(Archive) Design in Conversation

Design in Conversation

The exhibition “Design in Conversation” arises from a series of conversations between the curator and the designers to critically inquire how design can take action. Through a process of asking the makers how they think and work, four projects came to life, inviting the audience to engage in further discussions and stimulate a continuing dialogue.


This exhibition was inspired by the book “Designerly ways of knowing: a working inventory of things a designer should know”, by Danah Abdulla, published by Onomatopee.

Who are the five designers?

Flora Lechner observes the power relations between body-object and body-space, how objects shape the world and the world is shaped by them.

Bruno Baietto explores how ideological structures, such as Western history, theology and political philosophy, shape the designers of today and what their struggles are.

Ramón Jiménez Cárdenas interweaves historical and material research. He explores how design history does not account for the colonial experience.

Jannis Zell & Lisa Ertel materialize the veiled histories and the life of everyday objects through artistic and design-based physical approximations: what are the unnoticed stories of design?

RE-design-er

After years of pondering stasis, we are now all set. Meanwhile, the design field has been transforming. New forms of thinking and making have emerged. Onomatopee is now daring designers to act.

Through three distinct shows, Onomatopee presents the work of designers who critically question and re-think the role of design and the designer.

With this critical gaze, Onomatopee turns into an active laboratory, offering makers, agents, thinkers and performers a playground for experiment. We are not just interested in design solutions, but rather in the possibility of creating new opportunities for action. This implies awareness to how you work, the process.

It is on those processes, that anticipate and inform the design practice, that we turn our attention.The RE-design-er offers us the ability to continuously question ourselves.

A vibrant public program invites you to experience and discuss, out loud and freely, how, why, and for whom does design happen? 


RE-Design-er is curated by Cecilia Casabona in collaboration with Onomatopee.