Summer School
CLASS 2024: WaterSchool
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Two special exhibitions are open this season, in two different locations! Delve into “Plant Fever. Towards phyto-centred design” at the Waterside Palais in Pillnitz — Dresden, celebrating plants and creativity. Meanwhile, at Schloss Hubertusburg in Wermsdorf, be captivated by “WATERSCHOOL: A Speculation in Four Seasons,” an exploration of water’s profound impact on our lives.
Network
The Transcultural Academy “Futurities” 2023 of the cross-collections Research Department of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) invites the public to participate in open formats of the Assembly School. It also welcomes its attendees to visit the exhibition We Show What We (Don’t) Know: Images as Research as part of the Academy at the Japanese Palais in Dresden.
Network
Room for Change is an invitation to change perspective, question harmful agri-cultural practices and look at plants as allies for militant and poetic design scenarios. Spanning material experimentations, fashion items, products, performances, as well as videos and photos, the installation highlights the design and narrative potential of plants and reveals stories of interdependence, empowerment, resilience, but also exploitation, overconsumption and colonisation. The featured works were produced by the participants of The School of Phyto-centred Design, the 2023 summer programme curated by d‑o-t‑s for the Design Campus at Pillnitz Palace & Park (Dresden, Germany).
Lab
Learning from the Object. Arts and crafts schools and their collections of teaching materials
Museum
There will be a special program for the opening of Plant Fever on the 29th April 2023, where we dive even deeper into the plant cosmos
The DESIGN CAMPUS is a curatorial-driven, interdisciplinary, and future-oriented platform for rethinking the world’s biggest questions through design practices and culture.
Each year, as part of its six-week summer school program, the DESIGN CAMPUS offers a series of one-week workshops, led by world-renowned creative professionals. The school is open to anyone with an inquisitive mind and a burning desire to change the world by design.
LABs are curatorial-driven, innovative projects promoting multidisciplinary approaches and research. They inform practice in the field of design and enable the development of new strategies and special projects in the museum.
