This exhibition, taking place at the faculty “farm”, on the premises of the Chair of Textiles and Fashion Design, OTGO, i.e. in Mitnica (“Toll Booth”) in front of the faculty, presented a wide range of projects on fashion design, textiles design, textile interior design, fashion accessories and fashion styling.

The exhibition was open to visitors from 22 September to 22 October, 2022.

More about: FOLKLORA. FAVNA. Na kmetiji – www.kotofolio.si

Coordinators: Petja Zorec, MA, and Arijana Gadžijev, MA, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering

We will organise a wide range of events in Mestni trg Square and many other locations in Ljubljana. You are cordially invited.

Species are the basic unit of biodiversity. Without species, we could not talk about nature, we could hardly enjoy its benefits and protect ourselves from disease.

Vernacular names of species are helpful, but inadequate. For example, Slovenian vernacular names for the English primrose include bičica, brkončica, igelc, jaglič, piskalica, žoltica, trobentica…

While a plethora of names enriches the language, it also gives rise to communication issues. This is why natural scientists of today use a two-part scientific taxonomy of species that was introduced in the 18th century by Carl von Linné, a Swedish scientist. The English primrose thus has the scientific name Primula vulgaris.

Less famously, his contemporary working in Slovenia, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, contributed substantially to Linné’s classification with scientific descriptions and species names from the territory that is now Slovenia.

2023 will present an opportunity to mark the 300th anniversary of Scopoli’s birth and the historic role of this scientist of world renown working in Slovenia.

Researchers of the Biotechnical Faculty will celebrate the anniversary of his birth with activities including an interactive presentation on the historical development and importance of biological systematics, an exhibition, an informative brochure, guided workshops as part of biology classes in selected schools and a guided tour and discussion during the European Researchers’ Night.

Coordinators: Peter Trontelj, PhF, and Iztok Tomažič, PhD, Biotechnical Faculty

EVENING EVENTS

18:00                     The Hubbub of the Movements of Animals and Life, creative workshop

Coordinator: Irina Milisav, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, choreographer: Sinja Ožbolt.

18:30                     The Flute Trio of the Faculty of Arts and the Primorje Academic Choir Vinko Vodopivec, conductor Jakob Barbo, concert

19:15                        FOLKLORE. FAUNA.

Coordinators: Petja Zorec, MA, and Arijana Gadžijev, MA, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering

CONCERTS

20:00                     Angel’s-Ex, rock concert

21:00                     Bossa de Novo, jazz concert

Free entry.

A village turns into a big stage serving multiple roles as the carnival develops, enabling a group of young boys to play their parts. They are merely the main collective actor in wider socio-dramatic action, where men, women and fantastic beings perform in various ways. The village is not only a stage; it can also be an audience, actor, director or dramatist. The villagers are usually aware that they are creating a show, a carnival performance, and that they are part of it.

Wassailing with the “Goat”

Mimetic plays with an animal mask as the main prop can be found throughout the world and are very diverse; they often appear in Central and Eastern Europe as well.

The goat mask is one of the most widespread; it is related to a character called “rourita” or “blind man”, whose existence in Europe is attested even in ancient times.

Rituals, myths and legends from the Daco-Romanian area are part of the hunter culture, but “a hunter ideology can become a pastoral ideology”, as explained by Mircea Eliade, one of the most prominent Romanian anthropologists.

In the Carpathian lands along the Danube, the image of an animal, achieved by dressing as one and performing a simple show, represents aspects from the lives of animals living in the region. The theatrical image of the goat, however, represents a mythological animal that is separated from reality and normally serves as an abstract symbol for soil fertility.

Coordinator: Ioanna-Carmen Jieanu, PhD, Faculty of Arts

Legislation on working with such organisms is very strict and detailed, particularly in Western countries. However, as a rule, it requires the killing of all laboratory animals involved in the experiment and the destruction of the animal remains produced.

The art installation was not intended to moralise and judge the exploitation of animals for scientific research purposes, nor the people who oppose it. The work of art aimed merely to encourage dialogue and reflection in the public and to raise awareness in society about the background of cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and other preparations used in everyday life.

More about: https://kersnikova.org/posts/events/all/tim-prezelj-die-evolutionsbremse

Coordinator: Uršula Berlot Pompe, PhD, Academy of Fine Arts and Design

Author: Tim Prezelj, Faculty of Education

The material, technique and concept of each project by a student or group of students were decided by each artist.

The project encouraged students to employ new ways of creation and reflection about the topics of corporeality, perception, awareness, instinctiveness and ethics in relation to animals, also presenting the importance of art in addressing this theme.

The exhibition, held at the Slovenian Museum of Natural History, presented the works of art created within the project as a single joined composition.

More about:

https://www.pms-lj.si/si/razstave/vitrine-cetrtletja/3020

www.aluo.uni-lj.si 

Activity coordinator: Uršula Berlot Pompe, PhD, Academy of Fine Arts and Design

Younger and older visitors tested how much sugar is in each type of food by determining how many bags of sugar will weigh down packets of pictured food items and sweet drinks. The role of fiber in the diet was also clearly shown, as well as the benefit of certain carbohydrates in the diet, the types of sugar in food, drinks, fruit and vegetables and what affects the uptake of sugar into the blood.

Through the specially developed Sweetscope game, children and younger teenagers guessed while moving about how the quantity of sugar in the diet of animals and whether bees can make honey from sugar water. The game attracted mainly younger teenagers.

Researchers at the Faculty of Medicine plan to adapt the game for individual or group play via the website by the end of 2022.

Coordinator: Irina Milisav, PhD, Faculty of Medicine

The lecture and discussion on this topic were conducted by Tadej Pavković, the author of an excellent master’s thesis on cattle in Carniola, Carinthia and Styria in the 16th and 17th centuries, and Žiga Zwitter, PhD, an assistant professor and researcher at the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, who is co-authoring a scientific monograph on the environmental history and historical ecology of species-rich meadows in the Alps in the last thousand years with Leonid Rasran, PhD, a Viennese botanist.

Tadej Pavković, MA, and Žiga Zwitter, PhD, presented a short selection of research approaches and results on the history of species-rich meadows and livestock over a long period of time, including how to correctly interpret them interdisciplinary and what we can learn from this for a more sustainable future.

Coordinators: Žiga Zwitter, PhD, and Tadej Pavković, Faculty of Arts

PROGRAMME

10:00                    Interviews with scientists, artists and researchers

From 10:00 onwards, we will play video recordings of interviews with scientists, artists and researchers with whom talked Mateja Gaber, PhD, and Blažka Müller, PhD, from the Faculty of Arts.

11:00                     Opening Ceremony of the Night

Brass trio of the Accademy of Music: Jernej Maček, trumpet, Gašper Okorn, horn, Žan Kopše, trombone

Flute trio of the Faculty of Arts: Urška Klančar, Helena Jeretina, Ana Sodja

12:00                    Plucking Cat / Animals in Music: Japan, the sounds of traditional musical instruments and musical puzzles

Performers: dr. Nagisa Moritoki Škof, PhD, and Klara Hrvatin, PhD, Faculty of Arts.

13:00                    Shekuza, electronic music concert   

14:00                    Animals and Humans: What Do Anthropologists Do? Film and discussion

Coordinator: Ana Sarah Lunaček Brumen, PhD, Faculty of Arts

15:30                     Species-Rich Meadows and Cattle in Slovenian Alps in the Last 500 Years

Coordinators: Žiga Zwitter, PhD, and Tadej Pavković, MA, Faculty of Arts

16:00                     Masks and Wassailing in Romanian Traditions, symposium

Coordinator: dr. Ioanna-Carmen Jieanu, Faculty of Arts. The event was held in English.

17:00                     The Ethics of Animal Research Models in Pharmacy and Medicine, round table

Coordinators: Borut Božič, PhD, Matjaž Jeras, PhD, Faculty of Pharmacy

18:00                     The Hubbub of the Movements of Animals and Life, creative workshop

Coordinator: Irina Milisav, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, choreographer: Sinja Ožbolt.

18:30                     The Flute Quartet of the Faculty of Arts and the Primorje Academic Choir Vinko Vodopivec, conductor Jakob Barbo, concert

19:15                        FOLKLORE. FAUNA.

Coordinators: Petja Zorec, MA, and Arijana Gadžijev, MA, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering

20:00                     Angel’s-Ex, rock concert

21:00                     Bossa de Novo, jazz concert