{"id":9382,"date":"2025-02-17T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=9382"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:18","slug":"anna-horvath-selected-to-represent-malta-in-eco-solidarity-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/anna-horvath-selected-to-represent-malta-in-eco-solidarity-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Horvath selected to represent Malta in ECO Solidarity, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At a moment when the world grapples with climate change, bold new ideas are needed more than ever. It is with this urgency in mind that eight EU countries came together to announce the second edition of ECO Solidarity (https:\/\/www.wanteddesignnyc.com\/eco-solidarity-2021\/<\/a>), an international project, movement, and initiative focused on design solutions for some of the most pressing issues of our time.

Eight visionary designers were selected to share products and projects that thoughtfully consider positive social impact, design empathy, and sustainable materials, and narrative designer and architect Anna Horv\u00e1th is the  designer chosen to represent Malta in this project co-organized by Arts Council Malta in New York together with seven other New York based European cultural institutes, in partnership with WantedDesign Manhattan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Horvath\u2019s project was amongst the proposals received following an open call earlier this year. Her project Sorgi<\/em> was voted by WantedDesign<\/em> and the ECO Solidarity<\/em> Advisory Committee to be the project representing Malta in ECO Solidarity. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhat is most remarkable about Anna\u2019s Sorgi project is how it inhabits that juncture found between community, design and tradition. It speaks an environmental vernacular which though informed by a Maltese (and Mediterranean) narrative, is universal in nature.\u201d<\/em> Dr Falzon, Arts Council Malta in New York\u2019s representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A platform for designers to convene on issues relating to sustainability and the circular economy, ECO Solidarity\u2019s underlying objective is to unite design disciplines and industries around the globe in a resolve to create more ecologically-sound, human-centered designs that protect the environment, our health, and ecosystems – thereby restoring integrity in fractured communities and addressing the current humanitarian and climate hazards affecting our world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna is hoping that \u201cthis experience will encourage and inspire her endless search for new ways of recycling construction waste and creating objects which are symbols of the possibility of truly sustainable business.\u201d She believes that her project \u201chas the potential to trigger conversations about sustainability and circularity in the built environment while making a strong critical statement on the fastly-changing architectural landscape of Malta\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sor\u0121i is an ongoing research project about opportunities for circularity in Malta. Its first outcome is an outdoor furniture collection for public spaces, highly critical of the booming construction industry. Every piece is made of recycled construction waste, contributing to the need for tangible solutions to the sheer amount of discarded materials, thus promoting circularity and raising awareness on environmental issues within a larger audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThe \u2018Sor\u0121i\u2019 collection (\u2026) acts as a centerpiece for the universal discussion that concerns the delicate balance that exists between man-made and natural landscapes – the dichotomy between urban planning and the environment, or progress and preservation. \u2018Sor\u0121i\u2019 acknowledges the fact that construction waste places a huge demand on recycling, and embraces it, so that the same by-product of the irreversible consumption of natural resources, becomes a new resource.\u201d<\/em> Dr Jevon Vella, Arts Council Malta in NY\u2019s field expert  in ECO Solidarity\u2019s Advisory Board<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Horv\u00e1th \u2013 Aha Objects \u2018s project Sorgi <\/em>will feature in two events as part of ECO Solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018Sor\u0121i\u2019 collection is su<\/em>pported by Arts Council Malta – Project Support Grant<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


A. CLOSEUP  2021   MAY 18, 2021    <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLOSEUP https:\/\/www.closeup.design\/<\/a>, a virtual trade event organized the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) and WantedDesign Manhattan will include design product launches and project presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B. WantedDesign Manhattan  exhibition June 15\u2013August 15, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The projects will also be showcased as part of an online exhibition on wanteddesignnyc.com<\/a><\/strong>curated by Odile Hainaut in consultation with ECO Solidarity\u2019s Advisory Committee <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna is very excited and looking forward to this opportunity saying that \u201cto be showcasing at the ICFF \u2013<\/em> International Contemporary Furniture Fair<\/em>  and Wanted Design CLOSEUP<\/em> tradeshow, gives me the opportunity to introduce the objects to a new international audience and therefore strengthen the importance of the message locally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna will present her project at CLOSEUP on May 18th<\/sup> during the session entitled, Design with Empathy: Public Spaces and Social Impact<\/em>, alongside Atelier Ad Hoc (Romania), EOOS NEXT (Austria), and Herrmann & Coufal (Czech).  You can register to watch the trade show here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Artist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more info visit the artist\u2019s website at https:\/\/ahaobjects.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Horv\u00e1th is a narrative designer and architect who works in various disciplines of visual arts, also taking into account exhibition, installation, and furniture design.

She graduated with an MA in Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London and has participated in numerous design and architecture projects from small to large scale structures in London, Berlin, Lisbon, Budapest, and Malta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna\u2019s portfolio includes projects like the permanent exhibition at the prestigious Jewish Museum in Berlin, scenography for the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi, a pop-up store for Herm\u00e8s’Petit H<\/em> collection in Lisbon, and her first furniture collection that was launched during Paris Design Week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna forms part of different design teams and multidisciplinary collaborations. She is currently creating her playful design brand, AHA, which is a world of colours, textures, and narratives. Her designs aim to be more than purely functional objects – often there is a hidden social, cultural, environmental, or political commentary embedded within each design piece.

Currently she is working on private projects and her second collection: Sor\u0121i: outdoor furniture pieces made of construction waste for Malta\u2019s public spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ECO Solidarity partnering institutions and their designer nominees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eight organizing partners, all EUNIC New York member organizations, and their nominees are:  Arts Council Malta in New York, (Anna Horvath, AHA Objects); Austrian Cultural Forum New York in cooperation with Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and Vienna Business Agency (Lotte Kristoferitsch, EOOS NEXT); Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA  (Sep Verboom, Livable); Wallonie-Bruxelles International New York (Theresa Bastek and Archibald Godts, Studio Plastique); The Czech Center (Eduard Herrmann and Mat\u011bj Coufal, Herrmann & Coufal); Goethe-Institut New York, (Renana Krebs, Algaeing); Polish Cultural Institute New York, (Paulina Grabowska, NAS-DRA Conscious Design; and Romanian Cultural Institute (George Marinescu and Maria Daria Oancea, Atelier Ad Hoc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advisory Board<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The projects presented as part of ECO Solidarity have been selected by an international Advisory Board comprised of leading experts in design, sustainability, and social affairs. Malta is represented by Dr Jevon Vella, Deputy Director, MCAST Institute for the Creative Arts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arts Council Malta in New York is proud to present Anna Horv\u00e1th\u2019s Aha Objects with her project Sorgi at the WantedDesign Manhattan and ICFF online Trade Show – CLOSEUP 2021, this May and at the WantedDesign exhibition (Jun-Aug) as part of ECO Solidarity, an initiative of the European Union National institutes for Cultural (EUNIC) in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14478,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions\/14478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}