Salih Teskeredžić Gazzda, Bosnia and Herzegovina Salih Teskeredžić is a designer, a professor at the Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts and the co-founder of brand Gazzda. His impressive design production places him alongside some of the greatest world-renown designers. He is well known for his recognisable style which is a combination of retro-ethnographic local particularities and contemporary design forms which are frequently upgraded by means of certain details that sometimes play a functional role and sometimes they only act as an aesthetic accentuation. The products thus give an impression of being light and natural, primarily due to his ability to follow the natural growth of wood which is one of the essential materials used in his design. A combination of the old and new as well as his masterly accomplished fundamental form and function thus allow his products to be well accepted and widely used in modern interiors. By way of their softness, clean lines and contrast his designs fill the interiors with a touch of cosiness. As already mentioned, his clean forms follow the form of natural wood growth and tree branching, inviting the users to instinctively touch them. His attitude to design is well illustrated in his masterly work and commitment to details. His daring play of combining essential handicraft elements with machine-made items does not only represent certain progress in design, but it also fills the products with designer’s emotions as well as his soul and personality. Salih Teskeredžić has undoubtedly put Bosnia
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Adam Wehsely Swiczinsky AWS Designteam, Austria Since the early days of the technical industrial design studio, AWS Designteam focuses on solutions and tools around and for the human body. They work in fields like healthcare, sports equipment, musical instrument and electronic goods sectors for more than 20 years. The credo of the Austrian studio is to make things better for the users and to be on eye-level with all the stake holders of the research and developmet process for new products, and to take every input from marketing, engineering down to the assembly line seriosely. The cooperation between AWS Designteam and Ottobock is a long and manifolg relation. AWS started designing othoses for the german parnet comany, in the mid 2000s. Stoping over in supporting subsidiaries in Sweden, USA and the UK, the design agency ended up working with the vienniese Ottobock branch for mecatronic prostheses. Clients: Blue Locar, watersport security devices Elan, skis & snowboards Fischer, alpine & nordic ski equipement Head, skis, snowboards & rackets Julius Meinl, tea & coffee Lomographic Society, photo equipment Odin, tableware & interior ÖBB, Austrian railways Ottobock, healthcare Rehband, sports protection Siemens Home, home appliances Tyrolia, ski bindings Wiener Einkaufsstraßen, retail consortium Awards: • 6x Red Dot Design Award: 2009, 3x 2011, 2013 & 2022 (Ottobock, HEAD, Tyrolia) • 5x IF Design Award: 2009, 2013, 2015, 1016, 2018, (Ottobock) • 3x Austrian National Design Award nominations: 2007, 2017, 2019 (MADA Guitars, Ottobock) • 3x German Design Award: 2010, 2014,
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Felix Perasso: Hotel La Briosa Felix Perasso, Austria Felix Perasso studied Architecture in Innsbruck (Austria) and Lund (Sweden). His master thesis investigated strategies for the activation of abandoned infrastructures and applied the research on a vision for the city center of Genova (Italy). He worked for OMA in Rotterdam and Snøhetta in Innsbruck and Oslo, and is currently teaching as a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck - Studio 2. In 2019 he founded Atelier Perasso, a think tank that operates in Architecture and Urban Design and that uses a conceptual approach to design the impact of a building before its form. His works were exhibited upon others at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, the EXPO Real in Munich and the Prague Experimental Architecture Biennale and were honored with awards such as the Klimahouse Wood Architecture Prize in the category experimental architecture.

Dr. Francesco Clemente: Mia Hand Prensilia, Italy Dr. Francesco Clemente is the Managing Director of Prensilia SRL, a company manufacturing robot hands for prosthetics and robotics. He received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2012, and the Ph.D. in BioRobotics from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2016. During the PhD studies, his research activities focused on the design, development and testing of wearable devices for restoring sensory feedback to upper limb amputees wearing a prosthetic hand. He has been collaborating with Prensilia since 2013 and has a wide experience in design and development of mechatronic systems for prosthetics. He filed 2 patents on this topic and authored more than 30 peer reviewed scientific papers on scientific journals in the field of prosthetics and robotics. He has been working in several EU and nationally funded R&D projects. Prensilia is currently working on both the medical devices and robotics field, two areas in which it is applying its expertise in the development of robotic hands and mechatronic systems.

Juri Troy: Straw Flea Juri Troy Architects, Austria Shortly after his diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna he opened his own office in 2003. The focus is on a holistic approach to architecture with not only energy efficient but also climate neutral and resource-safeing concepts. Projects were awarded with the Green Good Design Award, Greenbuilding FrankfurtRheinMain Award, International Chicago Athenaeum Award, several Timber Construction Awards and Energy Efficiency Awards. From 2020 he held a professorship at the HFT Stuttgart and from 2023 at the TU Vienna. Photo: © Antek Troy

Zoran Jedrejcic: Dolmen System Zoran Jedrejcic Design Studio, Croatia / Serbia Zoran Jedrejcic is a Designer and Art Director from Split, Croatia, with an Italian background. After seven years of fruitful cooperation with Ettore Sottsass, he opened a design studio in Milan, and recently, another one in Belgrade. He has designed for many international brands, such as 3M, Artisan, Molteni&C, Dada Cucine, Fratelli Guzzini, Gir, Nambe’, Segis, Superfos, Volumen, Woak, and Zavar, among others. He has won many awards, including Red Dot – Best of the Best, IF Design Award, Design Plus, Compasso d’Oro, German Design Award, Dezeen Award, and BIG SEE Award, and his works have been exhibited in prestigious museums such as MAK Wien, MART Rovereto, ICA Boston, MoMA NY, and Ozone Centre Tokyo among others. Recently, he has been awarded as BIG SEE Visionary for the year 2021. Simultaneously with his career in design, he has been engaged as a visiting professor at ISIA-Florence, NABA-Milano, IAAD-Torino, and the Academy of Fine Arts-Belgrade. Currently, his major goal is to develop and internationalize the Regional Design Scene & Industry, through his engagement as the Art Director of the Belgrade Furniture Fair and Zagreb Design Week, as well as of several regional Design Brands.