Designing in Coexistence Niko Mihaljević

Project description

The book Designing in Coexistence – Reflections on Systemic Change resulted from Croatia’s pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale, part of the project Same as it Ever Was. The book is small and comfortable in size, printed entirely in brown monochrome on cheap paper. It is modest in production, emphasizing simplicity and sustainability in design. Unpretentiously designed pages with running text are interspersed with a series of landscape photographs depicting a group of cows spending an ordinary day in Lonjsko polje. These images bring a visual element of natural slowness and harmonious coexistence with the environment to the book.

design

Niko Mihaljević

contributors

Association of Croatian Architects, Zagreb (publisher) in cooperation with: Ministry of Culture and media of the Republic of Croatia, Academy of Fine Arts, Split, Faculty of Architecture (University of Zagreb), School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy (University of Split), Department of Media Design, University North

editors

Ivica Mitrović, Mia Roth, Tonči Čerina

executive editor

Morana Matković

contributors

Martín Ávila, James Auger, M. Buonincontri, Sigrid Bürstmayr, Luka Fatović, Valentin Graillat, Francesco E. Guida, Harriet Harris, Vedran Kasap, Boštjan Botas Kenda, Emil Kozole, Niko Mihaljević, Ivica Mitrović, Lígia Oliveira, Open Forest Collective (Andrea Botero, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi and Chewie), Nejc Prah, Mia Roth & Tonči Čerina, Michael Smyth, Mladen Šolić, Oleg Šuran, Olivier Troff, Ozana Ursić