The Wim Crouwel Lecture is organized annually by the Wim Crouwel Institute at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. A knowledgeable and high-profile individual is invited to address a current theme in the field of design and offer new perspectives on and/or through graphic design. The Wim Crouwel Lecture is a co-production between the Wim Crouwel Institute, Allard Pierson, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Wim Crouwel Lezing 9# | 15 November 2024 | Amal Alhaag | Lies Ros
'The End of Design ... as we know it ;)'
Date: Friday 15 November 2024
Time: 16:00 - 17:15 hrs
Location: Auditorium, Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam
PROGRAMME
15:30 Registration _ Teijin Auditorium, Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10 Amsterdam
16:00 Welcome _ Thomas Castro, Curator of Graphic Design, Stedelijk Museum
Introduction _ Rob Huisman, Chairman Wim Crouwel Instituut
16:05 Guest Speaker _ Lies Ros, ‘la grande dame’ of Dutch graphic design, co-founder of WILD PLAKKEN
16:20 Main Speaker _ Amal Alhaag, curator, researcher, and co-founder of metro54
17:00 Q&A _ Amal Alhaag and Lies Ros
17:15 End of the programme
The End of Design … as we know it ;)
A speculative talk on daydreaming, discomfort and togetherness.
‘The End of Design … as we know it ;)’ zooms into what it means to daydream about the end of this world. Who creates, designs, dismantles or provides us with a language for alternative forms of solidarity when the worlds falls apart in a thousand pieces every day? Who still needs design then? This informal lecture highlights, through these questions, the everyday histories, stories and strategies that feed us with wayward ideas and practices about the world that one wants to inhabit.
Past events:
Wim Crouwel Lezing 8# | November 2023 | Marian Duff | 'Zoek het uit!'
Photo credit: Simon Pillaud
Wim Crouwel Lezing #7 | 2022 | Alice Twemlow | 'Disquieting Histories: Notes on Silence in the Graphic Design Archive.
Wim Crouwel Lezing #6 | 2019 | Marleen Stikker | 'Het terugwinnen van onze digitale soevereiniteit en de attitude die dat vraagt van een hedendaagse ontwerper'
Wim Crouwel Lezing #5 | 2018 | Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz | 'Constructing Ideas of Dutch Design'
Wim Crouwel Lezing #4 | 2017 | Alice Twemlow | 'Design Criticism in the Age of the Anthropocene'
Wim Crouwel Lezing #3 | 2016 | Huda AbiFares | ‘Multiscript Typography for a Global Citizenship’
Wim Crouwel Lezing #2 | 2015 | Gilian Schrofer
Wim Crouwel Lezing #1 | 2014 | Joost Elffers