ECAL x MacGuffin
02–26.05.2019
Arles + Istanbul Biennial Design

UPDATE:

«A School of Schools : apprendre par le design» est une exposition multi-plateformes constituée d'installations expérimentales qui explorent et revisitent les grands principes de l'éducation. Sous lecommissariat de Jan Boelen - directeur artistique cofondateur du programme de recherche Atelier Luma - avec Vera Sacchetti et Nadine Botha pour la 4ème Biennale de designd'Istanbul organisée par la Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, l'exposition présente le travail de plus de 90 artistes et designers internationaux.

Parmi ceux-ci, l'ECAL présente "ECAL x MacGuffin (lire plus bas).

A School of Schools est présentée à Luma Arles en tant que programme invité de la 3ème édition des Luma Days,forum annuel d'art et d'idées organisé du 22 au 25 mai à Arles autour d'une programmation de conférences, d'ateliers professionnels, de performances, d'installations artistiques et de moments conviviaux.

Cette année, le forum sera consacré à la thématique : "ENSEMBLE, une déclaration d'interdépendance".

Du 02/05/2019 au 26/05/2019
Parc des Ateliers, 45 chemin des Minimes, 13200 Arles

www.luma-arles.org/fr/articles/school-of-schools

Can a magazine be a design school? Or a design school a magazine? This autumn, MacGuffin and Swiss art and design school ECAL present the results of their collaboration during the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, which is all about design as learning, and learning as design. The exhibition explores the ways in which the two can enrich the other.

Last autumn, Dutch product designer Chris Kabel tutored Bachelor Industrial Design students at ECAL in collaboration with design magazine MacGuffin. The students used the magazine’s editorial model as a methodology to study the use of everyday things and to design objects derived from them.

They modelled their approach on the way the magazine themes its issues, and chose MacGuffins like The Roof, The Shade, The Wheel, The Ruler, The Lock and The Socle as the focus of their investigations.

Their research resulted in a range of observational studies, contextual reportages and visual essays on the materiality of the objects, to be used as a basis for designing new objects. The outcome is an exciting collection of narratives and objects that explore The Life of Things, presented in the form of a 3D magazine. From Umbrella Stories and Wheel Stoppers to Real-Life Rulers and a platform for the Bottom of Things.

22 September – 4 November 2018.

The Life of Things
Istanbul Design Biennial – A School of Schools, curated by Jan Boelen
Pera Museum, Meşrutiyet Caddesi 65, İstanbul
aschoolofschools.iksv.org