Trubarjeva cesta 72
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
- Environment/Sustainable development
Center Rog in Ljubljana, is the largest production hub in Europe catering to professionals in applied arts, design, crafts, and architecture, with a strong focus on sustainable development. Inaugurated in October 2023 and located in a revitalized bicycle factory, the hub offers 8,500 m² of shared production space for professionals and amateurs.
Center Rog is a public institution established and funded by Municipality of Ljubljana. We have 20 staff members employed and another 30 external coworkers. The yearly budget consisted of public and private sources is around 1,2 million €. With 9 production labs, 20 free-of-charge studios for creatives developing sustainable products, 5 residential apartments, an exhibition hall, shops for local designers, and indoor and outdoor public spaces open to everyone we organise and host a variety of different programmes and activities. We have more than 70 local and international partners, including universities, NGO’s and other cultural institutions.
Center Rog, operating in the former Rog factory, serves as a public production space for the cultural and creative industries, with emphasis on design and architecture. With its modern infrastructure, expertise and international connections, the Center Rog provides creators, organisations, businesses and the general public with a supportive environment for the development of innovative, socially beneficial projects that meet the challenges of the 21st century. We offer offering trainings in the field of diverse manufacturing technologies, creative workshops, and technical support for anyone wishing to develop their ideas into tangible products. Center Rog is devoted to supporting socially useful projects, while always adhering to the principles of environmental protection, circular economy and social justice.
Center Rog is committed to sustainable development goals, including reducing inequality.
Our programmes are focusing on digital fabrication technologies, applied arts and handicraft, design and architecture, cultural heritage, education, science and research activity, engineering, social entrepreneurship and cooperatives and international cooperation.
We offer accessible educational programmes that support responsible consumption and production; shared workshop facilities open to all; individual studios for creatives and residential studios.
Center Rog is a new creative hub focused on the cultural and creative sector in Slovenia and abroad with emphasis on design, architecture, engineering, and crafts. Center Rog’s experience and activities involve the development of the brand-new facilities itself, with 9 production labs equipped with state-of-the art technology and highly trained technological staff available for mentoring. Together with our partnership network we organize different workshops, training courses, summer schools, residencies etc. for children, creatives, organisations, businesses, professionals, or complete beginners. Currently Center Rog employees 30 mentors who are all highly experienced craft experts, catering to the needs of more than 1200 members of Center Rog community.
Center Rog is currently one of the partners in a CREA funded programme titled Made in Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design. This is a research, design, and heritage initiative encouraging collaboration and knowledge exchange between traditional craftspeople and contemporary designers, as well as other experts in the fields of culture and science. The aim of the project is to highlight new material research approaches and other design processes related to topics like the degradation of natural resources, extraction, and models of sustainable production.
We organize a yearly international event titled RogDesignDays where we explore sustainability challenges through a youth creative sprint, a forum with like-minded organizations, and an exhibition of products developed in our production labs.
Center Rog would like to support and promote intercultural dialogue and search for new possible partners and collaborators. Every year we publish an international call for programme partners focusing on educational activities, summer schools, creative workshops etc. We wish to develop lasting exchange programmes with organisations offering creative residencies. Finally, we are also open to partnerships in developing new EU funded projects.