GoinGreenGlobal International Design Week 2026
20 March – 1 April
The Faculty of Design is proud to announce the upcoming edition of GoinGreenGlobal 2026 – International Design Week, which will take place from March 20th to April 1st.
GoinGreenGlobal is a long-standing international academic and professional event that brings together distinguished practitioners, researchers, and lecturers from across Europe. Throughout one intensive week, the Faculty becomes an open platform for knowledge exchange, interdisciplinary dialogue, and collaborative exploration of contemporary design challenges.
GGG 2026 Programme:
GoinGreenGlobal is a thematically structured international design week dedicated to addressing current global challenges through design.
The programme integrates key areas of expertise, including:
- Interior Design
- Visual Communication
- Fashion and Textile Design
- Design Management
- Sustainable Materials and Circular Practices
- Urban Innovation and Inclusive Design
The event connects academic research with professional practice, encouraging critical thinking and forward-looking perspectives on sustainability, resilience, and socially responsible design.
The International Design Week includes:
- International lectures delivered by leading academics and industry professionals
- Intensive workshops designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students
- Project presentations and exhibitions
- Design Talks and roundtable discussions
- A closing networking event fostering institutional and professional collaboration
This year’s edition welcomes distinguished guests from the United Kingdom, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Poland, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia.
Among the invited experts:
Lynne Elvins
Founder, Design Rally (United Kingdom)
Specialist in design thinking methodologies and strategic design management implementation.
Prof. Dr. Dominik Walche
Head of Product Management | Innovation and Marketing
Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (Austria)
Dr. Hena Ali, PhD
London College of Communication,
University of the Arts London (United Kingdom)
Researcher in service design and sustainable urban futures.
Prof. Dragan Ćalović, PhD
Dean, Faculty of Contemporary Arts (Serbia)
Jorge Miravalles Ovejero
Burgos School of Art and Design (Spain)
Marta Leticia Sanchez Cardete, PhD
Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny Valencia (Spain)
Ana Mª Delgado Jarana
Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny Valencia (Spain)
Emil Saryusz-Wolski, D.Arts in Industrial Design
Lodz University of Technology (Poland)
Marie-Louise Rosholm
Textile Consultant and Designer
Studio MLR (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Prof. Chiara Cibin
Head of Product Design and Care Design
Bologna Academy of Art (Italy)
Prof. Cecilia Bione
Professor of Product Design, Ecodesign and Interior Design
Bologna Academy of Art (Italy)
Anne Smits and Jolien Damen
Researchers
Thomas More University of Applied Sciences (Belgium)
Representatives of International Balkan University (North Macedonia):
Teaching Assistant Faton Kalisi
Assist. Prof. Dr. Arbresha Ibrahimi
Assist. Prof. Jasna Grujoska Kuneska
Assist. Prof. Vesna Grujoska
Ivana Biočina
Institute for Sustainable Fashion (Croatia)
In addition, respected Slovenian professionals and academics will contribute to the programme, including Tomato Košir, Jernej Kos, Dr. Špela Leskovic, Aleš Košak, Prof. Dr. Djordje Stanojević, Petra Marinko, and faculty researchers from the Faculty of Design.
GoinGreenGlobal 2026 is intended for:
- Undergraduate and postgraduate students
- Academic staff and researchers
- Institutional and project partners
- Members of international consortia
- Erasmus+ students
- Professionals and stakeholders interested in sustainable and inclusive design
The event fosters intercultural exchange, strengthens international collaboration, and reinforces the role of design as a transformative force in contemporary society.
8:30 - 12:30
Venue: Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Visual Communications, 1st Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Beyond Screens and Structures: Applying Biophilic Design from Built Space to UX
Workshop
Lucija Primožič Erjavec, M.A. Design, Creative Strategy Manager & Interior Designer, PhD Candidate
10:00 - 14:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Creative Industries, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Design Thinking for Design Doing
Workshop
Lynne Elvins (Design Rally, UK)
12:30 - 16:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Visual Communications, 1st Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
DESIGN MANAGEMENT SLOVENIA
Patterns of Nature in Design: Form-giving Principles and Patterns in the Universe and the Human Being
Workshop
Sr. Lect. Luka Mancini, M.A. (Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
16:30 - 20:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Creative Industries, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Implementing Design Management
Workshop
Lynne Elvins (Design Rally, UK)
16:30 - 20:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Experimental and Sustainable Photography
Workshop
Marta Leticia Sanchez Cardete, Professor of Photography at the EASD Valencia, Phd in Fine Arts and researcher in experimental and sustainable photography (Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny, Valencia, Spain)
and
Ana Mª Delgado Jarana, Photography teacher at the EASD Valencia and researcher in experimental and sustainable photography (Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny, Valencia, Spain)
9:00 - 16:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Creative Industries, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Green Meets Cool Contemporary Marketing of Circular Design
Workshop
Prof. Dr. Dominik Walcher (Head of Product Management | Innovation and Marketing, Department Design and Green Engineering, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria)
10:30 - 12:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Visual Communications, 1st Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
CANCELED
CANCELED:
Visual Commentary: An Insight Into the Desire to Contribute, and the Struggle for an Effective Visual Critique
Tomato Košir (Tomato Košir s.p., Slovenia)
10:00 - 14:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
DESIGN MANAGEMENT SLOVENIA
Brand Building
Workshop
Lynne Elvins (Design Rally, UK)
16:30 - 20:30
Venue: House of Design Management, HDMI 1, Gerbičeva 51, Ljubljana
BoråSpatial: Modular Greening Systems and Participatory Making Tools for Circular and Resilient Cities
Lecture
Emil Saryusz-Wolski, D.Arts in Ind. Des. (Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland)
17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Visual Communications, 1st Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
CANCELED
Visual Commentary: An Insight Into the Desire to Contribute, and the Struggle for an Effective Visual Critique
Lecture and Discussion
Tomato Košir (Tomato Košir s.p., Slovenia)
CANCELED
10:00 - 14:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Coworking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
DESIGN MANAGEMENT SLOVENIA
Achievements Of The Partnership In The Field Of Innovation, Brand Implementation, Award Acquisition, And The Achievement Of Objectives In Accordance With The Call For Proposals And The Contract
Jernej Kos, (VERTIKALA 7 Management, Slovenia)
9:00 - 12:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Creative Industries, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Green Meets Cool Contemporary Marketing of Circular Design
Workshop
Prof. Dr. Dominik Walcher (Head of Product Management | Innovation and Marketing, Department Design and Green Engineering, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria)
12:30 - 16:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Visual Communications, 1st Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Biophilia: Nature, Process and Contemporary Art
Prof. Dr. Djordje Stanojević, (Faculty of Contemporary Arts, Serbia)
15:00 - 19:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Creative Industries, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Designing with Circular principles vs Cradle to Cradle principles. Some talk - and more hands-on praxis
Workshop
Marie-Louise Rosholm, textile consultant & designer (Studio MLR, Copenhagen, Denmark)
16:30 - 20:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Visual Communications, 1st Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Design for sustainability
Workshop
Lynne Elvins (Design Rally, UK)
16:30 - 20:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Placemaking Beyond the City - The Jumelț Furnace Project
Lecture
Assoc. Prof. Arch. Maria Tămășan, PhD (Faculty of Design, `Aurel Vlaicu` University of Arad, Romania)
16:30 - 20:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Career Center, Second Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Service Design and Designing the Future: Inclusive, Safe and Sustainable Cities
Lecture
Prof. Dr. Hena Ali, PhD (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK)
10:00 - 10:45
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Biophilia: Nature, Process and Contemporary Art
INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN TALK
Assist. Prof. Dr. Petra Bole PhD (Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
Prof. Dr. Djordje Stanojević, (Faculty of Contemporary Arts, Serbia)
10:45 - 11:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Biomimicry
Sr. Lect. Luka Mancini, MA (Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
11:30 - 12:15
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
From Materials to Meaning - The Non-Tox Approach
Petra Marinko (Non Tox Uni Kum. Slovenia)
12:15 - 13:30
BREAK
13:30 - 15:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Holistic Experience of Urban and Interior Spaces
DESIGN TALK
Host:
Assist. Prof. Dr. Petra Bole PhD (Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
Participants:
Prof. Dr. Djordje Stanojević, (Faculty of Contemporary Arts, Serbia)
Sr. Lect. Luka Mancini, MA (Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
Petra Marinko
11:30 - 13:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Visual Communications, 1st Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Storytelling as a Tool for More-Than-Human Cities: The Ljubljana Case
Workshop
Bettina Wilk & Claudia Misteli (The Nature of Cities Europe)
13:30 - 17:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Creative Industries, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Designing with Circular principles vs Cradle to Cradle principles. Some talk - and more hands-on praxis.
Workshop
Marie-Louise Rosholm, textile consultant & designer (Studio MLR, Copenhagen, Denmark)
18:00 - 20:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Creative Industries, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Experimental and sustainable photography
Marta Leticia Sanc:hez Cardete, Professor of Photography at the EASD Valencia, Phd in Fine Arts and researcher in experimental and sustainable photography (Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny, Valencia, Spain)
and
Ana Mª Delgado Jarana, Photography teacher at the EASD Valencia and researcher in experimental and sustainable photography (Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny, Valencia, Spain)
16:30 - 20:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Visual Communications, 1st Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Care Design
Workshop
Prof. Chiara Cibin, Head of the Academic Course on Product Design and Care Design (Bologna Academy of Art, Bologna, Italy)
17:00 - 18:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Career Center, Top Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Collaborative PhD Initial Meeting in the Field of Creative Industries
Guests:
Prof. Nada Matičič Rožmanec (Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
Sr. Lect. Veronika Gruden Bole, MSc (Vice Dean for Quality Assurance and Social Responsibility, Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Rado Bohinc, PhD (President of EMUNI University, Slovenia)
Assist. Prof. Dr Petra Bole (Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
Dr. Hena Ali, PhD (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK)
Prof. Dr. Jaka VADNJAL, PhD, Head of Academic Affairs (EMUNI University, Slovenia)
18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
CLOSING CEREMONY - URBAN FUTURE
Host: Prof. Nada Matičič Rožmanec (Dean of Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
"Urban Spaces for All"
Closing speech:
Prof. Nada Matičič Rožmanec (Dean of Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Rado Bohinc, PhD (President of EMUNI University, Slovenia)
Sr. Lect. Veronika Gruden Bole, MSc (Vice dean for Quality Assurance and Social Responsibility, Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
Dr. Aleksandra Goldys PhD, (EIT Climat KIC)
Marwan Hesham (Operations Specialist at IEREK, Egypt)
Stichting Built by Nature
Projection of film: Our Future: Built by Nature
Hosted by: Ben Walker, Head of Communications from Built by Nature
Projection of film: Presentations of student projects 3rd year Interior Design students from the subject Studio for Public Urban Design
Asst. Prof. Benjamin Hafner
Hafner arhitekti D.o.o.
World awarded projects
19:30
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Networking event with food design
9:00 - 15:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Creative Industries, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Creation and Work as Shaping the Idea of Sustainability
Workshop
Ivana Biočina (Institute for Sustainable Fashion, Institute for Sustainable Fashion, Koprivnica in Northern Croatia)
10:00 - 10:45
Venue: Faculty of Design, Lab for Visual Communications, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
Democratising Urban Planning Through Immersive Technologies: A Practice-Based Study Of Technology-Supported Participatory Design
Presentation
Anne Smits and Jolien Damen, Researchers At Thomas More University Of Applied Sciences Mechelen-Antwerpen, Belgium)
10:00 - 17:00
Venue: Faculty of Design, Design Thinking LAB, Ground Floor, Dunajska cesta 129, Ljubljana
DESIGN MANAGEMENT SLOVENIA
Sustainability in Hospitality
LECTURE
Špela Leskovic (AKSL Arhitekti, Slovenia)
and
Aleš Košak (AKSL Arhitekti, Slovenia)
17:00
Venue: Domžale Gallery, Mestni trg 1, 1230 Domžale
Municipal Space Renovation Projects in the Municipality of Domžale
OPENING OF STUDENTS EXHIBITION
Mentor: Asst. Prof. Benjamin Hafner (Faculty of Design, Slovenia)
Authors: Interior Design Students
Rebeka Fijavž
Patricija Boben
Ana Kremesec Mrkalj
Neža Stapančič
Luka Oblak
Nejka Štefan
Anna Stojan
Lejla Goretić
Emma Koščak
Kaja Žnidaršič
Asija Hamulić
Eva Raztresen
Ana Flere Gorjup
Gala Mihajlovska
Gael Zorjan König
Špela Vehar
Ajda Erčulj
Nela Zajec Genorio
