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How to attract a Fridays for Future Generation and discount focussed society and make a step to the 21st century with Figurines? What are the issues of our time and can we create figurines and characters that suit us today?

The 2022 conference of the research network ​„Pioneers of Design Education. New Perspectives on German Schools of Decorative Arts before the Bauhaus“ hosted by the Design Campus, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, in cooperation with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, sheds light on the global history of design education, beginning with London and Vienna, extending the focus from wider Europe to Russia, India, China and the United States. The history of the Schools of Decorative Arts is a history of connections, exchange and mobility of people and ideas that can still inspire us today.

Izaskun Chinchilla Moreno (ES)

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Terraforma Festival, Ruggero Pietromarchi (IT)

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Sommerschool curated by Formafantasma

Where do metals come from? Are they the result of a bombardment of meteorites, added to our planet by lucky coincidence? How did the journeys of metals as traded goods change over time? And as we are facing a planetary exhaustion of resources, how will we source, displace, and use metals in the future?

Johanna Seelemann (DE, IS)

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Mood boards are very common in design practices, but their potential as a research practice is too often overlooked. This workshop reworks the use of mood boards as a collaborative research method.

Floriane Misslin (UK)

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Giuditta Vendrame (IT, NL)

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The workshop will investigate ceramic objects in the museum’s collection as vessels of memory. Drawing from the historical role of pottery in reinforcing cultural and political narratives, the participants will be invited to dissect the objects through theoretical and visual research and reassemble their findings into scenographies aiming to recontextualise the artefacts.

Irakli Sabekia (GE/NL)

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What stories are being told and untold through objects? What do we know and not know when we engage with wooden artifacts?

Giuditta Vendrame (IT, NL)

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The Untold River is a hands-on workshop that revolves around the making of a river-powered printing press. This ​“relational object” engages with the physical force of the river and is the key to inviting people into relation with the river. Together, participants will design and build the printing press, including the mechanism, handmade fonts, printing furniture, mobility, and the flow of how the object works in public.

Future Farmers (USA, BE)

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Plastic refers to materials of which the form is evolutive. In fact, form and material are inherently connected in the word itself, originating in the Greek word plastikos referring to something capable of being shaped or moulded.

Studio Plastique (BE)

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During the workshop ​„Comrade Animal“ the participants will explore the relationship between man and animals through artistic rappresentation, design and architecture. The process should help us to reevaluate the extremely anthropocentric matrix with which we have shaped the global habitat. The participants will be focusing on the production of three and bidimensional artefacts starting from a series of artworks from the museums collection.

Parasite 2.0 (IT, UK)

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Buro Belén will work and guide using their holistic philosophy stimulating research, collaborating with materials, working from a multi-dimensional point of view. Belén entices people to make ethical choices while embracing an all-inclusive scenario, from sustainable material development to researching potential production processes.

Buro Belén (NL)

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The program develops nanotourism case studies in close collaboration with local stakeholders and seeks to reveal hidden aspects of a particular context by establishing new synergies between the specificities of the place, its users, and locally available materials.

Artefacts can be cultural geographies if explored through the invisible technical, cultural, social, and geopolitical systems behind their existence. Preserved by museums, artefacts from different cultures, places, and time periods. Made of different materials and techniques, artefacts are starting points to understand our global history. And, most importantly, to critically question some urgent aspects of our shared reality.

Martina Muzi (IT, NL)

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Blickwechsel: Chiharu Shiota und das Wechselspiel von Innen und Außen, Sammlung Schenkung Hoffmann: Mehr hier

Spoon Archaeology, Deutschland-Beitrag von Kai Linke und Peter Eckart zur London Design Biennale 2021: Mehr hier

Jean-Pierre Latz. Fait à Paris, Einblicke in das Forschungs- und Restaurierungsprojekt: Mehr hier

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