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Wonder Festival – van 16 oktober tot 2 november 2025
Entangled Practices - Unlearning separation through design
Location
Groeningestraat 1
Groeningestraat 1a
Kortrijk
Groeningestraat 1a
Kortrijk
Organised by
Designpunt – Design Museum Gent
What if design has never been separate from the earth, the other or decay? What if the object is not the end point, but just a moment in a larger process?
Entangled Practices explores how design today takes a radically different view of the world, and its place in it. Inspired by thinkers such as Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway, this exhibition questions classic contradictions: nature versus culture, man versus environment, object versus process. In a time of climate crisis, system exhaustion and social fragmentation, it is clear: the old narrative in which man alone was central no longer works.
Today's designers increasingly transcend the boundaries between disciplines, materials and scales. We see anno 2025 that much design looks holistically, transcending the partitions between old opposites. That the individual is captured in a larger whole, the local in the global, that context is genuinely taken into account. Designers don't just design “things”, they design relationships. They make space for what moves, grows, decays, or does not allow itself to be pinned down. Instead of control, collaboration is central. Instead of completion, the process.
How can we develop entangled practices that are detached from fixed values, that embrace the in-between and allow the temporary? Practices that allow themselves to be infused with context. In short, how do we design not just for, but with and through a larger narrative?
Organisator: Designpunt – Design Museum Gent
Curator: Annelies Thoelen
Participating designers: Antoine Guitou & Veerle Verschooren, Axelle Vertommen & Leda Devoldere & Emma Terweduwe, Bérénice de Salvatore (Studio Minimetre) & Pauline Dornat (Blackwool) , Cas Reynders & Yanni Timmerman & Jules Vrijsen & Onas Uytdewilligen, Frederik Delbart, Giel Dedeurwaerder & Brent Neve, Jana Van Ongevalle, Leila Zahedi & Tilde De Vylder, Tom De Koninck
Courtesy of: Designregio Kortrijk, Stad Gent, Vlaanderen
Entangled Practices explores how design today takes a radically different view of the world, and its place in it. Inspired by thinkers such as Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway, this exhibition questions classic contradictions: nature versus culture, man versus environment, object versus process. In a time of climate crisis, system exhaustion and social fragmentation, it is clear: the old narrative in which man alone was central no longer works.
Today's designers increasingly transcend the boundaries between disciplines, materials and scales. We see anno 2025 that much design looks holistically, transcending the partitions between old opposites. That the individual is captured in a larger whole, the local in the global, that context is genuinely taken into account. Designers don't just design “things”, they design relationships. They make space for what moves, grows, decays, or does not allow itself to be pinned down. Instead of control, collaboration is central. Instead of completion, the process.
How can we develop entangled practices that are detached from fixed values, that embrace the in-between and allow the temporary? Practices that allow themselves to be infused with context. In short, how do we design not just for, but with and through a larger narrative?
Organisator: Designpunt – Design Museum Gent
Curator: Annelies Thoelen
Participating designers: Antoine Guitou & Veerle Verschooren, Axelle Vertommen & Leda Devoldere & Emma Terweduwe, Bérénice de Salvatore (Studio Minimetre) & Pauline Dornat (Blackwool) , Cas Reynders & Yanni Timmerman & Jules Vrijsen & Onas Uytdewilligen, Frederik Delbart, Giel Dedeurwaerder & Brent Neve, Jana Van Ongevalle, Leila Zahedi & Tilde De Vylder, Tom De Koninck
Courtesy of: Designregio Kortrijk, Stad Gent, Vlaanderen