7. June 7
Looking Ahead: Objects of Change (Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen)
and Depot in general

Humans are meaning making machines we find patterns.
What does a curator do?
An art conservator?
An art historian?
An art critic?
An art theorist?

What is a wunderkammer (wonder cabinet)?
What is a vitrine?
What is a natural history museum?

How would the space have been different if it wasn't glass on all sides, but only glass on the top? How would it have been different if each case were more specifically labeled? Why did they choose to make the space the way they made it?

How do you orchestrate a context that doesn't overdetermine or underdetermine meaning? How do you make connections possible without forcing them?

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Droog 30. Design or Non-design? [Droog] (Nieuwe Instituut)
Why are Droog's designs funny (or are they)? 
How is rebellion dependent on social and historical context? What is Memphis School design? How is Droog's design post-Memphis School?
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Designing the Social (Nieuwe Instituut) 
Property squatting, Night clubs. Where are the margins for change in a city? (Constant's "New Babylon').
For whom does a city exist? Why does a city exist? (Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone). Can a city be an event? Can the event be movable? Can revolution be local, provisional, even personal?