Haenke x Designblok 2021
Current Trends in Sustainable Practices in Design: Focus on Czech Republic
Saturday 9 October, 16.30 CET | online and Reflex Stage, Gabriel Loci (Prague)
This talk explores the work of eminent Czech designers and creative practitioners through the lens of global trends related to circular economy, sustainability, and plant-based solutions. What obstacles do they face on their journey to launch a product, create an installation or a collection that makes sense for both the people and the planet? Do they seek inspiration beyond Czech Republic or are they rather turning inwards in order to be “locally sources, locally produced”? We assess the Czech context with four designers and creatives, and see what their vision for the future (worldwide) happiness is.
The talk is in Czech language.
with guest speakers:
Tereza Rosalie Kladosova
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TRK (Czech Republic)
Tereza Rosalie Kladošová is a Czech-based fashion, textile designer, artist and an Academy of Art, Architecture and Design graduate in Prague. In 2019, she received a prize for the Best Designer and Best Fashion designer at the Czech Grand Design Awards, the most prestigious award in Czech Republic.
In her designs, she works with fascination with colours, pattern combination, love for home crafts and her original sense of humour. Tereza is producing her own sustainable material from merino wool leftovers and creates all the prints and patterns inside the studio.
Tereza is currently collaborating with czech brand Woolife, creating line of wool products. Browse the collection here. If you have great idea what we can make together I am all for fun project.
Eduard Herrmann, Matej Coufal
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Herrmann & Coufal
(Czech Republic)
Czech design studio founded by two classmates while still studying at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. It started with one school assignment… and beer(s). Since then, the portfolio has expanded by a variety of projects, especially in the field of product design. They’re all based on a thorough search for balance between purpose and beauty, an emphasis on detail, and courage to go beyond the known boundaries. Although the creative work often involves an experimental series of trial and error, the resulting products are characterized by lightness and a casual, almost intuitive aesthetics.
Their designs are featured in the collections of leading Czech brands, in urban public spaces, as well as in conceptual art installations. Over the years, they’ve been awarded the prestigious Red Dot Award, Designblok Diploma Selection, Czech Grand Design Award, Elle Decoration International Award and others.
Jakub Pollág
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zeitgeist.limited (Czech Republic)
A graduate of the prestigious Royal College of Art in London, Jakub Pollág has had a career as a product designer at the British company Buster+Punch, the Czech studio Olgoj Chorchoj and as creative director of the glassworks Bomma. For 10 years he worked with his colleague Václav Mlynař under the brand studio deFORM, which was awarded as the main winner of the Czech Grand Design and Elle Decoration Design Award. In 2020 Pollág founded his own brand zeitgeist.limited with a focus on limited editions of high quality products.
Darina Zavadilova, Jan Kloss
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PAR Prague
(Czech Republic)
PÁR sneakers & stuff balances between the city and nature, technology and tradition. It arose from the urge to create – not only products, but above all experiences. It connects everything what we like and what we are surrounded by. From music and art, through design, architecture, to trips overseas and outside Prague. PÁR is a responsible local brand that we ourselves would love to discover and follow, because one never knows what will come next. PÁR is created by Jan Kloss and Darina Zavadilová. In the field of design and fashion, they have long been active in a number of activities, such as the creative group OKOLO, the streetwear brand Rap or the designSUPERMARKET festival. In addition, they have more than a decade of experience with the BOTAS 66 project. The lifestyle label based on the history of the traditional Czech footwear brand Botas we created as students (Jan Kloss together with Jakub Korouš) and we later distributed it all over the world through our own stores in the center of Prague.