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.

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

A Creative Europe cooperation project that brings together artisans, designers, and lakeside communities across Europe to explore how humans and water can coexist in a more sustainable and imaginative way. At its heart is a simple but powerful question: What can the lakes teach us about interconnection, regeneration, and repair?

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.