Sunday, 3 September 2006 | Levent OZLER

20th Biennial of Industrial Design: BIO 20

On 5 October 2006 the 20th Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO 20) will open at the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, marking the event's forty-fourth year. Awards will be granted for the best design achievements. The international exhibition will be open to the public from 6 October to 5 November 2006, in the approximately 800 m2 of exhibition space at Fužine Castle, the home of the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana.

The official opening will take place at 8.00 p.m. on 5 October 2006. The exhibition will be opened by the Minister of the Economy, Mr Andrej Vizjak, and the speakers will be Janez Škrabec, chairman of the BIO 20 organising committee, and Danica Simšič, mayor of the City of Ljubljana.

BIO 20 will include 350 exhibits from 17 different countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA and Slovenia. The exhibits will be presented in three groups: A - products (232 exhibits), B - information systems (28 exhibits), C - corporate identity and design projects (90 exhibits). The majority of entries are from Slovenia and other European countries, with the USA the only non-European country to have submitted work. This year sees an increase in the number of exhibitor countries compared to the last Biennial, when only 13 countries were represented.

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