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Lab: Archive

A Lab for Rapid
Prototyping

Curatorial-driven, the LAB is an innovation laboratory and incubator promoting research, multidisciplinary studies, knowledge exchange, and the advancement of complex ideas and networks. The LAB will inform practice in the field of design and enable the development new strategies and special projects in the museum.

Key research clusters include:

  • Creating Rapid Response Curatorial Strategies
  • Rethinking permanent collection displays
  • Proposing new ways of collecting and exhibiting design
  • Creating new opportunities/partnerships for the Museum
  • Creating new modes of curatorial work
  • Developing new types of collaboration among SKD museums
  • Exploring new platforms for public interaction
  • Serving as an incubator to develop new design projects within the digital strategy of the museum


The LAB will host a series of residencies, workshops, and partner events possibly leading to exhibitions, products or services, and publications. Its programme involves collaboration with local and international universities, companies, research institutions, scholars and partners from all over Germany and abroad. 

OFF TO THE CITY

Concepts for a New Design Museum in Dresden

Students from the Chair of Public Buildings at Dresden University of Technology transferred the »Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts« from its existing interim location in Pillnitz to the centre of the city as part of a design studio in the winter semester of 2020/21.

NewSpaceForPowerStationSite
OFF TO THE CITY

FIGURINES!

Contemporary ceramic conversation pieces for dinner table

The semester project of the University of Arts Berlin to reinterpretate ceramic figurines, that were on the tables of kings and queens as conversation pieces about 300 years ago 

FIGURINES!

Circular Design Challenge 2023

an International Summer Workshop under the umbrella of the New European Bauhaus

This 9‑day program will provide the latest insights, tools and methods for circular design in the fields of construction and product design and guide you in conception of innovative solutions for repurpose of end-of-life components.

Circular Design Challenge 2023

Nanotourism

Exploring the vicinity

An experimental educational program aiming to create full scale conceptual case studies of nanotourism through site-specific, participatory and locally-oriented processes.

Nanotourism

Spoon Archaeology

Excavating the past and precence of design practice

An exhibition on plastic cutlery, its design history, its material culture and ecological consequences. This exhibition presents a vast collection of plastic forks, knives and spoons, asking about their implications and possible alternatives in the face of an ecological crisis.

Spoon Archaeology

High-quality simplicity

Deutsche Werkstätten in China

This exchange program between two research-based institutions in China and Germany together with students, experts and other stakeholder will explore the relations between China and Germany in the field of furniture and interior design in the 20th century.

Franz Ehrlich, Modelle für die Anbaumöbel Typensatz 602, 1956, VEB Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau | © Kunstgewerbemuseum / SKD, Foto: Gunter Binsack
High-quality simplicity