"Grow your community" is the slogan of the sixth edition of the Mood for wood international design workshop. Between August 21 and 30 this year in Poznan, students and young designers from Poland and Germany, will design and build urban furniture for two gardens in Poznan's Szeląg.
The Mood for Wood workshop is ten days, during which participants, under the guidance of architects and designers from all over the world and experienced carpenters, design, and independently build urban furniture for selected local communities. Participants work on a specific location, meeting with users of the space, learning about their needs and the problems of the place. In order for the project to come to fruition, they are required to get approval of their ideas from the recipients. Then, based on the cost estimate developed, participants place an order for specific materials, from which they build wooden furniture or installations with their own hands.
public gardens
This year's edition will take place in August in Poznan's Szeląg district and will focus on public gardens and urban furniture designed for these spaces. Gardens build a sense of community, integrate the local community, and allow people to stay and coexist with nature. Growing your own fruits, vegetables or herbs also influences a new understanding of ecology, teaches where plants come from, how to care for them, how to protect the environment. The most important thing about community gardens is that they positively change the space around us, and their character is created by local residents.
The organizers of the workshop are SARP Poznań and the Common Point Association.
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Recruitment through the application form from March 5 to June 15 this year.
The cost of participation in the workshop is 130 EUR / 550 PLN, due to possible changes in the date, the organizers will not require any payment from qualified participants until the implementation on a given date is certain.
workshop: August 21 to 30 this year, Poznań
We also announce the next edition of the workshop entitled "Neighborhood", which will take place at the end of July in Cieszyn, and its participants will be designers from Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, who will create furniture to integrate residents on both sides of the border. Recruitment of participants will last until May 18.
For more information, visit the organizers' website.
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illustrations courtesy of the organizers
