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Strangely familiar
dal 7/6/2003 al 7/9/2003
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7/6/2003

Strangely familiar

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

The exhibition brings together more than 40 innovative projects drawn internationally from the fields of architecture, product, furniture, fashion, and graphic design. The exhibition features works by noted designers as well as important projects from architects


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DESIGN AND EVERYDAY LIFE


Design is a paradox in our lives, both anonymous and conspicuous, familiar and strange. It surrounds us while fading from view, becoming second nature and yet seemingly unknowable. Design also stands out and apart from the world in which it exists, an alien presence appearing against the grain of everyday life.

A light that responds to silence, a table that knows where it is, a pig farm the size of a skyscraper, a coat that becomes a tent, a house that fits in your pocket--these projects offer us works that question the habitual, transform the commonplace, alter our expectations of dwelling, and blur the boundaries of form and function.

The exhibition Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life brings together more than 40 innovative projects drawn internationally from the fields of architecture, product, furniture, fashion, and graphic design. The exhibition features works by noted designers such as Shigeru Uchida, Dunne & Raby, Marcel Wanders, Constantin and Laurene Leon Boym, and Jurgen Bey as well as important projects from architects MVRDV, LOT-EK, R&Sie..., and Shigeru Ban, among others.


The Walker-produced exhibition catalogue includes essays by curator Andrew Blauvelt, Walker Design Director; Aaron Betsky, Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute; Jonathan Bell, London-based design critic and editor of Carchitecture: When the Car and the City Collide and The Transformable House; and Jamer Hunt, director of the graduate program in industrial design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.


Michael Anastassiades (U.K.)
Atelier Bow-Wow (Japan)
Shigeru Ban (Japan)
Jop van Bennekom (the Netherlands)
Thomas Bernstrand (the Netherlands)
Jurgen Bey (the Netherlands)
Blu Dot (U.S.)
Boym Partners Incorporated (U.S.)
Julian Lion Boxenbaum (U.S./Italy)
Moreno Ferrari (C.P. Company) (Italy)
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (U.K.)
Elephant Design (Japan)
Doug Garofalo (U.S.)
Markku Hedman (Finland)
Koers, Zeinstra, van Gelderen (the Netherlands)
LOT-EK (U.S.)
MVRDV (the Netherlands)
Nucleo (Italy)
Marijn van der Poll (the Netherlands)
Jennifer Siegal (Office of Mobile Design) (U.S.)
R&Sie... (France)
Martìn Ruiz de Azúa (Spain)
Alejandro Stöberl (Argentina)
su11 (U.S.)
Frank Tjepkema and Peter van der Jagt (the Netherlands)
Shigeru Uchida (Japan)
Paolo Ulian (Italy)
Marek Walczak, Michael McAllister, Peter Kennard, and Jakub Segen (U.S.)
Marcel Wanders (the Netherlands) Allan Wexler (U.S.)
Rachel Whiteread (U.K.)
www.fortunecookies.dk (Denmark)

Image: Thomas Bernstrand, DO SWING 2001
photo: Bianca Pilet


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