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Gaja Mežnarić Osole, Rok Oblak, Maša Cvetko, Andrej Koruza, Anamari Hrup, Eva Hanžek, Sebastjan Kovač, Primož Turnšek, John Buscarino, Aleksandra Kansky

The Krater collective

http://www.krater.si

Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Krater collective gathers individuals and organisations (NGO’s) with numerous experiences from design, architecture, tactical urbanism, social work, activism and permaculture planning. United through on-site activities, the collective aims to explore ways to create symbiotic ecosystems through citizen led research, DIY workshops, community actions, art installations and micro productions in which creative practicioners become actors who actively co-create balance within the damaged natures.

Call for ideas 2021

Pioneers at Work


Regrowing livable worlds with invasive plants

Pioneers at Work


Regrowing livable worlds with invasive plants
Using feral plants to transform an urban wasteland into a living laboratory for creative production.
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Krater is an emerging production space for transdisciplinary practices, which sprouted from the neglected, crater-resembling construction site near the city center of Ljubljana. By exploring the potential for world-making projects on the lands of anthropogenic ruins, Krater acts as the situated prototype of a terraforming agency. Site-specific production stations (papermaking workshop, wood workshop & myco-design lab) which consist of open access, ever-evolving workshop spaces, are set to create a dialogue with the impoverished crust of earth colonised with invasive and other feral plants. Taking the regenerative capacities of these pioneering species as its inspiration, Krater is set to produce environmentally conscious materials, practices and alliances which invite urban communities to open their eyes to the land and each other anew. Doing so, it reimagines wastelands as spontaneous gardens of human-plant companionships, working together towards building more interconnected futures.

Constructive Wastelands (March 2021). Hands-on workshop on biocomposites from on site waste, invasive plants and local industrial waste, where the potentials of their use in architecture and design will be tested. In collaboration with Pedro Jervell (PT) from ex SKREI architecture.

Paper Grounding (forthcoming). A design-led research by geologist/clay designer Anja Slapničar (SI), artist/mushroom researcher Saša Spačal (SI), product designer/DIY maker Rok Oblak (SI) and designer/feral ecologies researcher Gaja Mežnarić Osole (SI) investigating hand paper-making as a multispecies collaboration and practice of care.

Krater Summer School (June 2021). A two weeks program of workshops, lectures and screenings invites creative teams to engage and experiment with local agro-waste and foraged materials through producing new design projects and alliances. Guest designers Brave New Alps (IT), in collaboration with Center for Creativity (SI).

Abandoned Plants Sanctuary (October 2020) serves as a refugee for abandoned plants from the streets of Ljubljana and invites its visitors for their adoption. Project by artists Eva Hanžek in Anamari Hrup (SI).

The Golden Wishes Pond (October 2020) saves the invasive goldfish from being eaten by the animals in the ZOO. The pond works as an aquaponic system and a sound installation. In collaboration with prostoRož (SI).

Pioneers at Work


Regrowing livable worlds with invasive plants

Pioneers at Work


Regrowing livable worlds with invasive plants
Using feral plants to transform an urban wasteland into a living laboratory for creative production.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Krater is an emerging production space for transdisciplinary practices, which sprouted from the neglected, crater-resembling construction site near the city center of Ljubljana. By exploring the potential for world-making projects on the lands of anthropogenic ruins, Krater acts as the situated prototype of a terraforming agency. Site-specific production stations (papermaking workshop, wood workshop & myco-design lab) which consist of open access, ever-evolving workshop spaces, are set to create a dialogue with the impoverished crust of earth colonised with invasive and other feral plants. Taking the regenerative capacities of these pioneering species as its inspiration, Krater is set to produce environmentally conscious materials, practices and alliances which invite urban communities to open their eyes to the land and each other anew. Doing so, it reimagines wastelands as spontaneous gardens of human-plant companionships, working together towards building more interconnected futures.

Constructive Wastelands (March 2021). Hands-on workshop on biocomposites from on site waste, invasive plants and local industrial waste, where the potentials of their use in architecture and design will be tested. In collaboration with Pedro Jervell (PT) from ex SKREI architecture.

Paper Grounding (forthcoming). A design-led research by geologist/clay designer Anja Slapničar (SI), artist/mushroom researcher Saša Spačal (SI), product designer/DIY maker Rok Oblak (SI) and designer/feral ecologies researcher Gaja Mežnarić Osole (SI) investigating hand paper-making as a multispecies collaboration and practice of care.

Krater Summer School (June 2021). A two weeks program of workshops, lectures and screenings invites creative teams to engage and experiment with local agro-waste and foraged materials through producing new design projects and alliances. Guest designers Brave New Alps (IT), in collaboration with Center for Creativity (SI).

Abandoned Plants Sanctuary (October 2020) serves as a refugee for abandoned plants from the streets of Ljubljana and invites its visitors for their adoption. Project by artists Eva Hanžek in Anamari Hrup (SI).

The Golden Wishes Pond (October 2020) saves the invasive goldfish from being eaten by the animals in the ZOO. The pond works as an aquaponic system and a sound installation. In collaboration with prostoRož (SI).

Idea by

Gaja Mežnarić Osole, Rok Oblak, Maša Cvetko, Andrej Koruza, Anamari Hrup, Eva Hanžek, Sebastjan Kovač, Primož Turnšek, John Buscarino, Aleksandra Kansky
The Krater collective
Ljubljana
Slovenia
The Krater collective gathers individuals and organisations (NGO’s) with numerous experiences from design, architecture, tactical urbanism, social work, activism and permaculture planning. United through on-site activities, the collective aims to explore ways to create symbiotic ecosystems through citizen led research, DIY workshops, community actions, art installations and micro productions in which creative practicioners become actors who actively co-create balance within the damaged natures.
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