Category Archives: Design Culture
Artefacts Series
learning from science and technology museums
Cases of science and technology museums that have pursued an explicit and strategic policy of collecting and exhibiting industrial arts and design are quite rare. One can mention the Národní technické muzeum (National Technical Museum) in Prague, which comprises collections of Industrial design and Consumer industry – the Museum is currently closed, under renovation, [...]
The strange case of Mr. Schwarz
Could museums of design help changing his mind?
In year 2000, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York organized and presented Design Culture Now, the first edition of the triennial event which aims at providing «present critical overviews of key developments in American design» (National Design Triennial). In the first edition, more than eighty projects were selected «to highlight the current blurring [...]
Design has entered the Golden Age
Is it 1950 or 2009?
«Design has entered a golden age. Lauded in the popular press, design and designers are becoming household names. Major museum exhibitions explore design’s relevance to daily life while bringing new designs to the general public’s attention. A flurry of schools with innovative approaches to the field are just beginning to make an impact, launching the [...]
