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SWANN, David
(2015).
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2015.
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| Creators: | SWANN, David |
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| Abstract: | The 2015 Biennial will deal with the theme of aesthetics, under the title: The meanings of beauty The ninth edition of the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne, which will be held from the 12th March to the 12th April 2015, questions the importance of forms and the meanings they impart to functions, to uses and the quality of life. What values are transmitted by aesthetics? To what intents and purposes? What do forms say about ways of life, about uses and practices in society? What do they murmur to us about the state of the world? At a time when industrial production is becoming increasingly globalized, how can we reconcile each person’s need for identity with the ever more homogeneous nature of symbols produced by design? Can this discipline liberate the desire and the identity to drive them towards alternative ambitions? How can these identities be reconciled with those of makes and brands? What is the role that design will assume in the aesthetic experience of humanity? How can we cultivate a plurality of forms and experiences? With international selections, the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2015 will expose objects, services, installations and environments to its di erent groups of public (designers, enterprises, students, school children and the general public), proposing a sensory experience. The Biennial’s intention is to show that other ways and means are possible compared to the monotonous and repetitive productions of globalization: the aim of the exhibition curators and scenographers is to help its visitors discover and feel what aesthetic expression can offer. Dr David Swann's ABC Syringe is showcased within HYPERVITAL, an exhibition curated by Benjamin Loyauté. |
| Official URL: | http://www.biennale-design.com/saint-etienne/2015/... |
| Item Type: | Show/Exhibition |
| Additional Information: | HYPERVITAL Saying and doing... finding the perfect harmony, the right balance and measure. We are in a period of great creativity, of inventions and intense production, but also of conflicts and shortages that are reorganising the world. We need to build a pragmatic future just as we need to dream the possible based on stark realities and naked truths. The edification of beauty in a world is as much about the truth of beauty as it is about the beauty of truth. The Hypervital exhibition thus develops an aesthetics of unveiling through the experiencing of truth as the vital bedrock of our imagination. We must deconstruct the models of acceptance and opposition and bring together as many minds as possible ready to shape an architecture of new thought to design tomorrow's world. This exhibition has grown out of a reflection linked to the publication of an article in the Guardian reporting on a NASA-funded study carried out by mathematician Safa Motesharrei and a team of social scientists. The media shockwave it generated referred to the series of factors that will inevitably lead to a change of civilisation if we do not change any of our behaviours. The report entitled Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use of Resources in the Collapse or Sustainability of Societies insists on a multitude of criteria to which we now more than ever need to find a response. It is up to us as designers to contribute to the development of scenarios that can build a revival and be vectors of a Happy End. To avoid fatalism of all kinds and unrestrained gloom-mongering, it is time to let go of the certainties and models in which our world is steeped and reconnect with humanity and nature. «Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no-one thinks of changing himself» (Leon Tolstoy). Considering design as a language with an aesthetics endowed with meaning, a depository of a system that is at once mathematical and poetic, we have a duty to reconcile our gestures and our practices with our existence. We must improve the real world and evoke fictions of a renaissance. Hypervital is thus built on the analysis of a world in crisis, being shaken up by its own practices, its discoveries, its ideals and its failings. |
| Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Art and Design Research Centre |
| Date: | 12 March 2015 |
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| Event Location: | Saint-Etienne |
| ID Code: | 12410 |
| Deposited By: | David Swann |
| Deposited On: | 17 Jun 2016 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 22:45 |
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