Creative and Culture Sector: Carolina Espinoza (CL), Carolin Liebl (DE), Anna Letycja Walicka (PL), David Rickard (NZ/GB), Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler (DE), Lara Campos (ES), Gijs Schalkx (NL), Anna Schaeffner (FR), NMASA Design (SE/ES/IT), Miha Turšič (SI/NL), Govert Flint (NL)
SME Sector: Peter Sokol, Alen Sapek, Doris Srčič, Dagmar Zvonickova Fredholm, Ivana Linder
A networking event connecting professionals from the culture and creative sectors with SMEs from the plastic industry. An interconnected part of the Label4Future Interregional project.
Participating organizations from the Label4future project will take part in a matchmaking session with professionals from the culture and creative sectors, including designers and new media artists.
The program features presentations, where SMEs will showcase their best practices, present challenges, circular models and future project outcomes.
From the side of the creative professionals, you will have the opportunity to see artworks presented in the exhibition space in POSTCITY. There will also be presentations with a specific focus on imagining the future scenarios for the plastic sector and fostering initiatives on innovations, sustainability and the green transition.
The matchmaking session aims to establish partnerships that will enrich the participating organizations throughout their involvement in the Label4Future program.
Language: EN
By Invitation Only
Bios
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Photo: Alen SapekAlen Sapek
Alen Sapek is the founder of the company AddiFlex with a Master’s degree focused in Metallurgy and Materials from Faculty of natural science and engineering, and finishing a PhD in the field of Materials Science. He is an additive manufacturing enthusiast with great sympathy for the development of new technologies and products. He is also owner of company Additio, which is one of largest additive manufacturing material and printer distributors and 3D printing service providers in region.
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Photo: massaphotographerAnna Letycja Walicka
PL
Anka Letycja Walicka is an artist, designer, and chemist with 14 years of experience in sustainable, innovative design, specializing in footwear, fashion and conceptual design. She continuously seeks new solutions that allow her to transcend the boundaries of traditional design, creating sustainable and timeless projects. Merging artistic vision with environmental care ensures that her designs have a positive impact on the world and future generations.
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Photo: Michelle MantelAnna Schaeffner
FR
Anna Schaeffner (FR) is an interaction designer exploring the field of human-computer interaction through a practice-based PhD at École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« in Berlin. Her research centers on the design of deformable materials. Through her design practice, she investigates tangible interaction as a vehicle for movement programming, dynamic material adaptation, and expressiveness.
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Photo: Katja GoljatCarolin Liebl
DE
Carolin Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfählers generate strange plastic sculptures in collaboration with quirky robots. With these and other sculptural and installation works, the duo explores the interweaving of natural and artificial, human and non-human, material and ideology. They are both graduates of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, where they founded the interdisciplinary art space Atelier Wäscherei in 2019. Their monograph hello world was published in 2022 (Distanz Verlag Berlin).
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Photo: Carolina EspinozaCarolina Espinoza
CL
Carolina Espinoza is an industrial designer who is passionate about sustainable design, open-source hardware and material research. Her journey began with transforming plastic waste into valuable products while supporting a global community. She later specialized in machine design, building and training, always focused on creating impactful solutions. As a former Precious Plastic designer and project manager, Espinoza now channels her experience into Mad Plastic, which delivers accessible recycling solutions and turnkey projects worldwide.
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Photo: © Adela BelliniDagmar Zvonickova Fredholm
Dagmar Zvonickova Fredholm is a co-founder and a director of a multidisciplinary design studio called Identity Designers, established in 2017 in London, which focuses on the relationship between the places we inhabit and our identities. The human experience is the key driver behind all their work, which covers projects of many different scales and sectors and can be found all around the world. In 2022 Dagmar and her business partner Ivana together also launched Novavita Design, a sister company to Identity Designers, which focuses on sustainable material research and development. All the materials produced by the Novavita Lab are made predominately of recycled ingredients and waste.
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Photo: Ewa HerzogDavid Rickard
NZ/GB
David Rickard is a New Zealand artist based in London, UK, working across a range of media including installation, moving image and performance. His original studies in architecture have a lasting impact on his art practice, embedding queries of material and spatial perception deep into his work. Often involving collaboration with scientists, industry and community groups, his projects explore our evolving relationship with the material world within the information age.
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Photo: © Doris SrčičDoris Srčič
Doris Srčič is the co-founder of AddiFlex: I am a passionate advocate for innovation and product development. I have successfully transferred my experience in leading cultural and sports associations to the world of entrepreneurship. Within the company, I am responsible for marketing, where I combine my knowledge of people, organization, and innovative technologies.
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Photo: Gerard BurgersGijs Schalkx
NL
Gijs Schalkx is a Dutch designer and artist. His work celebrates the power of do-it-yourself and the individual agency it brings. Challenging our dependency on the infrastructure that designs our daily lives and through low-tech interventions, he provides us with a more direct understanding of how desire, effort, reward and impact balances out.
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Photo: Govert FlintGovert Flint
NL
Govert Flint studied Architecture at TU Delft (2011, BSc), worked in Shanghai as junior architect and did his master at Design Academy Eindhoven (2014). He graduated with the Bionic Chair, an exo skeleton chair to control the computer with through body movements. In 2015 he founded his design studio Enrichers which is specialized in applying environmental enrichment into daily life. Enrichers has an active furniture collection and does project for European Commission, Heineken, Schiphol Airport and Dutch Railways.
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Photo: © Adela BelliniIvana Linder
Ivana Linder is a co-founder and a director of a multidisciplinary design studio called Identity Designers, established in 2017 in London, which focuses on the relationship between the places we inhabit and our identities. The human experience is the key driver behind all their work, which covers projects of many different scales and sectors and can be found all around the world. In 2022 Ivana and her business partner Dagmar together also launched Novavita Design, a sister company to Identity Designers, which focuses on sustainable material research and development. All the materials produced by the Novavita Lab are made predominately of recycled ingredients and waste.
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Photo: Gaspar Iwaniura LorgeLara Campos
ES
Material designer, researcher and educator driven by curiosity, processes and exploration. Her practice digs through diverse narratives within materials, technologies and living beings while proposing ontologies based on eco-centric approaches and multispecies ideologies. Campos’ practice nurtures through site-specific material research, material R&D, mentoring and collaborating. Her research focuses on emotional response while proposing the exploration of hybrid habitable spaces and the experimentation of new material worlds, as sensorial and interactive experiences in order to ideate better solutions for coexistence.
To support and expand her exploratory nature, Campos works as an educator in diverse universities in Barcelona, and facilitates talks, workshops and seminars internationally. She is also part of several transdisciplinary collectives, where she works on growing materials, local resources foraging, circular & social economies, food waste design, sustainability, co-creation systems and horizontal management.
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Photo: Miha TuršičMiha Turšič
SI, NL
Miha Turšič is an artist, art-science-technology researcher and Space Lab lead at Waag Futurelab. He works on international and transdisciplinary collaborations and the initiation of projects touching on the themes of biotechnology, material research, digital fabrication, open-source hardware, ecology and outer space. He is involved in S+T+ARTS from its beginnings, mainly focusing on collaboration methodologies, its excellence and innovation pathways.
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Photo: Katja Goljat
Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler
DE
Carolin Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfählers generate strange plastic sculptures in collaboration with quirky robots. With these and other sculptural and installation works, the duo explores the interweaving of natural and artificial, human and non-human, material and ideology. Both are graduates of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, where they founded the interdisciplinary art space Atelier Wäscherei in 2019. Their monograph hello world was published in 2022 (Distanz Verlag Berlin).
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Photo: NMASA DesignNMASA Design
SE/ES/IT
Led by Javier Masa, NMASA Design is a design studio based in Malmö, Sweden, that focuses on creating products and experiences with added value, embracing craftsmanship 2.0, and exploring solutions to the sustainability challenges faced by the industry. The studio collaborates with companies and organizations from diverse sectors, with a particular emphasis on furniture manufacturing and other everyday objects.
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Photo: Peter Sokol © JazZoom Photo StudioPeter Sokol
Peter Sokol is a business development and sales professional with a focus on marketing: “My background includes driving growth through traditional and digital channels. I studied Product Design at the Faculty of Art, which enhances my approach to creating effective marketing strategies. I thrive in collaborative environments and am committed to team success.”
Credits
LABEL4FUTURE is funded by the European Union under European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) under grant agreement No. 10113316.
Presented in the context of the LABEL4FUTURE project. LABEL4FUTURE is funded by the European Union (European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency EISMEA) under grant agreement No. 101133162.
