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Stories from Central Europe II2012 Budapest Design Week

Page 022012 Budapest Design Week


OverviewThe theme of the 2012 Budapest Design Week is ‘Slow Design’, which promotes a holistic approach to design production and consumption. It celebrates ideas of cradle-to-cradle, sustainable development, regionalism and cultural diversity. Largely inspired by the Slow Food Movement, its ultimate belief is, that an overall improvement on the quality of contemporary consumer products will lead to a better quality of life for designers, producers and consumer, as well as support local industries and communities.

Blood Mountain’s response to the theme is a programme of public events, comprising a seminar about the recent history and future potential of industrial design, two workshops for design enthusiasts of all ages and guided tours to its newly commissioned work, Edible Estate #12: Budapest. Further contributions are made to the Design Week’s popular Pecha Kucha lecture series and to its namesake feature exhibition.

Booking is recommended for all events: [email protected] otherwise stated, events are free and take place in English.Please note that venues and times vary and spaces are limited. Doors open 30 minutes before scheduled start.

Address: Blood Mountain Foundation, Vérhalom utca 27/c, Budapest 1025 [email protected] | bloodmountain.org | +36.1.326.1844 | +36.30.415.2123

Public transport:Take bus 91, 191 or 291 to ‘Mandula utca’ or Vérhalom utca’ stop and walk five minutes, or walk uphill from 4/6 tram stop at Margaret Bridge (Buda side)

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Tom Sloan: Stories from Central Europe: an exhibition of three concept collections | © Blood Mountain / András Káré, 2011

Public ProgrammeWednesday 03 Octobervenue: Doboz bar and bistro (Klauzál utca 10, Budapest 1072)

EVENT: Pecha Kucha, 7 to 10pmFor tickets and more information: www.designweek.hu

Taking part in the sixth rendition of the popular Pecha Kucha lecture series, which invites speakers to present 20 slides for maximum 20 second per image, industrial designer and Blood Mountain co-founder Tom Sloan will share his interpretation of ‘Slow Design’. He will also discuss Blood Mountain’s varied contributions to this year’s programme and explore the mission of Stories from Central Europe, an ongoing reserch project, which launched as an exhibition and public programme at the 2011 Budapest Design Week.

Organised by KÉK - Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center



Friday 05 OctoberVenue: Blood Mountain (Vérhalom utca 27/c, Budapest 1025)

SEMINAR: Design Futures, 2 to 5pmAudience: industry stakeholders (students, designers, critics, consumers) | in EnglishCost: free with prior registration, limited capacity, book early: [email protected]

The event examines the changing course of design thinking of recent decades and speculates on its future possibilities. With contributions from leading international experts:

Fiona Raby is professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London. She studied Architecture at the Royal College before working for Kei’ichi Irie Architects in Tokyo and also holds an MPhil in Computer Related Design from the Royal College. Fiona is a founding member of the CRD Research Studio where she worked as a Senior Research Fellow leading externally funded research projects. She has taught in Architecture for over 10 years and is the co-founder and co-director of the London-based design practice, Dunne & Raby. With an aim to use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies, the studio is an industry leader in the growing practice and disourse of ‘critical design’. www.dunneandraby.co.uk

Thomas Geisler is design curator at the MAK - Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna. As a member of the collective Neigungsgruppe Design he co-founded Vienna Design Week and co-directed the festival’s programme until 2010. A trained and practicing designer, Thomas’ interests have extended to design theory and material culture studies with research and teaching commitments at the Vienna University of Applied Arts, the Vienna Technical University and University of Applied Science in Graz. His publications include ‘Career Ladders: (No) Instructions for Design Work! (Vienna 2007)’ and ‘Victor Papanek: Design for the Real World (annotated German re-edition, Vienna/New York 2009)’. His current exhibition ‘Made 4 You. Design for Change’ (on view at MAK until 07 October) presents a provocative case for design’s critical role in the future of our societies and economies, and also represents Thomas’ own decisive voice in developing a critical discourse for contemporary industrial design. www.MAK.at

Tim Vermeulen is a curator, writer and consultant of contemporary art, design and architecture in Belgium and The Netherlands. In 2004 he started Utrecht Manifest, a biennial for Social Design with the Dutch furniture brand Pastoe and Utrecht’s Centraal Museum. In 2009 he joined Premsela, The Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion where he works as the programme manager of its international intiative called Designworld. Finishing his studies in 1998 in Fine Arts and Photography in Brussels, Tim co-founded Bullet, an exhibition space for photography and contemporary art and A-Prior, a magazine on contemporary art specailising on the Low Countries. www.premsela.org



Blood Mountain’s premises | © Blood Mountain / András Káré, 2012

Edwin Heathcote is a British-born architect and designer of Hungarian descent. He has been the architecture and design critic of The Financial Times since 1999 and also writes as its part-time cultural columnist; regarded an influential independent voice on diverse issues of the arts and the built environment. Edwin has lived and worked in Budapest intermittently over the years and is the founder of Izé (in colloquial Hungarian meaning ‘things’), a hardware manufacturer producing in Hungary and specialising in bespoke ironmongery and lighting by leading architects and designers. Edwin is a trustee of Open House UK and founding trustee of Blood Mountain Foundation. www.ize.info | www.ft.com/intl/life-arts/design

Schedule

13.30: Doors open14.00-14.05: Welcome by Blood Mountain14.05-14.15: Introduction to speakers and Session 1 by Edwin Heathcote, chairperson14.15-14.30: Speaker 1: Fiona Raby14.30-14.45: Speaker 2: Tim Vermeulen 14.45-15.00: Speaker 3: Thomas Geisler15:00-16:00: Discussion about possible design futures with new contributions by speakers16:00: Formal end to the event, opportunity to talk further over drinks

Produced with support from the British Council, the Dutch Embassy and Lánchíd 19 Design Hotel



Bare Conductive: LED Badge Workshop | © Bare Conductive, 2012

Saturday 06 OctoberVenue: Blood Mountain (Vérhalom utca 27/c, Budapest 1025)

WORKSHOP: LED Badge Making, 11am to 1pmAudience: 6 to 12 year-olds | in Hungarian and English Cost: 4000 HUF | limited capacity, book early: [email protected]

Part of Blood Mountain’s education programme, the event provides younger audiences with the opportunity to consider the concept and possible practice of ‘Slow Design’. Led by the UK-based design studio, Bare Conductive and supervised by Blood Mountain’s art educator. Bare Conductive is the mastermind of four recent graduates from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College in London and focuses on the development and manufacture of electrically conductive materials. With an ambition to engage people of all ages and capabilties with electronics and technology, the studio’s products provide exciting new platforms for prototyping, experimenting and learning about electronics. It first product ‘Bare Paint’ (launched 2011) is the first commercially available non-toxic paint with a capacity to conduct electricity. Its second product, ‘Bare Skin’ is in development and aims to become the first conductive paint suitable for body application. Bare Conductive received an Honorable Mention at the Prix ARS Electronica in 2010 and won the British Technology Strategy Board’s 2011 Disruptive Solutions competition. www.bareconductive.com

Produced with support from the British Council



Fritz Haeg: Edible Estate #12 (detail, July 2012) | © Blood Mountain / András Káré, 2012

Sunday 07 October Venue: Szente-Lénárd Family Garden, Nádasdy utca 9, Budapest 1192, Wekerle Estate

TOUR: Edible Estate #12: Wekerle, Budapest, 11am to 1pm11am: in English | 12pm: in Hungarian

Audience: design enthusiasts of all ages Cost: free with prior registration | limited capacity, book early: [email protected] to weather conditions, on day of event please check: www.designweek.hu/en/news

Join Fritz Haeg, artist-activist-designer and Blood Mountain’s June 2012 Artist-in-Residence for a guided-tour and candid discussion about the Wekerle garden at the end of the growing season. Commissioned by Blood Mountain, Edible Estates #12: Budapest was established in summer 2012 at Wekerle Estate: a former social housing and innovative garden programme of the early 20th century, which has since become a middle-class suburb. The project aims to revive Wekerle’s original mission to support the health, social and economic well-being of its residents. The site was selected through an open call and is located in the front lawn of the Szente-Lénárd Family, a third generation Wekerle family. The garden was designed by Haeg in partnership with the family and built with the help of volunteers. It is maintained and the produce is consumed by the host family. This is the 12th site of Haeg’s Edible Estate Regional Prototype Garden project, which launched in 2006 and consists of six American (Kansas, California, New Jersey, Texas, Maryland, Connecticut, New York City) and four international sites (London, Rome, Istanbul, Budapest). www.edibleestates.org

Produced with support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts



Sunday 07 October Venue: Blood Mountain (Vérhalom utca 27/c, Budapest 1025)

WORKSHOP: Making a Light Switch, 3 to 5pm Audience: design enthusiasts 18 years and olderCost: 4000 HUF (free for university students with valid student ID)Limited capacity, book early: [email protected]

In line with Blood Mountain’s mission to support critical discourse in design, participants learn to make the omnipresent object of our contemporary life, led by UK-based design studio, Bare Conductive.

Bare Conductive is the mastermind of four recent graduates from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College in London and focuses on the development and manufacture of electrically conductive materials. With an ambition to engage people of all ages and capabilties with electronics and technology, the studio’s products provide exciting new platforms for prototyping, experimenting and learning about electronics. It first product ‘Bare Paint’ (launched 2011) is the first commercially available non-toxic paint with a capacity to conduct electricity. Its second product, ‘Bare Skin’ is in development and aims to become the first conductive paint suitable for body application. Bare Conductive received an Honorable Mention at the Prix ARS Electronica in 2010 and won the British Technology Strategy Board’s 2011 Disruptive Solutions competition. bareconductive.com

Produced with support from the British Council

Bare Conductive: Making a Light Switch Workshop | © Bare Conductive, 2012



ExhibitionVenue: Design Terminal, Hungarian Design Centre, Erzsébet Square, Budapest 1061

Slow Design 28 September to 28 OctoberOpening: Friday 28 September at 6pm, open daily midday to 8pm

Blood Mountain’s contribution to festival’s keynote exhibition, curated by Rita Halasi, include:

Tom Sloan: Hungarian Traveller Collection Commissioned by Blood Mountain for the 2011 Budapest Design Week, this is a concept collection inspired by the art of gymnastics and a spectacular story of socialism. On display: bench, bag and poster. For full project description see ‘projects’: www.bloodmountain.org, www.tomsloan.net

Fritz Haeg: Edible Estate #12: Wekerle, BudapestCommissioned by Blood Mountain for its June 2012 Artist-in-Residence programme, it is the latest chapter in artist’s international kitchen garden programme. On display: documentation film (produced in partnership with 56Films and directed by Réka Pigniczky) and photographs (by András Káré) For more information: www.edibleestates.org

Bare Conductive: Pop Up House and Electro Card Workshop kits This London-based design studio pushes the boundary of design through education and innovation and leads two workshops for Blood Mountain during this year’s Budapest Design Week. On display: two kits using studio’s innovative Bare Pain invention. For more information: www.bareconductive.com/light-up-paper-houses | www.bareconductive.com/electro-card

Technology Will Save Us: Lumiphone Workshop kitThis London-based ‘haberdashery’ for technology is committed to teaching design consumers to make and appreciate new technologies beyond their mere consumption. On display: one of three workshop kits presented at Blood Mountain during the 2011 Budapest Design Week. For more information: www.technologywillsaveus.org/resources/lumiphone

Curated by Rita Halasi, Director of the 2012 Budapest Design Week

For more information about Stories from Central Europe II and Blood Mountain’s other activities, visit www.bloodmountain.org or email [email protected]



Fritz Haeg: Edible Estate #12 (June 2012) | © Blood Mountain / András Káré, 2012

Fritz Haeg: Edible Estate #12 (August 2012) | © Blood Mountain / András Káré, 2012



The Hungarian Traveller (bench), Stories from Central Europe | © Blood Mountain / András Káré, 2011

The Hungarian Traveller (briefcase), Stories from Central Europe | © Blood Mountain / András Káré, 2011

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