{"id":4745,"date":"2024-03-05T18:47:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/?post_type=exhibition&p=4745"},"modified":"2024-06-28T14:59:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T12:59:27","slug":"friedrich-von-borries-politics-of-design-design-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/en\/ausstellung\/friedrich-von-borries-politics-of-design-design-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Friedrich von Borries. Politics of Design. Design of Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friedrich von Borries. Politics of Design. Design of Politics<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Deals with the relationship between politics and design as well as the question of the field of tension in which designers and architects operate.<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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View of the exhibition, Friedrich von Borries. Politics of Design. Design of Politics, 2018.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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About the Exhibition<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Having in 2016 addressed the relationship between design and politics both from a literary angle in the novel project \u201cRLF. Das richtige Leben im Falschen\u201d and programmatically with the manifesto \u201cWeltentwerfen. Eine politische Designtheorie\u201d (Suhrkamp Verlag), Friedrich von Borries is now developing on this topic an intervention in the museum space at the invitation of Die Neue Sammlung \u2013 The Design Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition thus also continues a series on contemporary design positions held in the Paternoster Hall. For these, Die Neue Sammlung \u2013 The Design Museum has invited international protagonists of design such as Konstantin Grcic, Werner Aisslinger and Hella Jongerius to produce expansive and multipart installations since 2015.
The exhibition conceived by architect and design theorist Friedrich von Borries consists of three parts:
The first part \u2013 the engagement with \u201cPolitics of Design\u201d \u2013 shows which political moment design contains within itself through a series of interventions in the museum collection. Theses such as \u201cdesign sexualizes,\u201d \u201cdesign colonizes\u201d and \u201cdesign manipulates\u201d offer a new perspective on Coca-Cola advertising, the Sony Walkman, and modernist furniture. Yet the interventionist stance also includes questioning the museum\u2019s own power of interpretation. For this purpose, people were asked via an open call to bring objects to the museum; in September all participants then formed an independent jury. As a result, the museum is showing, among other things, models of vulvas, DIY furniture and urban gardening trash cans for the duration of the exhibition. The highlight of the engagement with the \u201cPolitics of Design\u201d is the design model of a slide created by Friedrich von Borries for Thonet with a view to the company\u2019s upcoming 200th anniversary. It addresses the fact that sitting down disciplines us and furthermore has a connection to possession \u2013 as seen in the German word \u201cbesitzen\u201d \u2013 while also raising the question of how we get into dynamic movement from the static, persisting seated position.
The second part of the exhibition is a subjective reflection on the work of Friedrich von Borries to date, displayed in the two paternoster elevators. By donating an artwork his heteronym, the artist Mikael Mikael, intervenes in the museum collection, while in a perpetuating, Sisyphean marble-run installation he also points to the fundamental dilemma of a politically active artist or designer, who will presumably never reach the \u2013 supposed \u2013 goal.
The third part \u2013 \u201cDesign of Politics\u201d \u2013 looks at the possibilities for shaping and changing politics through design. What contribution can design make to the social and cultural development of a society? Workshops are to be held in the context of the exhibition as a discursive, public design process in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale f\u00fcr politische Bildung\/bpb). By means of an open call, interested citizens, activists, designers, artists and scientists are being invited to a series of workshops, a \u201cbase camp for democracy,\u201d at which project ideas are to be jointly developed. The results will be discussed publicly with high-profile guests from the fields of politics, science and culture. A Facebook page with text recommendations, book reviews and expert interviews is to accompany the search movement. This process will be documented in the exhibition.
The exhibition does not only address issues such as \u201csurveillance,\u201d \u201cself-fulfillment,\u201d \u201ccommodity,\u201d and \u201cmarket\u201d against the backdrop of democracy as a form of government that is both worthy of protection and simultaneously in need of improvement. Indeed, with a view to the relationship between politics and design, it also raises the question as to which contexts designers and architects now need to navigate if they want their work to be politically responsible. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition will be issued by Koenig Books.

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