Nr. 15 DESIGNING CRITICAL DESIGN

For the DESIGNING CRITICAL DESIGN exhibition, Z33 has invited Martí Guixé (E), Jurgen Bey (NL) en Fiona Raby & Anthony Dunne (UK), designers who are all known for their critical attitude towards mainstream product design.
Although they have distanced themselves from today’s commercial design world, they sometimes use its mechanisms to pose questions about technological, social and ethical questions. Their ambivalent, critical position towards design and the spirited, playful form language used to express this is a constant theme throughout the exhibition.

The participating designers will make a new piece of work for Z33: an object, an intervention in the public space or an installation. The exhibition will consist of three ‘solo exhibitions’, in which each designer will present their latest work, imbedded in a folio of earlier work.

A fourth space will be filled with work from the different designers in which the intrinsic interface, namely the critical position in the debate on the function of design and designer, will be explored further.

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