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Utrecht Manifest
dal 23/11/2007 al 10/2/2008

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23/11/2007

Utrecht Manifest

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2nd Biennale for Social Design. Modernism's legacy. An international cultural biennial, which perceives contemporary developments in design and architecture from a social perspective. It shows how architecture and design, in the past and present, have looked for answers to social and cultural questions connected to innovation, quality and sustainability. Connections between design, architecture and other cultural expressions such as film, theatre and literature.


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Biennial podium for design and society

Utrecht Manifest is an international cultural biennial, which perceives contemporary developments in design and architecture from a social perspective.

The biennial shows how architecture and design, in the past and present, have looked for answers to social and cultural questions connected to innovation, quality and sustainability.

The biennial searches for connections between design, architecture and other cultural expressions such as film, theatre and literature, in order to stimulate the public and political debate. The aim is to reinforce the role of design and architecture in developing coherent agendas for social and cultural innovation.

The biennial’s theme is Modernism’s legacy. At the start of the previous century, this movement in the arts, architecture and design formulated a new socially inspired aesthetics, based on modern, technological-industrial methods. After the critique of Postmodernism, does Modernism still exert influence? Is modernism’s social agenda still relevant?

MAIN PROGRAM:
Lovely Language - Exhibition
Lightness - Workshop
Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner - Workshop
A Safe Place - Exhibition
Interdisciplinary debate - Debate
Living and Working Together - Exhibition
Endless Inspiration - Film
Beautiful Cultures - Workshop
The Sustainability Dilemma - Symposium
Re-use and Use and Use… - Exhibition
Information That Matters - Documentation Centre

Lovely Language
Words Divide, Images Unite
Date: 24 November 2007 – 11 February 2008
Opening times: Tues. – Sun., 11:00 – 17:00; closed on Mondays, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day Admission: €8.00 for adults. Free for Museumkaart cardholders and for children (12 years and under). €6.00 for youngsters (13 to 17 years) and CJP or 65+ passholders.
Location: Centraal Museum Utrecht
Address: Nicolaaskerkhof 10, Utrecht

Exhibition: In the 1920s, the Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath (1882–1945) developed an international visual language, for which the German-Dutch graphic artist Gerd Arntz (1900–1988) designed more than 4,000 pictograms. Neurath’s motto – ‘words divide, images unite’ – is the point of departure for the Lovely Language exhibition. Many of the duo’s designs were the forebears of pictograms we now encounter everywhere, such as the man and woman on toilet doors. How tenable is the ‘ISOTYPE’ (International System of Typographic Picture Education) by Neurath and Arntz in the 21st century? Lovely Language presents Neurath and Arntz’s visual language and the way it was employed as the basis for the development of an international visual language. Also on show is recent and inspiring work at the frontiers of word and image by Mieke Gerritzen, Koert van Mensvoort, the British-Finnish artist Charles Sandison and others.

Lightness
Date: Friday 30 November
Opening times: Afternoon session at 14:30, limited number of places, by invitation only.
Location: De Pastoe Fabriek
Address: Rotsoord 3, Utrecht

Workshop: Ed van Hinte, journalist. Theme: Lightness
Organization: Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU)

Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner
Date: Thursday 29 November
Opening times: Afternoon session at 14:30: Limited number of places, by invitation only.
Location: De Pastoe Fabriek
Address: Rotsoord 3, Utrecht

Workshop: Facilitated by architects Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner
Organization: HKU

A Safe Place
Pictograms for Disaster Areas
Date: 24 November 2007 – 11 February 2008
Opening times: Tues. – Sun., 11:00 – 17:00; closed on Mondays, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day ADMISSION: €8.00 for adults. Free for Museumkaart cardholders and for children (12 years and under). 7 pt €6.00 for youngsters (13 to 17 years) and CJP or 65+ passholders
Location: Centraal Museum Utrecht
Address: Nicolaaskerkhof 10, Utrecht

Exhibition: Television, radio, newspapers and the Internet treat disasters as happenings.
Clear communication between the local population, any foreign tourists
and the international aid workers is critical for every kind of disaster. Gert
Dumbar, the renowned graphic designer, devised a new set of universal
pictograms for humanitarian relief organizations together with his son Derk
and students from Iowa City, Seoul, Paris and The Hague. After years of
research these important designs are being presented for the first time in
the exhibition A Safe Place.

Interdisciplinary debate
Date: Sunday 2 December
Opening times: 15:00-16:30. Admission: free
Location: Debatcentrum Tumult
Address: Domplein 5, Utrecht

Debate: Interdisciplinary debate about engagement in art / design / architecture
Discussion with Katinka Baerh, journalist (a.o. VPRO, Vara and Avro-radio); Richard van der Laken, Designpolitie, co-designer Gorilla (Volkskrant) and winner of the Designprijs 2007; Willem Velthoven, Mediamatic, Winner of the Designprijs 2007 and behind the concept El Hema; Sofie Krier, Departmenthead Design Lab at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

Living and Working Together
International Graduates: Design Projects for the Future
Date: 24 November 2007 – 12 January 2008
Opening times: Wed. – Sat. 12:00 – 17:00; and exceptionally on Sunday, 25 November. Closed from 23 December 2007 to 8 January 2008. Admission: free
Location: Academiegalerie
Address: Minrebroederstraat 16, Utrecht

Exhibition: This exhibition presents about 20 inspirational graduation projects from
international design courses. A growing social awareness is a characteristic of many young designers. The exhibition presents fresh concepts and products for the international society of the future, sometimes bluntly simplistic and sometimes highly detailed. The courses represented are:
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, England
Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Portugal
Fabrica, Italy
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
George Brown College, Institute without Boundaries, Canada
Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), the Netherlands
Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Turkey
Royal College of Art, England
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany

Endless Inspiration
Location: Filmtheater ’t Hoogt
Address: Hoogt 4, Utrecht.

Film programme: Three inspirational documentaries are being screened at Filmtheater ’t Hoogt, providing the starting point for a discussion about modernism’s recommendations and significance, now and in the future. Each film is introduced by a speaker. After the screening, the speaker and the public discuss the film’s relevance for the design of today and tomorrow.
– SURPLUS: Terrorized into being Consumers is about our behaviour as consumers. This film broaches many controversial aspects of the ‘needs’ and ‘wants’ in society: George W. Bush wonders what people would do if they could no longer shop, while Fidel Castro urges his nation to buy only the barest necessities.
Monday, 26 November 2007 at 19:30,
with an introduction and discussion led by design critic Max Bruinsma.
– The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. The American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988) shows us the world through very different lenses and invites us to stray from well-beaten paths and experiment. Feynman, whose work included assisting in the development of the atomic bomb and who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, reveals the delights of being able to think in terms that extend beyond the materialization of an idea.
Tuesday, 8 January 2008 at 19:30,
with an introduction and discussion led by designer Jurgen Bey.
– The Next Industrial Revolution. In recent years we have primarily been confronted with negative reports concerning the waste that we as a society produce, but it can also be seen as something positive. William McDonough and Michael Braungart see waste as a raw material for new products, under the challenging motto ‘waste=food’: biodegradable products as new fertilizer.
Tuesday, 5 February 2008 at 19:30,
with an introduction and discussion led by journalist Ed van Hinte.
Tickets at the box office: € 4.50

Beautiful Cultures
Traditional Skills, Modern Design
Date: 24 November 2007 – 26 January 2008
Location: Dutch Design Center
Address: Rotsoord 3, Utrecht

Workshop: An exhibition of T-shirts made by students from the Utrecht School of the
Arts (HKU) together with Turkish, Moroccan and Indonesian immigrants.
During a workshop, several symbols from the various cultures were gathered
together and translated into modern designs by the students. The immigrants, older women and men, applied these designs to the T-shirts using
the traditional techniques familiar to them, such as crochet, needlework and embroidery. A selection of T-shirts will be on sale. This project was developed
in association with the Kosmopolis Foundation and the Utrecht School
of the Arts (HKU) and is supported by the City of Utrecht.
From 10 December, four of the T-shirts are for sale in the Dutch Design Center and
the design shop of the Centraal Museum.
Centraal Museum Utrecht, Agnietenstraat 2, Utrecht
Opening hours: Tues. – Sun., 11:00 – 17:00

The Sustainability Dilemma
Design as a strategy for transformation
Location: De Pastoe Fabriek

Symposium: In the context of the theoretical and investigative nature of Utrecht Manifest, an important international symposium is being held on Wednesday, 28 November.
Sustainability has become the key concept of the early 21st century. Many people are suddenly realizing that weurgently need to find a new way of interacting with our natural environment if we want to have a future worth talking about. All kinds of conflicting aspirations, fears and responsibilities become evident in this quest for sustainability. Can we choose between the pursuit of radical innovation as opposed to clinging to tried and tested formulae and world views? These are choices in which designers are closely involved. Can design serve as a guiding light in the transformation of the way we interact with nature? How might design contribute to the actualization of a sustainable society? And what are the cultural implications?

Re-use and Use and Use…
Date: 24 November – 15 December
Opening times: Mon.–Sat., 10:00 – 17:00; every first Sunday of the month, 12:00 – 17:00 Admission: free
Location: Dutch Design Center
Address: Rotsoord 3, Utrecht

Exhibition: In a workshop at ‘Het Gebouw van Stanley Brouwn’ exhibition space in Leidsche Rijn, children and teacher trainees from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) collected discarded materials and products in
order to give them with a new lease of life. The objects produced during the workshop are displayed at this exhibition. This project was realized in association with Beyond and the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU).

Information That Matters
Date: 25th of november till the 2nd of december
Location: Central library, Utrecht

Documentation Centre: During Utrecht Manifest a reading table with a selection of publications, connected to the theme and mission of Utrecht Manifest, will be open to the public. Here, visitors of Utrecht Manifest can further investigate subjects related to the various exhibitions, workshops and lectures.

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