Rooftop trio

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Trke oko Grge – jutarnji jogging kroz kvart

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Workshop 1:1

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Urban Interface Programme

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Custom Design – Production and Knowledge Exchan

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DANI OTVORENIH VRATA

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FABLAB – radionice

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PROGRAM LOKALNIH PARTNERA

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Zdravi ručak na brzaka

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Marija Gašparović and Igor Dugandžić-Cigo: We have met though photography and we would not be where we are today without each other

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Marija Gašparović and Igor Dugandžić-Cigo are recognizable faces of the Design District Festival Zagreb, and the festival is even more recognizable because of their photographs. Since the Festival’s first edition in 2016, they have been working together and capturing unrepeatable moments, giving the Festival its visual identity and growing together with it.

Architectural collective BIRO: Beginning of our collaboration is closely linked to the Design District Zagreb festival

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The Graphic Workers’ Trade Union House is a true talent fountain outpouring creative individuals in the district. We have started visiting their premises behind the renovated façade almost on regular basis to talk to some of them.

BORIS IVANČIĆ: Wine is a noble liquid, an achievement of civilization

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Boris Ivančić, whose Vivat wine stores have been an indispensable part of the Croatian wine market for the past 25 years, has retained his enthusiasm until today, combining it with high business and aesthetic standards.

HRVOJE ŠKURLA: Listening is desirable, being docile is not

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Hrvoje Škurla, a marketing creative director, but also a hands-on businessman when needed, currently rules the Pink Moon Agency, located in Ratkajev prolaz in Zagreb, with a firm hand. During the 18 years he has been in the profession, he has seen it all: he began working at the 101 Radio Station, did freelance work, worked in the Digitel Agency, and the successful agencies he has helmed include Buka and Fahrenheit (later merged with McCann).

LOVORKA SRŠEN: Team that believes in the project is common to all good projects in the field of culture

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Lovorka Sršen is the coordinator and main executive producer of the Design District Zagreb festival, and the projects on which she works include the production of various musical events and festivals, including the Motovun Film Festival. 

Maša Milovac: I gravitated to this neighbourhood because it has good energy

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Maša Milovac is an independent designer whose portfolio comprises a host of successful, often self-initiated projects that emerged as a result of her professional engagement within the Manufakturist collective or her independent work.

DORJA AND IVAN BENUSSI: If you make an obvious mistake, you have to be able to stand by it

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“We’re in the process of clearly defining what it is that we do and who we should talk to, as well as how and what to communicate altogether. In principle, we are interested in a wide context of design, since we, as a graphic designer with experience in photography and a product designer, are a strongly compatible combination.”

VLADIMIR DODIG TROKUT: I see the city as living organic tissue

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“As a space, the city itself is dead if there’s no possibility of active living in it, like the possibility that this neighborhood had. The exact reason I moved to Tomašićeva Street is that I found this potential here.

ZORISLAV PETRIĆ: We have to maintain contact with the world

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“We have a tendency to live in a balloon that can grow to become our ghetto, which is not good. A man has to sometimes take a tram ride to get a feeling about where exactly he lives.