When Did We Stop Playing? Forget all you know about interior design.

A hands-on design talk by Dani Schneider & Kristina Balaz exploring how cultural perspective transforms the way we see, question, and design space. @ TUMBLINGER Creative Hub und Kreativ München

There comes a moment, somewhere between childhood and professional life, when we stop asking “What could this be?” and begin asking “What is it supposed to be?” We learn the rules, and those rules give us a sense of safety. Yet in that safety, we often lose something important: our instinct to explore and discover.

This session is an invitation to let go of that certainty, to unlearn, and to become curious again.

Dani Schneider (Brazil) and Kristina Balaz (Slovakia) share a studio in Munich. Their work focuses on designing spaces, shaped by their international backgrounds and perspectives. In their own projects, they constantly navigate between unlearning and learning anew, and they invite you to be part of that journey.

Over the course of 90 minutes, we will carefully deconstruct the automatic ways in which we perceive the world around us, and reflect on the ideas that have been normalized by the cultures in which we grew up. In an age shaped by artificial intelligence, how can we protect and express originality? How can we design from a place of genuine identity, rooted in our personal histories and the unique ways in which we see the world as individuals?

Come ready to question, experiment, and play.