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Rijeka, Croatia
WHO WE ARE
WHO WE ARE
MEDS ‘Meeting of Design Students’ is an international design network.
MEDS ‘Meeting of Design Students’ is a non-political, non-profit, multinational organization run by students and young professionals for students and graduates of all design disciplines and like-minded individuals.
Engaged network members meet for workshops and events several times every year. For most events, newcomers and interested externals are welcome, too.
MEDS means interdisciplinary and cultural exchange, the collaboration between diverse backgrounds and the forming of friendships in a creative and unconventional environment.
MEDS aims to promote the positive impact of design in society as well as interdisciplinary and cross-border collaboration in design. MEDS is a place for designers to make social and professional connections, unlock their potential and use their talents out of their faculty.
WHAT WE DO
WHAT WE DO
MEDS as a community and non-profit organization is partly built upon a famous saying by Victor Papanek:
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. Design, in whatever form, whether products, buildings, patterns, interactions or graphics is about people. Designers design for people. They make for people. They care about people.
MEDS is about working together, the cultural and interdisciplinary exchange, the collaboration between diverse backgrounds and the forming of friendships in a creative and unconventional environment.
An international workshop that takes place each summer in a different country, focusing on various themes, topics and settings.
The main goal of this event was to take a step back after 14 years of MEDS existing, to redesign MEDS as a network, as well as its flagship annual summer workshop format.
The annual organizing meeting where active members from each department, national contacts and national teams meet to discuss the future and planning of MEDS Network.
MEDS Travel is an initiative to visit and discover new countries and the opportunity to learn through documentation and authentic experiences.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES
These were some of our major events in recent years.
RETREAT 2024
Wójtowice, Poland
WORKSHOP 2023
Gyumri, Armenia
Darjeeling – Pelling – Gangtok
India
WORKSHOP 2022
Zaragoza, Spain
WORKSHOP 2021
Silesia, Poland
WORKSHOP 2019
Spetses, Greece
PREVIOUS WORKSHOP DESTINATIONS
PREVIOUS WORKSHOP DESTINATIONS
MEDS was co-founded by Zana and Can in 2010 where they started off with an international workshop in Alanya, Turkey. When the co-founders decided to step back in 2011 they asked Joe to take over as international director. Since 2015, MEDS is organised by departments and its active members.
After the second workshop edition in Istanbul in 2011 MEDS officially expanded into the European continent with its first workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2012. With each year the Network and the ambitions grew to go outside of Europe. In 2018 the Workshop took place in Lebanon and in 2023 in Gyumri, Armenia.