Poster by Luba Lukova
It’s organized by design professionals, encouraging a global view on everything design-related, and anything design can find common ground with for a creative intercourse. Graphic design, illustration, fine art, literature, architecture, industrial design, animation, cinema, theatre, folk art, crafts, education, and theory–these are the fields whose disciplines, qualities and attributes we’ll attempt to blur, compare and ponder within the frame of our everyday reality and practice.
The theme of the inaugural Mediterranean Design Workshop is Hand Vs. Machine. Through the lectures and workshops we will explore to what extend our artistic practice and human existence are dependent on machines and anything mechanical, be it a computer, a car, or a mobile phone. Is the machine a substitute for human touch? In what ways do machines define our happiness, how much do they “steal” from it, and, ultimately, what can we design, create and accomplish using only our hands? The first workshop will take place at the Cultural Foundation of Tinos. A part of our program will be the international exhibition Voices in Freedom, shown for the first time in Europe, and presented in collaboration with the International Poster Biennial, Mexico. The 115 limited edition posters, created by some of the world’s leading poster artists, celebrate the bicentennial of the Mexican Independence.
The speakers include: Troika, UK; Luba Lukova, USA; Sophia Tsourti, Greece; Vladimir Zimakov, USA; Lahav Halevy, Israel; and Ron Walkey, Canada.