Organizing Things at the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, Berlin
Arguably there is no museum permanent collection exhibition more painstakingly, fastidiously, organized than that of the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, Berlin: what initially resembles a hurried attempt to cram as much as possible into as few vitrines as possible, reveals itself on closer, more careful, inspection as vitrine after vitrine of disparate everyday objects organized according to a wide variety of characteristics and properties, such as, for example, objects formed from specific materials, objects for specific tasks, objects containing specific flaws, etc, etc, etc…
As an exercise in organizing objects of daily use it is borderline pathological.1
And a most informative visualisation of the organization that is inherent in the craft of the museologist and archivist.
With the exhibition Organizing Things the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, Berlin, turn their attention less to the whats of museal collections as to the hows, and in doing so allow for differentiated reflections on organizing, both institutional and private…….
Radio smow: A Shelving Playlist…….
Following the #smowblogfact revelation from Vitra Work at Orgatec Cologne 2018 that the smow blog office is devoid of shelving, we were inundated with an e-mail asking why? why has the smow blog office no shelving….?
A very simple question, and one which for the first time caused us to pose ourselves a much more fundamental question, why? why, has the smow blog office no shelving….?
Considerations which quickly evolved and diverged to concern themselves with the more general questions of what, how, when and why shelving…….
5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for December 2017
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a ticket for a design exhibition.
On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, two tickets for two design exhibitions, and a ticket for a design exhibition.
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me…… You get the idea.
Our five goohoold rings for December 2017 are new architecture and design exhibitions in Winterthur, Barcelona, New York, Munich and Moscow.
DMY Berlin 2015: SF Modular Shelving System by Philipp Beisheim
There is little in this world that brings us more pleasure than a good modular shelving system. We know that
5 New Design Exhibitions for November 2013
As we are sure you will appreciate we tend to shy away from recommending anything we haven’t seen and/or tested
Knax by Harrit and Sørensen for loca
A few months ago our local baker started offering a new bread roll variety called KNAX You can imagine our
(smow)abseits: Gangsta Lean by Matt Braun
Sometimes we really do ask why we invest so much time and effort travelling to design shows, when all we