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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.

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).

Learning from the Object. Arts and crafts schools and their collections of teaching materials

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

Last Friday we discussed with the project partners of the MADE IN Platform and many invited guests about nothing less than the future of crafts — about collaborations with design, technology, research, about knowledge transfer and intangible cultural heritage, about crafts and their social impact as well as new technologies in crafts.

Kick-off Conference MADE IN Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design

Learning with Objects. Schools of Decorative Arts and their Educational Collections

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2

We were very happy to welcome the #106 edition of ​“Undsonstso” in Dresden at Pillnitz Palace and Park. It is a platform that brings together all of Dresden’s creative talents. Every four weeks for one evening, small keynotes are held for everything that is worth telling and rousing about what is happing around town.

Super Vernaculars, the theme for BIO27, explores a growing and ambitious movement that takes inspiration from vernacular design and architecture to shape a radical vision for a more responsive and resilient future.

We are pleased to announce this year’s online conference ““Pioneers of Design Education”, organised by the Design Campus of the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in cooperation with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

The Design Campus awards scholarships for their Summer School as part of German Design Graduates. Vote now for the finalists!

The Dresden Network and Research Project calls for contributions on the topic ​“International Perspectives on Schools of Decorative Arts before the Bauhaus” for its annual online conference.

London Design Biennale gave out a ​“special commendation” to ​“Spoon Archaeology — a first in the festival’s history!

In collaboration with Vienna Design Week, we’re offering three full scholarships for a workshop of your choice! Apply now!

This years entry to LDB takes a closer look at plastic cutlery, its design history and ecological consequences. Curated by Thomas A. Geisler, designed by Peter Eckart and Studio Kai Linke.

In cooperation with German Design Graduates, we’ve awarded six full scholarships to this year’s design campus! 

Detailed research on the history of German Schools of Decorative Arts in the long 19th century is long overdue. Therefore, the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Dresden State Art Collection is initiating a locally, regionally, nationally and transnationally oriented network