During the harshest period in recent global history, social distance did not mean only physical distance, but to a large extent, it determined emotional imbalance and curbed the social, creative and business capacities of individ - uals. As human beings are created to be in physical, emotional, and social interaction with other beings, the lack of embrace providing comfort, warmth and love was something we longed for the most in the previous year.
12th Mikser Festival, which will be held at the end of May in the Zornica Kuca near Belgrade, will be a festival of hope and optimism, with a strong desire to turn all the missed hugs into a new, positive energy. With the help of more than 100 experts, activists, designers and artists, at the last year’s festival we mapped the social, environmental and legislative pre - conditions for creating a sustainable future after a pandemic, launching new initiatives and partnerships. It is time to present the results of the efforts so far and make an action plan for the next steps. Seventy-two hours of uninterrupted dialogue between networked actors from almost all areas of social action will define the Mikser Festival 2021 as a call for a general mobilization of all progressive forces around the agenda for better air, cleaner water, healthier cities, circular economy, improved legisla - tion, social solidarity, sustainable design and strengthened culture.
If you need a Hug, join us!
The festival will gather entire Balkan creative and environmental scene in a multitude of talks, outdoor workshops, performances andexhibitions, in vivid exchange with international special guests: Volker Albus (German design critic and curator, author of the amazing Pure Gold exhibition: https://pure-gold.org/volker-albus/), Richard van der Laken (founder of What Design Can Do - just finished the global No Waste Design Challenge - https://www.whatdesigncando.com/), István Kenyeres (hungarian scientist and inventor, circular waste-water treatment guru, patented: Metabolic Network Reactor (MNR) technology which we are using in our new EU funded project euPOLIS, https://www.biopolus.net/technology/), Daniel Podmirseg (Austrian architect and founder of Vertical Farm Institute https://verticalfarminstitute.org/vertical-farming/), John Keneddy Mosoti (head of UN Population Fund - https://www.unfpa.org/), Will Coldwell (The Guardian contributor - https://www.willcoldwell.com/read-me), and Ladeja G. Košir.
For more & to REGISTER click here: http://mikser.rs/.