Jan Boelen Artistic director
“I see the task of the museum in a city and in the region as like that of a power plant. You don’t go there every week either, but it’s needed to generate energy” - Charles Esche, Director Vanabbemuseum
MUSEUM House for contemporary art
The right MEDIUM for a MESSAGE
Z33 presents SOCIETAL THEMES NOT by showing ethical consequences NOR in offering solutions made by artists BUT by using a poetical and open visual language
Z33 uses POETRY AS STRATEGY NOT aiming for an unambiguous answer BUT provoking an occasion for doubt using DOUBT as an agent for awareness of complexity Z33 wants to operate as an awareness machine
NEW DEFINITIONS of design ?
Designing Critical Design
[a]
[b]
affirmative
critical
problem solving
problem finding
design as process
design as medium
provides answers
ask questions
futures
parallel worlds
fictional functions
functional fictions
design for production
design for debate
research for design
research through design
applications
implications
user
person
- a/b Dunne & Raby
DESIGNING CRITICAL DESIGN Technological Dreams Series: No.1, Robots Dunne & Raby
DESIGNING CRITICAL DESIGN Stofzuigerzak Meubel Jurgen Bey
DESIGNING CRITICAL DESIGN Car Mirror Marti Guixé
Design by Performance
Artwork / Design object
Design Act / Performance
Autonomous
Dependent on space, audience and audience reactions
Finished object
Process and change
Complete control by artist / designer
Elements of chance, deliberate letting go of control
— Design Performance — Performing Objects — Performing machines — Performing space
DESIGN BY PERFORMANCE Seeking comfort in an uncomfortable chair
DESIGN BY PERFORMANCE Running Mould Studio Glithero
DESIGN BY PERFORMANCE Running Mould Studio Glithero
DESIGN BY PERFORMANCE l'Artisan Electronique Unfold & Tim Knapen
DESIGN BY PERFORMANCE l'Artisan Electronique Unfold & Tim Knapen
DESIGN BY PERFORMANCE Woonmachine Laurent Liefooghe
ALTER NATURE
Understanding the Science
Designing
in order to Design
in order to understand the Science
ALTER NATURE : We Can Morphotheque Driessens & Verstappen
ALTER NATURE : We Can Acoustic Botany David Benqué
ALTER NATURE : We Can Acoustic Botany David Benqué
ALTER NATURE : We Can Growth Pattern Allison Kudla
ALTER NATURE : The Unnatural Animal Pigeon d'OrTuur Van Balen
ALTER NATURE : The Unnatural Animal Exhibition View
Design is exploring new relational elements:performative, pragmatic, programmatic, process-oriented, open-ended, experiential and participatory
Designers are connecting hardware and software in new ways.
And incorporate new ways of (social) networking, open source collaboration, and interactivity in to physical things.
OpenStructures
OPENSTRUCTURES THOMAS LOMMﾃ右 www.openstructures. net
OPENSTRUCTURES THOMAS LOMMﾃ右 OS Parts
OPENSTRUCTURES THOMAS LOMMﾃ右 Mod-bike Jo Van Bostraeten
OPENSTRUCTURES THOMAS LOMMﾃ右 Open Modular Kitchen
NEW TIMES NEW HEROES - MILAN OpenSructures Exhibition View
THE MACHINE DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
THOMAS VAILLY– The Metabolic Factory
UNFOLD – L’Artisan Electronique
Social Design
Social Design Eugenia Morpurgo
Produser Tristan Kopp
Harvesting pollution Giacomo Piovan
It is not about the world of design
It is about designing the world, life and society
Technology alone is not the answer !
The question is: what was the question again ?
We are answering 21st century problems and issues with 20th century answers
BEYOND PROPERTY
Curiosity Cabinet & Connected Cloud
Reflecting the changing nature of authorship, ownership & property
Exemplary, MAK, Vienna 2014 - Commonplace Studio
DESIGNING SCARCITY
recycle / collage / multi-use, re-use,
per-use / substitute / imitate / repai
otect / resilience / cut down, reduce divide & share / inform / cooperate
ATELIER A HABITER
will act as an experiment / atelier where artists, architects and designers will rethink and redefine the concept of dwelling. Today, after the financial crisis of 2008 and the Occupy movements of 2011, new visions on living matter more than ever. In a worldwide context, we are facing new demographic, social, ecological and economic
To reinvent dwelling and living. Will the modernist 'house as machine' (machine a habiter), constructed from standard elements for standard needs, shift these days into the 'house as workshop' (atelier a habiter), where imagination, experiment and creativity of the inhabitant are at the forefront? challenges and the reinvention of systems.
AndrĂŠs Jaque Office for Political Innovation.
Courtesy of MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Thomas Lommée & Christiane Högner AUTARKYTECTURE
BIO 50 3, 2, 1… TEST
Affordable Living / Knowing Food /
Public Water Public Space / Walking the City / Hidden Crafts / The Fashion System /
Hacking Households / Nanotourism / Engine Bloc Observing Space / Designing Life
FRICTION
THROUGH DESIGNING
MAKING NEW CONNECTIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE