Risk Centre Lausanne
Summary
Developed from the existing body of knowledge and techniques that were incorporated in Risk Centre (2013), Risk Centre Lausanne further examined the premise that our relationship to risk-taking has become a powerful factor that influences decision-making on many levels through a site-specific installation.
Supported by
Including employer, customer and collaboration partners.
Commisioned by The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland for the exhibition:
Safe and Sound, Surveillance and Protection in the 21st Century
Description of project
As stated the project responded firstly to an existing body of knowledge and research first presented as the Risk Centre (2013), Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden. The commission from the MUDAC, framed within the exhibition Safe and Sound, Surveillance and Protection in the 21st Century allowed the opportunity to further develop, materializes and disseminate this body of research through responding to a the site of Lausanne.
As users of spaces and objects risk comes to us through different channels. Whether culturally endemic, institutionalized, casual or concealed, it begins not just to affect our physical space, but also our behaviors and interactions. We are instructed, encouraged, invited or nudged towards certain forms of behavior, either for our own protection or for the protection of others. But where is the authority behind these messages coming from?
The content and display of this version of the Risk Centre operated at the intersection of where cultural risk trends meet everyday users and explored how design decisions play out these relationships. As a cloud of material information, it investigated the language of design related to risk from the functional through to the more aestheticized and celebratory. Through creating a new spatial environment of heightened risk awareness it explored the notion of a scripted space that acts like a landscape of information, a lexicon of data and a library of risks to be used by Secondary school education and the wider public of Lausanne and Switzerland.
Type of work
Mixed Media Installation
Published in
From 23.03.2016 to 21.08.2016 Exhibition: The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Link to web site
http://mudac.ch/en/exhibitions/sains-et-saufs/
http://mudac.ch/src/uploads/2016/05/mudac_SainsEtSaufs_DP_EN_.pdf
http://www.onkarkular.com/index.php?/project/risk-centre-lausanne--/
http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/fr/agenda/agenda-principal/EventDetail.html?id=6420
http://www.loisirs.ch/agendas/22219/expositions-sains-et-saufs-et-qu-en-lira-t-on-au-mudac
http://www.24heures.ch/culture/arts-visuels/securite-donne-look/story/31421260
http://www.letemps.ch/culture/2016/04/01/objets-veulent-bien
http://www.rts.ch/info/culture/7618488-la-nouvelle-expo-du-mudac-fait-un-clin-d-oeil-a-notre-rapport-a-la-securite.html
http://espacescontemporains.ch/art/mudac-lactualite-sinvite-au-musee
http://www.bilan.ch/etienne-dumont/courants-dart/veveydavid-hominal-presente-multiples-musee-jenisch
http://www.bilan.ch/etienne-dumont/courants-dart/genevele-salon-livre-fera-cohabiter-coelho-tunisie-lenluminure
http://www.hebdo.ch/hebdo/passions/
http://www.flashleman.ch/page.php?titre=Accueil
http://www.bilan.ch/etienne-dumont/courants-dart/lausannele-mudac-montre-comment-rester-sains-saufs
http://www.24heures.ch/culture/deux-musees-nuit-hauts-risques/story/27129756
http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/fr/agenda/agenda-principal/EventDetail.html?id=7496
http://www.lausannecites.ch/sortir/agenda/enfants-4
http://www.lausannecites.ch/sortir/agenda/expos-7
http://form.de/de/agenda
Other description
The Risk Centre project has been used in as a case study in the following book chapter:
Gillian Russell: Curating Critical Design: An Embodied Criticality p105-111 (2016).
Liz Farrelly, Joanna Weddell: Design Objects and the Museum (London, Bloomsbury Academic 2016).
And in the Exhibition Catalogue/Book:
Sains et saufs.
Authors :
Claire Favre Maxwell – Claus Gunti – David Le Breton.
Publishers : mudac / Infolio
2016.
ISBN mudac : 978-2-88244-030-3
ISBN infolio : 978-2-88474-827-8
Date
2016Creator
Kular, Onkar
Keywords
Speculative & Critical Design
Pedagogic practices
Publication type
artistic work