Dive into our Online Exhibition to meet our community
Nearly 500 Creative Talents and growing!
The Distributed Design Platform’s Online Exhibition is blossoming, now featuring nearly 500 creative talents from across the world. This growth in the past year is a testament to the impact of the Distributed Design platform network – an ever-evolving space for designers, makers, and innovators who are shaping the future of design and production.
More than just a space to exhibit a pool of Creative Talents and their work, this hub has become a meeting point, essential for creative minds to exchange knowledge, collaborate, and inspire each other.
Why an Online Exhibition?
Since its inception, the Distributed Design Platform has brought together individuals and organizations to create a cross-disciplinary network, cultivating a growing ecosystem where ideas travel seamlessly across borders while production remains local, regenerative, and open.
The Online Exhibition serves as both a showcase and a reflection of this journey. It highlights a wide range of projects that challenge conventional design processes, integrating open-source practices, circular economy principles, and community-driven innovation. From regenerative materials to decentralized manufacturing, each project within the exhibition tells a story of ingenuity, resilience, and collaboration.
Our Platform’s Online Exhibition, found here, functions as a dedicated, high-quality, digital portfolio for Creative Talents to help them gain exposure online within and beyond the Distributed Design field.
The Online Exhibition aspires to be much more than an archive of our community. It is a dedicated portfolio that works to:
- Establish links between Creative Talents and existing online production, including works available for purchase
- Connect visitors to likeminded Creative Talents and support featured Creatives to find collaborators within the ecosystem
- Increase the quality of digital visibility available to Creative Talents
- Showcase the plurality of Distributed Design practitioners and approaches
Each year, we ask our members to sponsor new Creatives from their local networks to join the Online Exhibition. In addition, we invite Creative Talents who participate in our activities, like the Distributed Design Awards and our annual Distributed Design publication. While Talents range in geographical origins– from Kenya to Iceland, Ukraine to Vietnam– and professions– from Natural Language Technology Specialists to filmmakers, graphic designers to biologists– they are united: each embodies the Distributed Design Platform values. That means, in some way or another, our Creative Talents are working openly, collaboratively, regeneratively, and ecosystemically.
Through Distributed Design, we have had the privilege of meeting and supporting countless talented individuals who are rethinking how we design for the present and future. In turn, the community itself has shaped the platform, bringing new perspectives, methodologies, and insights that continue to drive it forward. This shared knowledge, built over years of interaction and experimentation, is one of the most gratifying and valuable parts of our work.
Facilitating Connection
We have updated the Online Exhibition over the last three years. We have added searchable tags to Creative Talent profiles while also streamlining two types of profile listings. These efforts enhance Exhibition visitors’ ability to find Creative Talents of interest while making information more accessible.
Searchable Tags
The searchable tags were part of our 2024 platform ecosystem update, which you can read more about here. Creative Talent listings can now be filtered using thematic areas to help visitors find and connect with those working in certain areas.
The goal of this new function is to improve navigation and make our information more accessible so that visitors spend less time searching and more time connecting with information, Creative Talents, and opportunities they are interested in.
Listing Types
Having noted in earlier iterations that it was difficult to discern projects from designers and design collectives, we developed two profile listing types: project listings and designer (collective) listings. Each listing type has a standardized format to help visitors find information they might be interested in while simultaneously showcasing different aspects of a Creative Talent’s work. Particularly, both listing types now feature an “about the approach” section. This optional section is meant to help audiences understand how the designer/collective approaches the design or creative process(es) and relate to the Distributed Design Platform’s values (open, collaborative, regenerative, and ecosystemic) in their practice.
Plurality Pictured
Immense diversity can be seen in our Creative Talent pool, highlighting the reach of Distributed Design practices and our commitment to showcasing the plurality of our network. Several examples of Creative Talent listings on the Online Exhibition are included below.
Godot Studio
Godot Studio, listed as a designer/design collective, was included in the Online Exhibition in 2025. The founder, Julián Trotman, was sponsored by Distributed Design member, Espacio Open. Like many Distributed Design Creative Creative Talents, Julián is an interdisciplinary practitioner: his work combines crafts, arts, technology, and education. He also showcases a collaborative and ecosystemic approach, working with professionals and local groups within and beyond the Distributed Design community in projects like “There is a Thin Line.”
Kopli 93
Kopli 93 is a collective and community center in Tallinn, Estonia. Through hands-on activities that blend innovative technologies and heritage practices, the initiative supports commons-based peer production, like its sponsoring member, the P2P Lab. Regenerative and collaborative attitudes permeate their practices: the project highlights its cosmological approach to promote local resilience and self-sufficiency.
Inclusive Club Collective Kit
Founded by Daisy Dawson, the Inclusive Club Collective Kit is a design intervention and collective experience around neurodiversity. It provides a methodology and tools for creating a physical club and supports less tangible aspects, deliberately including support for developing relational practices. Sponsored by Pakhuis de Zwijger, Daisy participated in the Distributed Design mobility scheme and hosted a workshop at Happy Lab Vienna. The Kit’s profile showcases how our Creative Talents co-create processes and places, in addition to products, all while visibilising our diverse realities.
Ready to be featured?
Are you a young creative that embodies the Distributed Design Platform’s values? Are you interested in being featured on the Platform’s Online Exhibition? We’d love to hear about you. Please fill out this form or send an inquiry to info@distributeddesign.eu to find out more!