Inside the designer’s workshop
Once again, the Museum Koldinghus will frame Design School Kolding’s Graduation Exhibition. However this year, there will be a twist. Not only will you able to see the designer’s graduation projects, you will also be able to experience the work process that has brought the designers from their original ideas to their final products.
Designers often work in cross-disciplinary teams and sometimes they solve specific practical problems. Other times they challenge conventional thinking or experiment with materials or even the way we behave around each other.
- A large part of the value of design lies in the initial process where you test methods and acquire new knowledge. We want to demonstrate this by showing people the designer’s work process – from idea to product, says Anni Nørskov Mørch who curates the exhibition.
Anni Nørskov Mørch works for the Museum Koldinghus as well as Design School Kolding, and over the past few months, she has worked closely with the students.
- Meeting the students in the middle of their work and seeing their small workstations with inspiration collages, mood boards, material experiments and sketches has been very inspirational. They are incredibly good at visualising their process; in fact each workstation is an exhibition in itself and this is what we want to bring to this year’s graduation exhibition at the castle, says Anni Nørskov Mørch.
All exhibitors will have a station that enables them to show two sides of their project: they will present their finished product on a rug, whereas their process, along with tools and materials, will unfold on a rough work bench to visualise their thoughts.
For the first time, building the exhibition itself is part of the final exam. The new six-week course, which bridges student and work life, includes four days at the museum where the new designers will focus on communicating their skills to non-professionals by transforming their graduation projects into exhibition pieces.
@Nanna Ebert, Head of Communications, Museum Koldinghus
Guided tours
Sunday tours: Every Sunday at 2 p.m. the Museum Koldinghus will offer guided tours of the Graduation Exhibition 2015. Your guide will be one of the new designers. The tours are free once you have paid the entrance fee to the museum.
Book a guided tour: The museum offers guided tours throughout the exhibition period. Your guide will be one of the new designers. The tour price is DKK 775 plus entrance fee.
