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Social Design
Social design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society, government, and the economy. Social design is thus a response to a global growth economy and its consequences for humans and the environment: The means of production and resources are becoming scarcer, setting off discussions about the need to redesign social systems and living and working environments. Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping this social culture. 'Social Design' thus presents a long-overdue survey of current international positions of interdisciplinary breadth, ranging from new infrastructures to the re-conquest of cities by their inhabitants. Some twenty-seven projects in the areas of cityscape and countryside, housing, education and work, production, migration, networks, and the environment are framed by three research studies that trace the historical roots and foundations of social design and look at today's theoretical discourse as well as future trends.
Bogomir Ecker
"In his artist's book 'You're Never Alone', Bogomir Ecker interlocks installations and sculptures from the last 25 years. A comprehensive chronology combines descriptions of his works, quotations, and personal documents. The book collects material and makes the continuity of understanding visible" -- publication cover.
Dressed!
The interface between art harbors timeless fascination. Artists find themselves turning to fashion as a vehicle for reflecting on questions of cultural or social identity, a mirror of pertinent issues concerned with the body, politics, economics or ecology. Couturiers draw inspiration from art and its propositions to create unwearable sculptured apparel dramatically set against elaborate installations. Tracing the connections between art and fashion, this study explores over 100 artists and coutouriers in theme based dialogues on the multilayered aspects of dre
LithoMania
- Students from one of the gemstone capitals in the world explore the complex meaning and impact of gemstones - A critical examination of today's gemstone trade - Includes a cultural history of gemstones by Wilhelm Lindemann, a curator and author of numerous books on the jewelry trade Rare stones have fascinated people for thousands of years. Their extraction is never free of conflict, but at the same time the trading and processing of stones brings together people from the most remote regions of the world. In Germany, the town of Idar-Oberstein is considered a hub for gemstone trading and processing, and students come from all over the world to study and work here with rare materials. In Li...
Retrotopia
"Along with urban planning and architecture, design played a central role in shaping the socialist future. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, it was above all the issue of housing that became the yardstick of the successful implementation of visions of a better world. Beginning in Berlin with its early housing exhibitions which took place in an atmosphere that was shaped by political rivalry and the pathos of progress, this publication focuses on the (post-)Soviet satellite states. It explores the socio-political dimension of housing and the role of design between utopia, power and gender discourses"--
Connecting Afro Futures
The magalog takes up the positions presented in it from the two project hubs in Dakar and Kampala and expands on them with discursive and visual contributions such as essays, interviews, photo spreads, and illustrations.Fashion and hair in the African context as well as the question of Afro Futures that is posed in the title of the project are discussed and staged visually not so much from an ethnological perspective as from a decolonialised perspective on global developments in design.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Connecting Afro Futures: Fashion x Hair x Design at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (24 August - 1 December 2019).
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(How) do we (want to) work (together) (as (socially engaged) designers (students and neighbours)) in neoliberal times)?
Studio Experimentelles Design’s politically and socially committed approach through lectures, research, conversations, and project documentation. With today’s increasing income disparity, forced global division of labor, and neoliberal expansion of precariousness, a critical discussion about work is looming—even in the field of design. Since 2011, the Studio Experimentelles Design at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg has experimented with local design support as a contemporary practice. The student-led program advocates a community-based, cooperative approach to design. In the summer of 2020, the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin Design Lab #6 hosted Studio Experimentelles Design’s onli...
Porcelain
"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony’s revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain’s ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivaled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain’s uses multi...
Food Revolution 5. 0 Part 2
Nach dem Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg (MKG) verwandelt sich nun auch das Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in ein künstlerisch-wissenschaftliches Laboratorium, in dem neue Denk- und Praxismodelle zur Zukunft des Essens entworfen und diskutiert werden. Damit wird nicht nur das Ausstellungskonzept aus Hamburg in der Hauptstadt durch neue Arbeiten ergänzt, sondern auch das Thema als solches substantiell weiter gedacht. Die im zweiten Band vorgestellten Ideen und Visionen stammen von Designern, Künstlern und Wissenschaftlern, die nach Berlin eingeladen wurden, um vor Ort ihre ganz eigene Auseinandersetzung mit Ressource und Konsum unserer Nahrung zu definieren. Exhibition: Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany (18.05. - 30.09.2018).
