Louise Schouwenberg Livres

An intersectional approach to design that incorporates one’s context and self The "auto-ethnographic turn" in design is emerging from a growing recognition of design’s capacity to make sense of one’s world. This book’s first section, Ideas and Dialogues, compiles reflections and conversations between theorists, educators and practitioners on conceptions of auto-ethnography and the self. The second section, Projects and Practices, demonstrates auto-ethnographic approaches.Contributors include : Anna Aagaard Jensen, Gijs Assmann, Bruno Baietto, Jurgen Bey, Joel Blanco, Théophile Blandet, Jan Boelen, Hsin Min Chan, Chongjin Chen, Meghan Clarke, Adelaide Di Nunzio, Billy Ernst, Hi Kyung Eun, Teresa Fernández-Pello, Andrea Gaspar, Konstantin Grcic, Metincan Güzel, Jing He, Aurelie Hoegy, Hicham Khalidi, Žan Kobal, Lorraine Legrand, Gabriel A. Maher, Micheline Nahra, Thomas Nathan, Miguel Parrrra, Timo de Rijk, Marie Rime, Sjeng Scheijen, Bianca Schick, Carlos Sfeir Vottero, Weixiao Shen, Matilde Stolfa, Oli Stratford, Marianne Theunissen, Goda Verikaite, Erik Viskil, Barbara Visser and Ben Shai van der Wal.

"Reproducing Scholten and Baijings" offers an in-depth look at the creative processes of the innovative European design duo. It explores their collaborations with renowned manufacturers, showcasing textiles, ceramics, and more through photographs and sketches from their archives. A comprehensive project list makes it a valuable resource for design professionals and enthusiasts.

In the slipstream of conceptual art, the intimate interweaving of meaning and materi- alization in art and design came to be discredited in the second half of the twentieth century. The masters program titled Material Utopias at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, recently put an end to this formula by abolishing the unproductive hierarchy separating concept from making, and content from process. In Material Utopia, various authors reflect on the history of dematerialization and deskilling, the manifold meanings of materials in art and design, and the challenges for education when the innovative power of the artistic process is celebrated. The book includes texts by Max Bruinsma, Amanda du Preez, Domeniek Ruyters, Louise Schouwenberg, Aaron Schuster, and Tamar Shafrir. Book no. 3 is part of a new and on-going series from the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.

Design theorist Louise Schouwenberg examines the meaning and agency of things as mediators between people and world, both within everyday life and the museum context.Moreover, she questions the market's obsession with novelty in design, and searches for answers how to distinguish novelty for the sake of novelty from true cultural innovation in design, of which a museum archive testifies.The themes, examples and images are chosen in close consultation with designer Hella Jongerius.Graphic design by Irma Boom.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Die Neue Sammlung/Beyond The New at The Design Museum, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (10 November 2017 - 16 September 2018).