| |
|
On Time
23.05.2007 – 02.09.2007
Galerie
|
Kunststoffarmbanduhr «Research Division», Werkentwurf, um 1970, Tissot S.A., Le Locle |
Time is one of the last luxuries. Taking as a starting point the hypothesis that the time budget represents a key factor in design innovation, this exhibition examines the validity of this assertion where it begins to show its influence: in the design of instruments that measure time. The formal and functional diversity of the appliances that discipline the way we deal with time is surprising – from the wristwatch to the GPS, from the timetable to the mobile phone, from the contraceptive pill to the family planner or from the digital cuckoo clock to the handheld computer.
The fundamental debate about timeless versus contemporary design is injected with new impulses. In the highly traditional “time industry” these impulses arrived remarkably late, but were all the more influential. This exhibition lays the emphasis on visually experienced phenomena at the interface of creativity, invention, production and the market. Together with a socio-theoretical input On Time opens up a direct approach, oriented on experience, to a topical theme and its significance in our everyday lives.
Programme accompanying the exhibition
Sunday 17 June, 11.00 to 15.00
Music – On Time
At each full hour the exhibition becomes an experimental stage where students of the Jugendmusikschule der Stadt Zürich translate the relationship between time and music into sound. At the same time in the lecture hall larger formations play on the theme.
Tuesday, 19 June, 19.45
Utility and Desire: Two „Reports” of Watchmaking Innovation
Nicolas Babey, professor at the Haute école d’arts appliqués La Chaux-de-Fonds, talks about innovation strategies for the design of the timepieces of tomorrow. In English.
Tuesday, 21 August, 19.45
„Fast so kompliziert wie eine Frau"
Tanja Warring, Curator of the IWC-Museum, talks about the presentation of watches and clocks in catalogues and print campaigns of the International Watch Co. Schaffhausen from 1900 until today. In German.
Guided tours of the exhibition
Public guided tours take place each Tuesday at 18.30 and each first Sunday of the month (3.6., 1.7., 5.8., 2.9.) at 15.00.
|
May 2007
|
| Tues., 29.5., |
18.30 |
Norbert Wild, curator Design Collection, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
|
| June 2007 |
| Sun., 3.6., |
15.00 |
Norbert Wild
|
| Tues., 5.6., |
18.30 |
Peter Brugger, head of neuropsychological department of University Hospital Zurich |
| Tues., 12.6., |
18.30 |
Mario Pellin, art historian/interior designer
|
| Tues., 19.6., |
18.30 |
Gabriela Dietrich, scientific assistant Design Collection, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich |
| Tues., 26.6., |
18.30 |
Verena Formanek, head of Collections, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich |
|
July 2007
|
| Sun., 1.7., |
15.00 |
Timm Delfs, specialised journalist |
| Tues., 3.7., |
18.30 |
Timm Delfs |
| Tues., 10.7., |
18.30 |
Norbert Wild |
| Tues., 17.7., |
18.30 |
Mario Pellin |
| Tues., 24.7., |
18.30 |
Gabriela Dietrich |
| Tues., 31.7., |
18.30 |
Verena Formanek |
| August 2007 |
| Sun., 5.8., |
15.00 |
Gabriela Dietrich |
| Tues., 7.8., |
18.30 |
Verena Formanek
|
| Tues., 14.8., |
18.30 |
Verena Formanek |
| Tues., 21.8., |
18.30 |
Gabriela Dietrich |
| Tues., 28.8., |
18.30 |
Mario Pellin |
| September 2007 |
| Sun., 2.9., |
15.00 |
Gabriela Dietrich |
Special guided tours (also in English) as well as workshops for secondary and vocational school classes on request: Tel +41 (0)43 446 67 12 or christine.kessler@hgkz.ch
Publication: «Design Collection» 2, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (ed.), On Time, Verlag avedition, D/E, ISBN 978-3-89986-082-5, CHF 39.80
|
|
