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 exhibited works are divided into four thematic clusters: Craft heritage reinterpreted, Hybrid environmental practices, Innovation with heritage and natural resources, and Learning and knowledge transfer. Each cluster explores and opens up new avenues for contemporary craft practices that integrate different knowledge and harness the benefits of skills sharing. Together, they shed new light on craftsmanship as a living, developing practice capable of effectively addressing the many social and environmental issues of our time.
The curatorial team is composed by Oaza (Ivana Borovnjak, Maja Kolar); MAO (Cvetka Požar, Maja Vardjan); SKD (Thomas A. Geisler). The exhibition is on view at Center Rog (15 May—6 September 2025) and at the Museum of Architecture and Design (15 May—14 September 2025) in Ljubljana.
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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).