When	Where	Participants
12.06.2026	Main Exhibition	9
12:00 – 17:00	12 George Washington St

 

The workshop operates at the point where conceptual art and practical design begin to diverge. It asks whether design—particularly signage in urban, shared environments—is ever purely functional. From “ethnic” supermarkets to multilingual signage systems in banks and public institutions, the city is structured through codes that organize access and visibility. These codes can enforce exclusion, control, and hierarchy, but they also produce forms of community and belonging.

At the core of the workshop is a process of identifying functional elements within everyday design practices and reappropriating them to construct and share narratives. In other words, we look at how design communicates—and how it can be used to tell stories.

The workshop aims to open up conversations around shared spaces—conversations we engage in daily as a collective, and from which many of our projects emerge. Together, participants will develop a “quote” of a shared space, drawing on explorations of Sofia’s urban constellations. This space is not predefined by form (a streetfront, supermarket, or government office), but instead understood through a single criterion: that it is inherently shared.

Center for Peripheries is a collective operating at the intersection of social research and space-based art. It was founded by three artists who stem from Europe’s different peripheries (the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Balkans), but reside and collaborate in Berlin—one of Europe’s most significant centers, and the EU’s (statistically) most populous city—which has throughout recent history embodied the dialectic of East and West. Aiming to explore the relations of power and the mechanisms of othering within and beyond the far ends of this dialectic, Center for Peripheries operates through interventions themed around different notions of everyday life, expanding them into analyses of wider political contexts. 

Current members of CfP are Roshanak Amini and Uroš Pajović.

Please note that your place is only reserved at the moment you have already paid for your ticket. This can be done via online payment or on-site at the KO-OP art space.