La mostra dedicata a Victor J. Papanek che nei suoi lavori aveva anticipato i temi del sociale e dell’ecologia

Vitra Design Museum

29 settembre 2018 – 10 marzo 2019

 

Con Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design il Vitra Design Museum presenta la prima grande retrospettiva dedicata al designer, autore e attivista Victor J. Papanek (1923-1998).

A partire dagli anni Sessanta, Papanek fu uno dei maggiori precursori di un approccio al design orientato ad aspetti sociali ed ecologici.

Nella sua opera chiave Design for the Real World (1971), ancora oggi considerato il libro sul design più letto che sia mai stato pubblicato, Papanek sostiene l’inclusione, la giustizia sociale e la sostenibilità, temi più che mai attuali per il design contemporaneo.

La mostra espone lavori di straordinario valore come disegni, oggetti, filmati, manoscritti e stampe in parte mai presentati prima al pubblico. Integrano l’esposizione opere di designer degli anni Sessanta e Ottanta contemporanei a Papanek, fra cui quelle di George Nelson, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan e dell’iniziativa di design radicale Global Tools.

Opere contemporanee provenienti dall’ambito del Critical Design e del Social Design mostrano inoltre quale influenza Papanek continui ad avere sul design di oggi.

 

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Victor J. Papanek filming the WNED-TV Channel 17 programme Design Dimensions in Buffalo, NY, 1961 – 1963 © WNED-TV, courtesy Victor J. Papanek Foundation
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Victor J. Papanek - Gallery of Living Arts, Corona Del Mar, CA, Entrance Lobby, design for exhibition space, 1949 – 1952 © University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation
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Victor J. Papanek - Tetrakaidecahedral, 1973-1975 (movable playground structure, designed with a student, parents, teachers and children) © University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation
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Cover for the exhibition catalogue Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design, 2018 © Vitra Design Museum, Design: Daniel Streat, Visual Fields
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Victor J. Papanek, Samisen dining chairs, 1960 – 1970 © University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation
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Victor J. Papanek, Cover for Design for Human Scale«, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc., 1983 © University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation
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UN Women The Autocomplete Truth: Need, advertising campaign designed by Mermac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai, 2013 © Photo: Mermac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai
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Victor J. Papanek and James Hennessy Lean-To Chair, pictured on manuscript page of Nomadic Furniture 2, 1974 © James Hennessy and University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation
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Victor J. Papanek and James Hennessy Lean-To Chair, pictured on manuscript page of Nomadic Furniture 2, 1974 © James Hennessy and University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation
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Jorma Vennola , Fingermajig, 1965-1970 (tactile plastic children’s toys, designed under guidance from Victor J. Papanek) © University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation
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Victor J. Papanek - Tetrakaidecahedral, 1973-1975 (movable playground structure, designed with a student, parents, teachers and children) © University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation