TechnoCRAFT Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco July 10th – October 3rd
Jury member Design as reform competition, Traffic, Dubai June 1st Renny Ramakers participated as jury member of the Design as reform competition initiated by Traffic. The design competition aimed to foster a provincial sense of design through the re-application of existing Arab art forms on contemporary projects. Candidates explored ways in which Arab culture should preserve authenticity in light of mass production and exportation.
Lecture at Design, Architecture and Sustainability Conference Benaki Museum amphitheatre, Athens June 5th
In tandem with the retrospective Green green greet by Droog at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Renny Ramakers presented a lecture at the Design, Architecture and Sustainability Conference.
Greek green greet by Droog Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece June 4th – July 25th
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presented TechnoCRAFT, a major design exhibition charting current movements blurring the boundary between designer and consumer. Curated by acclaimed industrial designer Yves Béhar, TechnoCRAFT looked at the different ways that consumers are personalizing design in efforts to assert creativity and individuality in an age of mass-production. The presentation featured Do hit by Marijn van der Poll for Droog.
Lecture D-day, Zagreb June 12th Agata Jaworska, content and project manager of Droog Lab presented a lecture at D-Day, a 24-hour design event for students and young designers. D-Day was for the first time organized at the abandoned industrial complex of Zagrepčanka Old Slaughter– house in Zagreb
Workshop Dionisis Sotovikis and Mariolopoulos Kanaginis Foundation for the environmental sciences, in collaboration with the Benaki Museum presented the largest retrospective Droog exhibition in the world since 2007. The presentation explored the concepts of recycle, re–use, recreate, reinvent, clarity of concept, memory and nostalgia. 47