Biennale of Design


The Biennale of Design is internationally notable design exhibition, held continuously since 1964 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as the first design biennial in Europe.

History

Since the founding of the Museum of Architecture and Design in 1972, it was titled "Biennial of Industrial Design". In 2010, an accompanying exhibition titled "Alvar Aalto, timeless expression" was organised in co-production with Alvar Aalto Foundation, and the Embassy of Finland in Slovenia.
In 2014, under the guidance of Belgian critic and curator Jan Boelen, it ceased to award actual design products, and instead begun to award the Best Collaboration Award selected by an international jury and presented at the opening ceremony. Its 2019 edition, titled "Common Knowledge" and curated by Austrian design curator Thomas Geisler and assistant curator Aline Lara Rezende, focuses on information crisis due to social media-propagated fake news and the design of news publications.