Veranstaltungen
Event Series: Design Lab #13
Exhibition
Material Legacies
Appointment
Thu., Nov. 3, 2022 6:00pm -Sun., Feb. 26, 2023
Venue
KunstgewerbemuseumAdmission
€ 8The exhibition »Design Lab #13: Material Legacies« at Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, opening on November 3rd, 2022, explores contingencies and ruptures between traditional crafts and the most recent developments at the crossroads of material research, design, engineering, and architecture. It brings together artifacts from the museum’s collection with work-in-progress installations by designers and researchers from the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« in order to initiate a dialogue about the historical, contemporary, and future conditions under which materiality unfolds.
By engaging with a series of different materials and techniques the exhibition encompasses both the problematization of unsustainable pasts and presents as well as the imagination of speculative material futures. Taking materiality as a starting point, each of the exhibits will investigate its sociocultural, economic, and political context in order to disentangle the multiple interrelations that arise from and with materials. As such »Design Lab #13: Material Legacies« aims to challenge the passive understandings of materiality and associate with the widening discourse on relational knowledge practices in arts, design, humanities, and social science.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a program consisting of round table talks with invited guests, hands-on workshops for kids and adults, and guided tours by the exhibiting researchers and designers.
Venue and Cooperation Partners
»Design Lab #13: Material Legacies« is part of the Design Lab exhibition series at Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, that since 2019, has invited selected design studios, students, and researchers to present current projects and to engage in discourse with the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts. The series is curated by Claudia Banz, curator for design at the Kunstgewerbemuseum. It is supported by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation).
Further information
Organizer: Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«
Scientific director: Claudia Banz, Michaela Büsse, Emile de Visscher
Further information on the event's website
Contact
MoA Public Relation Team
Phone: 0302093-66258
moa.public.relations@hu-berlin.de
Address
Matthäikirchplatz 10785 Berlin