Freak Show: Strategies for (Dis)Engagement in Design
13 November '10 – 15 January '11
The Helmrinderknecht contemporary design gallery in Berlin will hold a private view for their show Freak Show: Strategies for (Dis)Engagement in Design on Friday, 12 November 2010, 6-9 pm, the designers will be present.
The show, curated by design author and critic Sophie Lovell, focuses on designers that she feels work "beyond social, theoretical and methodical norms." Sophie has brought together a group of designers including: Auger-Loizeau, Pieke Bergmans, Dunne & Raby, El Ultimo Grito, Martí Guixé, Stuart Haygarth, Kueng Caputo, Mathieu Lehanneur, Studio Makkink & Bey and Jerszy Seymour.
The show hopes to highlight how designers can use disengagement as a tool to create change amongst traditional design thinking.
She writes-
Those who disengage in this way are outsiders – freaks – and traditionally they are suppressed or rejected since they tend to threaten the status quo. But now the status quo is threatening us and we are learning to value and to celebrate “difference”.
The work of all these designers is about rising to the responsibility of engagement through disengagement and as a result they are giving us an insight into what the world could be like if we can find the courage to accept change.
