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FRONT Diary 1 Sept – 24 March 2019 Andy Warhol: Pop Goes Art MAKK, Cologne Although Andy Warhol exhibitions are not a rare occurrence, this one promises to be different: drawn from a previously unpublished collection, it gathers together the pop maestro’s album covers and graphic work from his time working as a commercial artist in the 1950s. It should offer a fascinating interplay of music, art and design. museenkoeln.de 22 September – 4 November 2018 Various locations, Istanbul Q&A: Istanbul Design Biennial Now in its fourth iteration, the Istanbul Design Biennial has already built up a reputation as being among the most conceptually driven of design exhibitions. This year is set to be no exception: themed A School of Schools and curated by Jan Boelen, it revolves around the necessity of education amid accelerating technological development. Icon talked to Boelen about his aims. What inspired you to choose education as a theme? The expanded agency of design shows how the discipline has started to permeate all layers of everyday life. Design can no longer claim to offer solutions to everything: it is showing its cracks and exclusions. Similarly, design education now finds itself navigating new challenges regarding relevance, adaptability, accessibility and finances. Ninety-nine years after the Bauhaus, design and the world are very different places, while design education has mostly remained the same. And yet, education traditionally allowed for spaces where new ideas could be tested. Can a Biennial emulate these spaces? A School of Schools manifests as a set of dynamic learning formats encouraging creative production, sustainable collaboration and social connection. What led you to arrange this year’s event as an open call? Traditionally, the Istanbul Design Biennial is always arranged around the open call format – it’s been one of the characteristics of the event. A lot of surprising and unexpected projects came to us through the open call. Do you believe that traditional education needs to be replaced, or else refined to match contemporary realities? We seek to create the kinds of spaces of exception that have been a consistent aspect of alternative design education. These initiatives – from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College, Global Tools to the Sigma Group – have not only helped design to evolve, question itself and push its own boundaries, but also education in general. Through this process-based experiential research, new manifestations can emerge. aschoolofschools.iksv.org 15 Sept – 23 September 2018 London Design Festival Various locations, London London’s annual celebration of design returns with nine design districts, five fairs (including 100% Design) and landmark projects around the city. Kellenberger-White will display experimental chairs based on the alphabet, while the V&A will premiere a collaborative installation between Arup and the composer Arvo Pärt. londondesignfestival.com 20 iconeye.com
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FRONT Diary 4 Sept – 23 September 2018 London Design Biennale Somerset House, London Following 2016’s inaugural edition, London Design Biennale will return to Somerset House, with installations from 35 countries and cities. This year’s theme, Emotional States, seeks to track the way that design is able to affect and react to emotion, and is inspired by Charles Darwin’s idea of an emotional spectrum. londondesignbiennale.com 6 Sept – 16 September 2018 Helsinki Design Week Various locations, Helsinki The Finnish capital is one of Europe’s most bustling design centres and Helsinki Design Week is one of its busiest design celebrations, boasting around 250 events. Centred around the harbourside City Hall, this year there will be a Fire Garden for communal bonfire experiences, a giant adult cradle and an altar by the sculptor Man Yau. helsinkidesignweek.com 8 Sept – 24 February 2019 Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt V&A, London Few mediums have advanced as rapidly as videogames in the past few decades, but they have seldom found a place in the museum. This V&A exhibition looks to be a necessary corrective, using design documentation and interactive installations to provide a window on some outstanding contemporary games, from Journey to Kentucky Route Zero. vam.ac.uk 12 Sept – 6 January 2019 Beazley Designs of the Year Design Museum, London Now over a decade old, this annual showcase offers an invaluable snapshot of the year’s most innovative, unprecedented and off-the-wall designs. Over 70 exhibits will be displayed across six categories. Recently the prizes have often gone to socially motivated design: it will be interesting to see if this streak continues. designmuseum.org 15 Sept – 20 January 2019 Renzo Piano Royal Academy, London Subtitled ‘The Art of Making Buildings’, this exhibition will offer a tour through the career of the Genoese starchitect. Organised in close dialogue with Piano himself, the show will focus on 16 of his key projects, from the Centre Pompidou to the Shard. A large-scale sculptural installation will place around 100 of his works onto an imaginary island. royalacademy.org.uk I G H TO N TAY LO R C R E : I M AG E S 16 Sept – 23 September 2018 Modesto Architecture Festival Modesto, California A mid-sized city in California’s Central Valley, Modesto boasts a profusion of turn of the 20th century and modernist architecture. This annual festival includes tours and talks around and about the town’s most important buildings. At a time when America’s international role is under question, it will provide a window into an optimistic era. modestoarchfest.com September 2018 21 29 Sept – 10 March 2019 Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein This retrospective will gather Papanek’s objects, films and graphics to offer a portrait of him as an activist and pioneer of social design. As well as situating its subject in the context of contemporaries such as Buckminster Fuller, George Nelson and Marshall McLuhan, it will look forward to trace Papanek’s influence on the present. design-museum.de

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1 Sept – 24 March 2019 Andy Warhol: Pop Goes Art MAKK, Cologne Although Andy Warhol exhibitions are not a rare occurrence, this one promises to be different: drawn from a previously unpublished collection, it gathers together the pop maestro’s album covers and graphic work from his time working as a commercial artist in the 1950s. It should offer a fascinating interplay of music, art and design. museenkoeln.de

22 September – 4 November 2018 Various locations, Istanbul

Q&A: Istanbul Design Biennial

Now in its fourth iteration, the Istanbul Design Biennial has already built up a reputation as being among the most conceptually driven of design exhibitions. This year is set to be no exception: themed A School of Schools and curated by Jan Boelen, it revolves around the necessity of education amid accelerating technological development. Icon talked to Boelen about his aims. What inspired you to choose education as a theme? The expanded agency of design shows how the discipline has started to permeate all layers of everyday life. Design can no longer claim to offer solutions to everything: it is showing its cracks and exclusions. Similarly, design education now finds itself navigating new challenges regarding relevance, adaptability, accessibility and finances. Ninety-nine years after the Bauhaus, design and the world are very different places, while design education has mostly remained the same. And yet, education traditionally allowed for spaces where new ideas could be tested. Can a Biennial emulate these spaces? A

School of Schools manifests as a set of dynamic learning formats encouraging creative production, sustainable collaboration and social connection. What led you to arrange this year’s event as an open call? Traditionally, the Istanbul Design Biennial is always arranged around the open call format – it’s been one of the characteristics of the event. A lot of surprising and unexpected projects came to us through the open call. Do you believe that traditional education needs to be replaced, or else refined to match contemporary realities? We seek to create the kinds of spaces of exception that have been a consistent aspect of alternative design education. These initiatives – from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College, Global Tools to the Sigma Group – have not only helped design to evolve, question itself and push its own boundaries, but also education in general. Through this process-based experiential research, new manifestations can emerge. aschoolofschools.iksv.org

15 Sept – 23 September 2018 London Design Festival Various locations, London London’s annual celebration of design returns with nine design districts, five fairs (including 100% Design) and landmark projects around the city. Kellenberger-White will display experimental chairs based on the alphabet, while the V&A will premiere a collaborative installation between Arup and the composer Arvo Pärt. londondesignfestival.com

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