" Lakescape | Crafting Sustainable Futures by the Lake "
Lakescape | Crafting Sustainable Futures by the Lake
Lakescape explores the relationships between water, design and people
Image: Emma Harper on Unsplash
About Lakescape
Lakescape is a creative platform exploring the relationships between water, design and people. Lakescape connects artisans and designers from the European Great Lakes of Vänern, Ohrid Lake and Balaton to investigate and highlight how humans and water can coexist in sustainable ways. Lakescape will offer fully paid stipend as well as logistic support to 12 designers and artisans, winners of the open call, to develop design line that highlights relation between lakes and humans.
A Creative Europe cooperation project that brings together artisans, designers, and lakeside communities across Europe to explore how humans and water can coexist in a more sustainable and imaginative way. At its heart is a simple but powerful question: What can the lakes teach us about interconnection, regeneration, and repair?
The Open Call
Lakescape invites designers and artisans working in a variety of disciplines and materials (traditional craftsmanship but also innovative sustainable industrial design) —to submit Design proposals that are envisioned with a friendly and fair connection between human and lake ecosystems.
With this call, there is the opportunity to experiment, research, and prototype sustainable designs that enhance possibilities for the creative community and raise awareness of sustainability in lakeside environments.
Through LAKESCAPE, selected designers will:
- Develop their design line, connected/ related/ inspired or using of lake-life renewable resources,
- Be placed on a short residency in one of the 3 lake towns: Lidköping, Struga and Barnag , designed to exchange peer to peer knowledge with creative communities as well as to extend their knowledge about lake ecosystem characteristics of the 3 great lakes.
- Attend Lakescape floating market on the waters of Vänern, the largest lake in the EU — to present and sell your market-ready work in Lidköping, Sweden, on August 15–16, 2025.
- Be able to sell their work on Lakescape e-shop
- Be represented on the project catalogue disseminated to potential future customers and creative and cultural audience across Europe
INFO
AMOUNT
- Approx. 2500 EUR honorarium (in total with tax expenses)
- Approx. 750 EUR for production and material costs
- Travel, accommodation, and subsidies for short residency placement and for the floating market
APPLICATION DEADLINE
May 12, 2025
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
ELIGIBILITY
Lakescape invites applications from designers, artisans and craftspeople who:
- Are legally residing in a country participating in the Creative Europe Programme, including:
EU Member States
Non-EU associated countries: Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Tunisia. Full list here.
- Work in manual, material-based disciplines, traditional or contemporary
- Are interested in ecology, sustainability, lakeshore cultures, and place-specific narratives
- Are open to collaborative processes and community engagement
- Are committed to finishing ready made product line to be represented in the frame of the project on the floating market and online
- Are available for a 5-7 day residency in June or July 2025, and for traveling to the Floating Market in August.
APPLICATION DETAILS
For the application details please visit Lakescapes' official website.
NOTE
*The calls that are listed on our website are shared for informational purposes and are sometimes subject to change. Please visit the organization's official open call website for up-to-date information.
DEADLINE
2025-05-12
TYPE OF SUPPORT
Public funding
FUNDING COUNTRIES
All EU Countries