Vitra Design Museum + Vitra Schaudepot17,00 € / 15,00 €*Vitra Design Museum 11,00 € / 9,00 €*Vitra Schaudepot8,00 € / 6,00 €*Architecture tour 2h14,00 € / 10,00 €* Guided tours 1h (Exhibition tour, Production tour or Behind the Scenes)7,00 € / 5,00 €**Reduced prices: young people from age 12, students, seniors,disabled persons, groups of more than 10 people, combination of 3 and more tickets/person, children under 12 years of age free
Vitra Design MuseumCharles-Eames-Str. 2D-79576 Weil am RheinT +49.7621.702.3200F +49.7621.702.3590info@design-museum.de
Daily 10 am – 6 pm. The museum is open on all Sundays and public holidays.On 24 and 31 December the museum isopen 10 am – 2 pm.
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Objects of Desire:Surrealism and Design
28.09.2019 – 19.01.2020Vitra Design MuseumAfter the Wall: Design since 1989
26.10.2019 – 23.02.2020Vitra SchaudepotTypology: An Ongoing Study of Everyday Items
07.12.2019 – 03.05.2020Vitra Design Museum GalleryThe Vitra Design Museum Collection – 1800 to the Present
Permanent exhibitionVitra Schaudepot
Victor Papanek
31.10.2019 – 02.02.2020Barcelona Design MuseumBarcelona, Spain
Hello, Robot
03.11.2019 – 09.02.2020V&A DundeeDundee, Scotland
The Bauhaus #itsalldesign
14.03.2019 – 01.12.2019Designmuseum DanmarkCopenhagen, Denmark
Alexander GirardA Designer's Universe
23.11.2019 – 01.03.2020 Palm Springs Art MuseumPalm Springs, USA
All exhibitions
The collection of the Vitra Design Museum ranks among the most important holdings of furniture design worldwide. It contains some 7000 pieces of furniture, a vast assemblage of lighting objects and numerous archives, as well as the Collection of the Eames Office, or the estates of Verner Panton and Alexander Girard. On 4 June 2016 the Vitra Schaudepot was opened, created by the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, in which the Vitra Design Museum presents key pieces of its collection.
Guided tours through the Vitra Schaudepot:Highlights from the CollectionEvery Saturday and Sunday,2 pmBehind the ScenesEvery first Friday of the month,3 pm (in German)Focus Tour: MaterialEvery third Friday of the month, 3 pm (in German)
Vitra Design Museum + Vitra Schaudepot17,00 € / 15,00 €*Vitra Design Museum 11,00 € / 9,00 €*Vitra Schaudepot8,00 € / 6,00 €*Architecture tour 2h14,00 € / 10,00 €*Guided tours 1h (Exhibition tour, Production tour or Behind the Scenes)7,00 € / 5,00 €**Reduced prices: young people from age 12, students, seniors,disabled persons, groups of more than 10 people, combination of 3 and more tickets/person, children under 12 years of age free
Daily 10 am – 6 pm.The museum is openon all Sundays and public holidays.On 24 and 31 December the museum is open 10 am – 2 pm.
Design is much more than just giving form to something. It is part of a larger social structure and thus can be a tool for political change. This was the approach of the designer, author, and activist Victor J. Papanek (1923 – 1998), who anticipated an understanding for design as a force for social good that is more relevant today than ever. Fleeing Nazi persecution in Vienna, Papanek emigrated to the United States in 1939 where he became the twentieth century’s most influential pioneer of social, ecological, and politically oriented design that boomed from the 1960s onwards. A manifesto of design activism, his book »Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change« (1970) has been translated into over twenty languages and never gone out of print since its original release, remaining one of the most widely read books on design ever published. In it, Papanek pleads for radical change: Instead of being in the service of mass consumption and profiteering, design should deal with the challenges of the »real world«, like those of inclusion, social justice, and sustainability.At the heart of the exhibition lies Papanek’s extensive preoccupation with a design that lives up to its social and political responsibilities. It treats his preoccupation with the socially excluded (among which he also counted women, children, and the elderly), his commitment for the interests of areas then called the »Third World«, for ecology and sustainability, as well as for a culture of making, of creating and producing with one’s own resources. Besides exhibits from Papanek’s life and work including both original design objects as well as reproductions, original photographs, illustrations, and drawings, the exhibition will include contributions from major contemporaries such as George Nelson, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, and the radical design group »Global Tools«. These references will be complemented by work of contemporary designers and artists from in the fields of critical design, social design, and transition design, showing Papanek’s huge impact on the design world of today.
This exhibition is a cooperation between the Vitra Design Museum and the Barcelona Design Museum, in collaboration with the Victor J. Papanek Foundation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
Space600 – 1,000 m² / 6,000 – 10,000 sq ft
CuratorsAmelie Klein, Vitra Design MuseumProf. Alison Clarke, Victor J. Papanek Foundation, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Detailed informationPhotosConcept
Exhibition tour29.09.2018 – 10.03.2019, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany 30.10.2019 – 02.02.2020, Barcelona Design Museum, Spain07.03.2020 – 24.05.2020, C-mine design centre, Genk, Belgium20.06.2020 – 18.10.2020, Design Museum Den Bosch, The Netherlands
For further information please contact Cora.Harris@design-museum.de.
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