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| DMY Berlin | Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities | Belgrade Design Week |
| Tempelhof Airport, Berlin | Museum of Arts & Design, New York | Various venues, Belgrade |
| 1-5 June 2011 | 7 June 2011 – 18 September 2011 | 23-28 May 2011 |
| Copying (a subject explored in our Originals issue back in Icon 094) is the theme of DMY Berlin this year. Organisers of the city's annual design festival are hoping the hot topic will prove fruitful for their five-day run of events that include a Pecha Kucha night, talks, exhibitions and an extended version of last year's DMY Maker Lab – a chance for designers and visitors to learn about new technologies in a dedicated 3,000sq m workshop space. www.dmy-berlin.com | MAD's exhibition is a fascinating look at contemporary art at the miniature end of the scale. Dioramas, models, snow globes and installations present alternative takes on everyday reality. Contemporary artists with an interest in artificial environments such as Alan Wolfson and Tracey Snelling (whose 2010 work Foot & Ass is pictured) will exhibit under four themes: Unnatural Nature, Apocalyptic Archaeology, Dreams and Memories, and Voyeur/Provocateur. www.madmuseum.org | The annual festival in the Serbian capital is now in its sixth year and continues to draw some of the biggest names in international design to its vibrant mix of talks and exhibitions, with an urban music festival thrown in for good measure. This year sees visits from Snøhetta, Israeli designer Arik Levy (pictured) and German furniture designer Stefan Diez. The emerging local scene is represented by industrial designer Marko Lukovic and architects Dejan Miljkovic and Jovan Mitrovic. www.belgradedesignweek.com |
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| Manmade Environment: New Nordic Scopes | Design Miami/Basel | Young Architects Program |
| Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm | Messe Basel Hall 5, Basel | MAXXI Piazza, Rome and MoMA PS1, New York |
| 16 June 2011 – 18 September 2011 | 14-18 June 2011 | 26 June 2011 – 26 September 2011 |
| Manmade Environment, an exhibition of new Nordic landscape architecture, has been making its way across Scandinavia since last September. This month, it arrives in Stockholm where visitors can experience design projects that go beyond aesthetics to improve the sustainable development of rural and urban areas. The projects are displayed on tiered shapes (pictured) that rise above the visitor to give an idea of the layered and diverse landscapes that host them. www.arkitekturmuseet.se | Design Miami/Basel gives design followers two reasons to make a stop in Switzerland after Milan Furniture Fair and New York's International Contemporary Furniture Fair earlier in the year. The first is a spread of well-known international design galleries selling limited editions and design classics. The second is Design On/Site, a showcase of independent galleries that drive the contemporary design scene. At the latter, we'll be looking out for London's Gallery Libby Sellers, which represents the designs of Julia Lohmann and Peter Marigold. www.designmiami.com | For 12 years the Young Architects Program has offered an up-and-coming practice the chance to design and build a temporary structure at MoMA PS1. This year MoMA has teamed up with the MAXXI Museum in Rome for its first international edition. Brooklyn-based architect Interboro Partners will create Holding Pattern, a canopy of taut string across the PS1 courtyard, while in Rome, stARTT's WHATAMI will consist of artificial green hills surrounding Zaha Hadid's museum. |
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| RCA Show Kensington | The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World | |
| RCA Kensington Site, London | Tate Britain, London | |
| 24 June 2011 – 3 July 2011 | 14 June 2011 – 4 September 2011 | |
| It's time to check out the work of the latest crop of graduates from London's Royal College of Art. More than 450 art and design postgraduates will be showing their work, split between the RCA's two campuses, but we will be keeping an eye on the Kensington show, where work from the departments of architecture and design, fashion and textiles and applied art will be spilling out of the studios and into the staircases and corridors of the Stevens Building. www.rca.ac.uk | Tate Britain presents a major exhibition on vorticism, the art movement that emerged between 1914 and 1918 in London and New York. English painter Wyndham Lewis instigated the rebellion against conventional values in art with a bold use of geometry, sharp lines and colour. This exhibition focuses on the transatlantic nature of the movement and its manifestation in literature through the groundbreaking journal BLAST. www.tate.org.uk | |
June 2011
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