Poligon Creative Centre
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26 Sep 2014
5 Oct 2014
Pop-up Home, an open platform for presentation, exhibition, sales and development, featuring works by young Slovene designers, architects and artists (Poligon Creative Centre), at the Vienna Design Week, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
Capacity and activities
As the biggest artist run space in Slovenia, Poligon spreads on 800m2 and offers 60 desks for artists and makers to rent, 7 offices, 1 conference room, Poligon maker lab with tools for rapid 3D prototyping and product development, a photo studio, crowdfunding lab, a bar for hanging around, store with selected designer goods, a library and big event space.
Besides offering a workspace under subsidised prices, Poligon also engages in organisation of various workshops for young self-employed entrepreneurs and makers, exhibitions and social events. The space was also a venue for second edition of Pop-up dom in November 2013.
In 2015 Poligon collaborated with the MENT Ljubljana.
Pop-up dom
Pop-up dom (or Pop-up home) is a one-month store where products, produced by Slovene makers, artists and designers, are exhibited and put on sale in a homelike atmosphere. The first edition took place in 2012, when a pre-Poligon team occupied an old-fashioned apartment in Ljubljana city centre and transformed it into a co-working environment with selected Slovene products. In 2013 the idea of Pop-up dom had grown bigger, it offered more than 250 design pieces and host various educational and cultural events, such as concerts, culinary happenings and two festivals. In January 2014 a part of it was exhibited in A plus A gallery in Venice.
Team
The Poligon has been built by Luka Piškorič (Crowdfunding.si), Eva Perčič, Marko Orel (Slovenia Coworking), Miha Artnak, Jan Vranjek, Ajda Fortuna, Tilen Sepič, Jurij Lozič (Musguard.com), Nejc Matja and many others. The platform was build entirely in a voluntary way.