The project explores how forests, as a dominant part of Slovenian territory, are being returned to nature and provide an opportunity to reflect on alternative social and design practices. The project asks whether it is possible to imagine and re-enact today the social norms that formed the model of experimental communities developed at the beginning of the 20th century, and thus escape from the rationalization and standardization of so-called modern life. Central works include The Common Stove by Matali Crasset and the installation Edge Effect by Marcin Liminowicz and Pola Salicka, combining participatory processes and local community engagement. The project is complemented by films, digital contributions, and interactive interventions that expand the understanding of the forest as a platform for social connection. Through workshops, collaborations, and scenarios of collective interaction, the project opens new perspectives on sustainability, innovation, and collective creativity.

The project explores the idea of a potential perfect society and collective desire pushed as close as possible to the realm of reality, drawing on the example of former Yugoslavia and the creation of a new state and a new social subject through the realization of socialist society. The team led by Point Supreme takes as its case study Trbovlje, a town with a coal mining tradition and industrial infrastructure, where the collapse of Yugoslavia and the rise of the ideologies of capitalism and privatization caused the collapse of the industrial model of the factory. Rather than imagining an ideal vision for the future, the project examines the present and the hidden realities of the post-industrial town, while reflecting on the past and its utopian meanings without naïve optimism.

The project explores how abandoned construction sites and urban objects can acquire new meanings and functions. The starting point of a main discourse is Kiosk K67, designed in 1966 by the Slovenian architect and designer Saša J. Mächtig. Today, K67 stands as a design icon of the 20th century, a reminder of socialism and urban history, as well as a living organism capable of perpetual regeneration through new functions and vernacular mutations. The project questions how architecture, art, and memory can intertwine within the contemporary urban space. Didier Fiuza Faustino created an interactive installation emphasizing the multisensory relationship between space and the body. Installations, videos, and an interpassive machine actively engage visitors in exploring urban and architectural heritage.

The project explores the countryside as a highly mechanized territory where automation, digitalization, and specialization often replace direct contact with nature and community. The surroundings of the village of Genterovci have been temporarily transformed into a 4 km surrealist tour, where visitors experience food production and consumption through walking, foraging, and eating. The project questions how design, art, and participatory interventions can create a space of awareness and criticism related to today’s hyper-reality of the constructed countryside. A series of installations by mischer’traxler studio actively engage visitors in exploring the contemporary countryside..

The project explores how history, the landscape, and the land itself shape contemporary understandings of the past. Studio Folder conceived the project as three chapters representing military strategies, preservation, and geomancy, with each approach responding to specific moments in time. The land becomes the pivotal element connecting resilience, traces of time, and the complexity of the land’s values. The project raises the question of how we can represent the complexity of the land’s values without oversimplifying them into the mere opposition between exploitation and preservation. Installations and visual experiments invite visitors to experience history and space through different interpretations of the land.

The project explores the generic figure of the hero, whose endeavours involve displacements: epic journeys that today no longer take the form of a circular voyage, but rather a straight line, leading from one point to another, often with no real home left to return to. The project focuses on the complex subject of migration, heroes and their tools for survival, while raising the question of what industrial design, which is based on perpetual economic exchange, can contribute to such a delicate subject.

The project Revealed Hands, organized by the Oloop collective, combines contemporary design issues with socially engaged content and brings the issue of women migrants to the forefront while exploring opportunities for social integration. The exhibition presents the results of a project developed in cooperation between the Oloop design team and women immigrants and asylum seekers from Jesenice. On display are hand-made cushions, a video documentary, and photographs showing the creative process. The project was created in collaboration with the Humanitarian Charity Society Up from Jesenice and numerous collaborators. Location: DESNI ATRIJ MESTNE HIŠE

The project Symbiocene by Gaja Mežnarić Osole and Andrej Koruza addresses non-indigenous invasive plants as one of the consequences of the domination of the human species on this planet. Through a utopian prototype of an urban ecosystem, the designers explore possibilities for new inter-species synergies, in which Ailanthus altissima (Tree of Heaven) and urban beekeeping become tools for changing competitive relations into symbiotic ones. The project opens a reflection on collaboration between species as the foundation of future ecosystems. Location: MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

Exhibition presenting the ideas of an emerging generation of architects and urban planners who understand architecture as a field of critical thinking, research, and social engagement. The Closing Festival of the Future Architecture platform brings together European architects, designers, artists, and curators through exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and film screenings, opening discussions on the key challenges of the contemporary world. Special emphasis is also placed on Plečnik Year, with new research exploring the significance of Jože Plečnik’s architecture for the future. Location: MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

The workshops offer a half-day culinary experience on the episode location of Countryside Reloaded in Genterovci near Lendava. Provided by food researcher Klemen Košir and the author of this project, the workshop include tours of installations, foraging excursions to gather wild plants, and preparation of meals in an empty supermarket specially transformed for this occasion.