chmara.rosinke (Maciej Chmara & Ania Rosinke)Mobile Hospitality (Black Edition)Flamed spruce, kitchen implements, 2012With their mobile kitchen, the designing duo chmara.rosinke has already traveled through Europe and cooked for passersby in public squares. Mobile Hospitality provokes spontaneous encounters in an otherwise distanced setting and plays with new forms of appropriation in the urban sphere. Their public “guerilla cooking” is a consistent melding of the booming culture of “foodie-ism” and of urban gardening as a social practice. The present object, quite deliberately realized in a do-it-yourself aesthetic that invites emulation, embodies the intensifying search for an alternative consumer culture in which social satisfaction trumps the purely material. Design, for its part, takes on a new role here in the development of processes, propagating liberation from the product fetish.This MAK DESIGN SPACE intervention by chmara.rosinke, the MAK’s Designers-in-Residence for 2013, is a prelude to the exhibition NOMADIC FURNITURE 3.0. New Liberated Living (MAK Exhibition Hall, 12 June–6 October 2013). This presentation will take the rising demand for DIY instructions for furniture and furnishing items as a case study through which to explore this movement’s origins and trace its development up to the present day. In doing so, the publications Nomadic Furniture 1 and 2 by James Hennessey and Victor Papanek (1973 and 1974) will serve as valuable references. This collective creative approach, situated at the interface of design, production and usage, is to be examined as an alternative strategy of design and production that brings with it a new style of home living.The project mobile hospitality (Mobile Gastfreundschaft) pays attention to an important aspect of chmara.rosinkes’s design work – the responsibility and the self-initiative in public space. “The city plays as a space a difficult role. On the one hand it does not belong to anyone, on the other hand it belongs to all, but it is merely used by us actively, as it was in former times. It has decreased to the background of our everyday activities. Responsibility for the outdoor space, for most of the residents stops at their garden fence. The project mobile hospitality starts just here” state Ania Rosinke and Maciej Chmara, who are MAK-Designers-in-Residence 2013Mobile hospitality/chmara.rosinke
chmara.rosinke (Maciej Chmara & Ania Rosinke)
Mobile Hospitality (Black Edition)
Flamed spruce, kitchen implements, 2012
With their mobile kitchen, the designing duo chmara.rosinke has already traveled through Europe and cooked for passersby in public squares. Mobile Hospitality provokes spontaneous encounters in an otherwise distanced setting and plays with new forms of appropriation in the urban sphere. Their public “guerilla cooking” is a consistent melding of the booming culture of “foodie-ism” and of urban gardening as a social practice. The present object, quite deliberately realized in a do-it-yourself aesthetic that invites emulation, embodies the intensifying search for an alternative consumer culture in which social satisfaction trumps the purely material. Design, for its part, takes on a new role here in the development of processes, propagating liberation from the product fetish.
This MAK DESIGN SPACE intervention by chmara.rosinke, the MAK’s Designers-in-Residence for 2013, is a prelude to the exhibition NOMADIC FURNITURE 3.0. New Liberated Living (MAK Exhibition Hall, 12 June–6 October 2013). This presentation will take the rising demand for DIY instructions for furniture and furnishing items as a case study through which to explore this movement’s origins and trace its development up to the present day. In doing so, the publications Nomadic Furniture 1 and 2 by James Hennessey and Victor Papanek (1973 and 1974) will serve as valuable references. This collective creative approach, situated at the interface of design, production and usage, is to be examined as an alternative strategy of design and production that brings with it a new style of home living.
The project mobile hospitality (Mobile Gastfreundschaft) pays attention to an important aspect of chmara.rosinkes’s design work – the responsibility and the self-initiative in public space. “The city plays as a space a difficult role. On the one hand it does not belong to anyone, on the other hand it belongs to all, but it is merely used by us actively, as it was in former times. It has decreased to the background of our everyday activities. Responsibility for the outdoor space, for most of the residents stops at their garden fence. The project mobile hospitality starts just here” state Ania Rosinke and Maciej Chmara, who are MAK-Designers-in-Residence 2013
Mobile hospitality/chmara.rosinke
Mobile Hospitality (Black Edition)
Flamed spruce, kitchen implements, 2012
With their mobile kitchen, the designing duo chmara.rosinke has already traveled through Europe and cooked for passersby in public squares. Mobile Hospitality provokes spontaneous encounters in an otherwise distanced setting and plays with new forms of appropriation in the urban sphere. Their public “guerilla cooking” is a consistent melding of the booming culture of “foodie-ism” and of urban gardening as a social practice. The present object, quite deliberately realized in a do-it-yourself aesthetic that invites emulation, embodies the intensifying search for an alternative consumer culture in which social satisfaction trumps the purely material. Design, for its part, takes on a new role here in the development of processes, propagating liberation from the product fetish.
This MAK DESIGN SPACE intervention by chmara.rosinke, the MAK’s Designers-in-Residence for 2013, is a prelude to the exhibition NOMADIC FURNITURE 3.0. New Liberated Living (MAK Exhibition Hall, 12 June–6 October 2013). This presentation will take the rising demand for DIY instructions for furniture and furnishing items as a case study through which to explore this movement’s origins and trace its development up to the present day. In doing so, the publications Nomadic Furniture 1 and 2 by James Hennessey and Victor Papanek (1973 and 1974) will serve as valuable references. This collective creative approach, situated at the interface of design, production and usage, is to be examined as an alternative strategy of design and production that brings with it a new style of home living.
The project mobile hospitality (Mobile Gastfreundschaft) pays attention to an important aspect of chmara.rosinkes’s design work – the responsibility and the self-initiative in public space. “The city plays as a space a difficult role. On the one hand it does not belong to anyone, on the other hand it belongs to all, but it is merely used by us actively, as it was in former times. It has decreased to the background of our everyday activities. Responsibility for the outdoor space, for most of the residents stops at their garden fence. The project mobile hospitality starts just here” state Ania Rosinke and Maciej Chmara, who are MAK-Designers-in-Residence 2013
Mobile hospitality/chmara.rosinke