Victor Papapank Biography
Advertising Retrospective exhibition “Victor Papapanak: Design Policy” from September 29 to March 10 in the Vitra Design Museum will host the Viktor Papapank: Design Policy, which will become the first major retrospective dedicated to the famous designer, philosopher and activist Papanek Foundation, Viktor Papapaek, one of the most influential protagonists A socially and environmentally -oriented approach to design, which originates in the X.
The key work of the papank “Design for the real world” today remains the most readable of the ever published books on design. The exhibition will compile objects, graphics, films, manuscripts and printed materials of a number of exhibits for the first time. Modern works in areas of critical and social design will create an idea of the scale of the influence of the personality and work of the papapy.
Initially devoting himself to the career of an industrial designer, in the X years he came to the consistent criticism of consumption, which in the future brought him world fame. Papapan’s position was reflected by projects, many of which were developed by him together with students and colleagues, including televisions and radio stations for African countries, electric cars, as well as objects like stimulating Fingermajig’s touch - and a series of Living Cubes, which was a furniture for independent assembly, which can be modified in accordance with various needs.
Books by V. Papanek Foundation, the main role of the papanca lies in its activity as a theorist and arbitrator of a new, critical understanding of design. He gave lectures at world universities, inspiring entire generations of students, and tirelessly expanded the social field of discussion about the role and possibilities of design. Since the year, Papapank conducted a series of television programs about design, which were broadcast throughout the United States.
The books of Papapan “Design for the Real World” were translated into more than twenty languages, “How things do not work” and “Design on a human scale” fixed the reputation of the pioneer of alternative design. In them, he criticizes a blind faith in consumption with a stinging irony and turns to the ideas of the protest generation of the year as a way to solve the practical problems of everyday life of a large number of people.
Papanyk Foundation The exhibition consists of four sections that consider in detail the life and work of the papapa. The exhibition is opened by an extensive introductory media installation that tells about the ideas of the designer in modern context and traces the main facts of the papapa biography from his escape from Europe to gaining international recognition.
The organizers of the exhibition for the first time gained access to the heritage of the heritage of the papank, stored in the Papapki Foundation at the Vienna University of Applied Arts.
The meeting includes a number of previously not exhibited units, including notes, letters, furniture items, objects of the Ethnographic collection of Pananek, as well as more than a thousand slides that the designer used in his lectures. Papanek Foundation two of the following sections of the exhibition are devoted to key topics in the work of Papapan, including fundamental criticism of consumerism, attention to the social minorities and needs of the so -called “third world”, sustainable development issues, as well as the culture of “Makerism”, that is, the creation and production of objects using its own resources, which originates in motion in motion "Make yourself" x.
Visitors will be able to see a variety of Papapanes, his colleagues and students, including the work of the Danish designer Suzanne Kofod, who developed the first international accessories symbol in the year. Authors are occupied by such complex topics as global climatic changes, mobile gender identity, consumer behavior and economic realities of migration; Thus, their practices resonate the questions that Papapa raised already in the 10th.
At the same time, modern designers boldly go beyond the normative framework of the Western world, in which men dominate, part of which the papanke remained, despite all his attempts to break with him. Acquaintance with Papapom as a person opens the way to comprehend a larger topic: design values as a tool of influence. In the end, what was revolutionary for the Papapa era is becoming generally accepted today: the design is not limited to the creation of the form, but is considered as a tool for a targeted transformation, the use of which should take into account the social and ethical aspects.
Today's discourse of social design and design thinking is based on the ideas of Papapa. The Vitra Design Museum exhibition is designed to pay tribute to the papanek as one of the first to bring these concepts for discussion, and as one of the most important thinkers in modern design. At the same time, the exhibition shows how a socially oriented approach to the design that the papapa professed can make our world better - and how it changes our world today.
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