Look don’t touch!

With COVID-19 as the back cloth the Museum at Koldinghus presents LOOK DON’T TOUCH, an exhibition showing more than 100 projects by Design School Kolding graduates

Class of 2020 at Design School Kolding are graduating as designers – in the shadow of a pandemic. They have finished their degrees separated from the school, the workshops, their collaboration partners and each other and have primarily been connected to the outside world virtually. They have felt insecure, limited and challenged – and at the same time liberated, enriched and powerful. Because when it comes down to it, this is exactly where the designer’s methods work the best: when there are problems to solve and the need for a different mindset. When the future calls for scenarios we can barely imagine. When the road is paved with resistance and trip-ups.

This year just a little under 150 new BA and MA designers from Design School Kolding have wrestled the pandemic creatively and created the exhibition LOOK DON’T TOUCH. The exhibition opens on the 18th of September and will demonstrate how months of global lockdown has stimulated and inspired the students to activate their superpowers and bring their competences into play.

Reusable face masks and a guide for the skin hungry 
As the corona crisis became more critical, designer Sara Lee Spanggaard Krog wanted to create a face mask that was reusable and self-cleaning to address the current crisis situation in a sustainable way. 

COVID-19 has forced us to think about how we interact with one another. The physical and the emotional, the individual and the community is challenged in unfamiliar ways. Communications designer Eszter Marie Kristensen Szabo sketches and animates for the skin hungry on Instagram with for instance a fictitious dating app and a sensory guide for people with no pets.

And communication designer Johanne Ib is deeply committed to creating meaningful food experiences. In order to strengthen the social connection between people, she has used the pandemic as a starting point for designing new food communities in a time when we can only be together apart.

A creative turning point
Lene Tanggaard, rector at Design School Kolding and professor of psychology, is one of Denmark’s leading researchers of creativity. She has studied how trip-ups affect our ability to be creative. She says:

- During the corona epidemic students have had to reinvent themselves. Business owners have had to come up with new business methods, teaching has become online, and we now enjoy our traditional Friday drink with friends and colleagues on Zoom. In other words: We have experienced a major creative trip-up. It has been a radical breakdown, which we by no means wished for, but now that it is here, it also challenges us positively to do things differently. Crisis means turning point. And this is the starting point for designers. They look at what is and explore how to do it better.

About the exhibition
LOOK DON’T TOUCH will be shown 18 September – 22 November 2020 at the Museum at Koldinghus.

Almost 150 graduation projects will be on display along with an art installation interpreting the special conditions the students have had to work under during the pandemic and the mark they want to make on the world.

An exhibition website will communicate the projects along with talks, videos, performances and workshops both in the exhibition and online. The website is designed in collaboration with BA students Jasmin Kharamani Madsen and Louis Hørsted Kockmick, design agency b14 and the exhibition team at Design School Kolding and the Museum at Koldinghus.

We want to thank the graduates for their determination and commitment in setting up the graduation show. 
Thank you to Kolding Municipality, Den Faberske Fond, 15. Juni Fonden, Tage Vanggaard og Hustrus Fond and more.

Exhibition team
Curator: Anni Nørskov Mørch
Communications and PR: Marianne Baggesen Hilger, Katrine Worsøe, Nana Balle and Charlotte Melin.
Visual design: Communication design students Jasmin Kharamani Madsen and Louis Hørsted Kocmick.
Exhibition design: Allan Schmidt.

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