Gal Grobovšek, Iza Oblak, Rudolf Zver, Dora Čičin-Šain, Anže Ceglar, Edo Rapaić, Ana Maria Milić, Bruno Žgajner Šarm, Nikola Toplek, Nikolaj Srdić Kranjc and Marija Stančić

The nominated authors for the title Promising INTERIOR 2024 are participants from four groups of the international summer school (p. s.) New European Bauhaus and New Technologies (August 18–23, 2024), organized by the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Industrial Design, University of Ljubljana, and the Design Study at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb. The summer school took place in the Istrian town of Motovun. The mixed groups of industrial design and architecture students and mentors primarily consisted of master’s students from both universities. The mentor team included architects/interior designers serving as guest critics. Throughout the summer school, participants received support from experts in the field of artificial intelligence. The use of artificial intelligence was a mandatory programmatic starting point, as was the consideration of the location, which defined the space of the interior with all the architectural fabric located within the Motovun city walls.

Thus, subtle spatial interventions were created that contextually relate to the historical layering of the town and the current challenges posed by new ways of living and, primarily, the hospitality industry. One of the nominated tasks addresses and spatially highlights the “living water” that invisibly follows the streets and squares, today drawing attention primarily through sound. Another task “confronts” the privacy of the population, which slips through the building stock of the town. The third task revives and presents a public space for the traditional ritual of burning the past year in a new way, while the fourth nominated task highlights fleeting intimate ambiances, whose building block is the morning fog, a characteristic companion of Motovun.