony Bonnici (Malta) 
• Magda Jugo (Poland) 
• Henna Lampinen (Finland) 
• iii Instrument Inventors (Netherlands) 
• Itthon. (Hungary) 
• Jules Péan (Luxembourg) 
• Robida (Slovenia) 
• Siim Karro (Estonia) 

Yannik Güldner will represent iii and talk about our organisational structure & community approach, in a panel on Design and Social Processes.

Partner: Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory   In cooperation with: Berlin Design Week  |  Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge 

EUNIC organizers:  Collegium Hungaricum Berlin | Polish Institute | Finnish Institute | Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands | Embassy of the Republic of Malta | Embassy of the Republic of Estonia | Slovenian Cultural Information Centre – SKICA Berlin | Romanian Cultural Institute | Grand Duchy of Luxembourg – Embassy in Berlin