Design matters

Vitra Summit - Day 1, Thursday, 22 October PM CEST

Is there such a thing as a good or bad material? Or only correct and incorrect use? What impact have past crises had on interiors throughout history? This session features a conversation with Christian Grosen Rasmussen, Chief Design Officer at Vitra, moderated by Jan Boelen, the Creative Director of Atelier Luma. Other participants will include industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, Faber Futures Founder Natsai Audrey Chieza, Princeton Professor Beatriz Colomina and freelance writer Kyle Chayka.

Vitra Summit 2020

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Participants

Beatriz Colomina, Architecture Historian, Theorist and Curator
Christian Grosen Rasmussen, Chief Design Officer, Vitra
Francis Kéré, Architect
Götz Rehn, CEO, Alnatura
Hella Jongerius, Designer
Jan Boelen, Artistic Director, Atelier Luma
Konstantin Grcic, Designer
Kyle Chayka, Writer
Natsai Audrey Chieza, Founder and CEO, Faber Futures
Mateo Kries, Director, Vitra Design Museum
Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman Emeritus, Vitra
Virgil Abloh, Artist, Architect, Engineer, Creative Director and Fashion Designer

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Design matters programme

Day 1, Thursday, 22 October, PM CEST

Materials are the core of design. As our environmental awareness evolves, so does our choice of materials when designing objects and interiors. Can design contribute to a responsible use of materials? Is it possible to make design more sustainable? Can we create, develop, produce and consume in alternative ways and protect the interests of the next generations? This panel looks at contemporary examples that are shaping an ecofriendly future.

Participants: Christian Grosen Rasmussen, Jan Boelen, Konstantin Grcic, Natsai Audrey Chieza

In this session we question the impact of crises on interiors. Two leading figures give us an historic retrospective on how life-changing events influenced our way of designing interiors. Historian Beatriz Colomina presents her research on how tuberculosis had an impact on architecture and spaces and was at the source of the modern movement. Art and design critic Kyle Chayka, who specialises in minimalism, looks into further details at how the Coronavirus crisis has had an impact on architecture and speaks with a number of leading voices in the field.

Participants: Beatriz Colomina, Götz Rehn, Kyle Chayka, Mateo Kries

Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman Emeritus of Vitra, and Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum, will offer historical insights into this chair typology and also discuss the innovation potential of cantilever seating.

Participants: Mateo Kries, Rolf Fehlbaum

How will aesthetics be impacted by the social and environmental developments of 2020? The speakers of the Vitra Summit, respond to one question.

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