Schlagwort: Alexandra Masgras
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Garden Futures and the Temporality of Critique
Weiterlesen: Garden Futures and the Temporality of CritiqueThe field of design has long evinced a self-reflexive relationship to the realm of non-human life conceptualized as “nature.” From the development of biomorphic form in response to the incipient industrialization of the crafts in the mid-nineteenth century to contemporary “eco-friendly” objects designed to sustain complex biotopes, designers have espoused a range of positions toward the transformation of nature by human agency.
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The Missing Link
Weiterlesen: The Missing LinkLinn Burchert and Alexandra Masgras review Vernetzte Welten, on view at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg By the 1970s the term globalization gained currency in academic and corporate discourse as a means of describing the increasing interconnectedness of economies and cultures. Now an indubitable fact, globalization stirs attention across the political spectrum. While right-wing detractors are touting a protectionist vision of the (ethnic) nation-state, centrists retreat to shallow attempts to defend globalization as a peace-promoting, culture-enriching project. The contradictions brought about by globalization are also reflected in the legacy of the left. In the late 1990s and early 2000s left-wing groups…
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Mimesis or Ecology? Alexandra Masgras and Linn Burchert on Bauhaus Ecologies at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Weiterlesen: Mimesis or Ecology? Alexandra Masgras and Linn Burchert on Bauhaus Ecologies at the Bauhaus Museum DessauSince the Bauhaus centennial in 2019, academic and popular interest in what is often hailed as the world’s most famous design school has flourished. Arguably, the institution’s plight at the hands of right-wing municipal governments and later of the ruling Nazi party generated interest in several aspects of the Bauhäuslers’ practice identified as progressive. Their internationalism, the struggle against tradition and convention, as well as their gender-bending practices have all received renewed attention in recent years. The exhibition Bauhaus Ecologies held at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau (4 April – 2 November 2025) advances this line of inquiry by investigating the…