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14/6/2015

The collective intention

Depot, Basel

“Taking our seat under the transparent crystal of the common good, through the action of some mysterious machinery, we would then collectively endowed with more acute vision and higher virtue. At least that was the idea, no matter of the machinery was the social contract or some other metamorphosis: The selfish narrow-minded worm will re-emerge as a brightly colored collective butterfly.”

Quoted from “From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik or How to Make Things Public” by Bruno Latour

Members of collectives do not consider themselves as competitors, they aspire to create a network. Do they share similarities? How do collectives originate? What creates a sense of togetherness? Depot Basel dedicates an exhibition to these recurring patterns and to collective intent.

Also in Design and in Visual Arts, the aspiration to face new challenges collectively is bringing together people from very diverse fields. Depending on the particular collective, sociologists, graphic artists, IT business engineers, architects, product designers, landscape architects, artists, historians and interaction-designers come together. The friction and the interchange give birth to works that aspire to a common identity. Depot Basel’s concern is to reflect those aspirations and patterns of collaboration and to display this feeling of togetherness.

With:
Collective Disaster
Design Displacement Group
Juice & Rispetta
Okay Studio
Postfossil
Speedism
Syn-opsis
Wndrlust
Yaay

And:
Charlotte van de Velde
Michał Szota
Sebastian Zimmerhackl
Theda Schoppe
This Is Work

Depot Basel was launched in June 2011 on the initiative of designers Laura Pregger and Matylda Krzykowski, process designer Moritz Walther and economist Elias Schäfer, designer Julia Landsiedl and the journalist Katharina Altemeier. The core team today is comprised by the four first-mentioned founding members and – from 2012 onward – the design journalist Rebekka Kiesewetter. Their common interest lies in a theoretical and practical approach to the subject of design and its presentation, mediation and promotion.

Events:

The Collective Eating (Breakfast)
Jun 17 | 10am – 1pm

The Collective Watching (Screening)
Jun 25 | 9pm

Insight The Collective (Lecture)
Aug 13 | 8pm

The Collective Drinking (Vernissage) Mon 15.06.2015 20.00 – 24.00

Depot Basel
Voltastrasse 43, CH-4056 Basel
Opening times
Thu – Fri 17.00 – 20.00
Sat 12.00 – 18.00
Opening times during Art Basel
Tue – Sat 12.00 – 18.00
Or by appointment

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