Lakescape

Explore

A Creative Journey Across Europe’s Great Lakes

Creative

Lake

regeneration

network

Lakescape is a creative platform exploring the relationships between water, design and people. Lakescape connects artisans and designers from the European Great Lakes of Vänern, Ohrid Lake and Balaton to investigate and highlight how humans and water can coexist in sustainable ways.

By prototyping and testing floating design markets and supporting designers to develop sustainable collections connected and friendly to lake life, we want to explore new cultural possibilities and cross border cooperation's that contribute to regeneration of lake ecosystems and lakeshore communities.

In times

When pollution, eutrophication, and over-tourism threaten Europe's lakes;
Where lakeshore communities face population decline and limited economic opportunities.

We are involving art and culture to help restoration and regeneration of lake-sites

LAKEscape

wants to

Connect creativity with sustainability

Our work revolves around four core pillars that bring communities, ecosystems and culture together.

Empower Creatives

Design & Craft for Sustainable Lakes

Supports design and craft professionals to research, prototype and represent new product lines related and friendly to lake ecosystems and resources.

Invent Lake-Friendly events

Floating Gallery Across Borders

Brings creative vibrancy in lakeshore communities by prototyping lake- specific cultural initiative LAKSCAPE floating market.

Set educational platform

Spreading voices of the Great Lakes

It educates about significance of the great lakes trough lectures, residencies workshops and summit, involving solutions that balance relations between human and the environment.

Lakescape Destinations

Promote Eco-Culture

Art as agent for Lake Regeneration

LAKESCAPE uses storytelling, film, and cultural events to highlight the importance of healthy lake ecosystems and encourage collective care for rural waterscapes.

Open

Call

Crafting sustainable futures by the lake

Deadline to apply

May 12, 2025

Product development and residencies

June–July 2025

Final Event

Floating Market,
August 15–16,
Lidköping, Sweden

The open call is closed

Lakescape

is about people, water and design

Through residencies, knowledge exchange, and public events, LAKESCAPE investigates how craftsmanship and design can reflect, reshape, and support more harmonious relationships with aquatic ecosystems. By anchoring the project on the shores of Europe’s great lakes—Vänern (Sweden), Ohrid Lake (North Macedonia), and Balaton (Hungary)—we recognize the lakes not as backdrops, but as living ecosystems and cultural landscapes that shape the form and meaning of our work.

We invite

designers and artisans working in a variety of disciplines and materials

(traditional craftsmenship but also innovative sustainable industrial design) - to submit Design Proposals that are envisioned with a friendly and fair connection between human and lake ecosystems.