Critical Tide -näyttelyprojekti on valittu Designmuseon syksyn gallerianäyttelyksi avoimen haun perusteella. Näyttely avautuu Helsinki Design Weekille 6. syyskuuta 2019. Avoimen Design Club Open Call -näyttelyhaun toinen kierros keskittyi kriittisen muotoilun teemaan.
Syksyllä avautuva Critical Tide –näyttely kokoaa yhteen projekteja ja teoksia, jotka tutkivat meriä ja muutoksen mahdollisuutta muotoilun keinoin. Critical Tide yhdistää näyttelytilaan tutkimuksen, aktivismin ja yhteisöllisyyden.
Näyttelyn takaa löytyy moniammatillinen tiimi Julia Lohmann, Pirjo Haikola, Gillian Russell ja Gero Grundmann. Työryhmä saa näyttelyn toteuttamiseen 10 000 euron tuotantostipendin ja näyttelytilan Designmuseon Galleriassa.
Designia pienellä d:llä
Tämän vuoden Open Call -haun teemana oli kriittinen design. Kriittinen design kyseenalaistaa totuttuja ajattelutapoja ja rohkaisee vaihtoehtoisiin näkemyksiin ja mahdollisuuksiin.
Critical Tide ei keskity ainoastaan muotoilun lopputuotokseen, kuten palveluun tai tuotteeseen, vaan sen tavoitteena on lisätä tietoisuuttamme yhteiskunnallisissa, kulttuurisissa ja eettisissä kysymyksissä muotoilun avulla.
– Tässä näyttelyssä nähdään designia pienellä d:llä. Keskitymme siihen, millaisia keinoja ja ratkaisuja muotoilijat voisivat tarjota yhteisten haasteiden ratkaisemiseksi, tiimin jäsenet kertovat.
Merten ekologiset verkostot eivät näy jokapäiväisessä arjessa, joten niissä piilevät ongelmatkin paljastuvat meille vaivihkaa. Critical Tide tekee näkyväksi meriimme liittyviä uhkia, mutta tarjoaa myös ratkaisuehdotuksia.
– Merissä piilee valtavasti mahdollisuuksia kestävään yhteiseloon maapallon muun lajiston kanssa. Muotoilun avulla voimme käsitellä merissämme vellovia ongelmia ja tehdä niitä näkyviksi. Muotoilun välineillä näitä ongelmia voidaan lähteä myös ratkomaan.
Julia Lohmann, Oki Naganode (2013) Picture: Noortje Knulst on Display Magazine 2016
Critical Tide -työryhmän jäsenet:
Julia Lohmann, designer, educator and researcher investigates and critiques the ethical and material value systems underpinning our relationship with flora and fauna. She is Professor for Contemporary Design at Aalto University, Helsinki, teaching ‘Critical Design Practice’ and ‘Design Practice in Social Context’. Julia also founded the ‘Department of Seaweed’, a trans-disciplinary platform for the sustainable development of algae as a resource for making, as well as directing her own design studio. Julia holds a PhD in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art, London. The AHRC-funded research was undertaken in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum. Julia’s work is part of major public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, Arts Institute Chicago, Metropolitan Museum New York, British Council. For more information see www.julialohmann.co.uk.
Pirjo Haikola is a designer, educator, researcher and SCUBA diving instructor. Her work focuses on socially and environmentally responsible design and designers’ agency in different collaborative contexts, in particular related to coastal challenges. Pirjo is a lecturer in Design Innovation and Technology at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (March 2019-) and has previously held positions at Aalto University in Helsinki, IADE Creative University in Lisbon and Delft University of Technology. Pirjo’s teaching includes annual Conceptual and Critical Design courses at Aalto University (since 2007). Pirjo also works as a design research consultant, most recently for Suunto diving. Pirjo holds a PhD in Design as Marie Curie Fellow (DESIRE network and University of Aveiro 2013). Pirjo has co-authored publications under the titles: Green Dream (2010), Visionary Cities (2010), and Vertical Village (2012), among others. Her design projects have been exhibited internationally. For more information see www.pirjohaikola.com
Gillian Russell is a Designer, Curator and Researcher whose projects centre on the interplay between design and its critical contexts. She is a senior lecturer at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada, where she teaches Critical Design Practice, Inventive Methods in Design Research, and Narrative Environments. She has worked on projects and exhibitions with the Design Museum London, London Design Festival, Milan Furniture Fair, Tent London, and Victoria & Albert Museum. This work has led to publications in key journals in the field as well a a book chapter on ‘Curating Critical Design: An embodied criticality’ in Design Objects and the Museum, Bloomsbury (2016) Gillian holds a PhD in History of Design at the Royal College of Art, London (2017). It was undertaken with AHRC funding in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Gero Grundmann is a Helsinki and Hamburg-based designer, translator and educator. He founded the transdisciplinary design studio Studio Bec together with his wife, the designer Julia Lohmann. Gero is interested in the fields of design and craft, resilience and sustainability, inclusion and ethics. He mainly works in the cultural, educational and beyond-profit sector, designing and co-curating exhibitions and educational activities together with his clients and visualising/illustrating for print, web and events. Gero has taught at a number of European design schools, was a project associate professor at the KIT Design Lab in Japan, helped author an MA-level design curriculum, has written and led numerous degree and postgraduate-level workshops, as well as mentoring design students and practitioners in Europe and Asia. For more information see www.studiobec.com‘
Teksti: Minni Soverila
The Critical Tide exhibition is supported by the Design Museum´s Design Club member Pharmaceutical Information Centre
Also working together with
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| John Nurminen Foundation has contributed to making the Baltic Characters. The species profiles of the Baltic Characters test have been made in cooperation with John Nurminen Foundation´s marine biologist. | The Association of Finnish Lions Clubs and their The Lions for Clean Waters project has enabled the Ocean Confessional to be a part of the Critical Tide exhibition in Helsinki. The Clean Waters project is financed by the Ministry of Environment. |
