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The Unresolved Matters exhibitionThe Unforseen Magic exhibitionThe User Manual exhibitionThe Urgent Methods exhibitionThe United Minds exhibition

Unforeseen Magic

Series of activities

Central location of UM 2009 with activities centred on the question: What is social design? Open channel platform which for two weeks is in a process of ongoing change and unites all kinds of networks and disciplines. Programme with films, videos, presentations, meetings, lectures and debates.


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Exhibition Space

4 October, 2009 - 11:00 - 18 October, 2009 - 17:00
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Curators: 
Bas van Tol
Curators: 
Guus Beumer
Curators: 
Debra Solomon
Contributors: 
Anneke Moors

Facing the Centraal Museum is CM Studio, which will function for two weeks as the central location, including an information desk, for all visitors to Utrecht Manifest. Bas van Tol has reproduced here the physical conditions of the exhibition Koer Locale, held in W139 in Amsterdam in 1992.... more

Workshop Geluksbrengers

1 January, 2010 - 14:00 - 16:30

Heb je altijd al een geluksbrenger willen maken?
Dat kan bij kinderatelier XieXie!
De kleine kistjes die wij klaar hebben liggen zijn er om gevuld te worden met een beetje geluk.
Elk land en elke cultuur hebben wel een eigen manier om iemand een beetje geluk mee te geven, talismannen, amuletten, gelukspoppetjes, geluksmuntjes, weet jij er nog meer te noemen?
Jullie gaan zelf een geluksbrenger maken. Een geluksbrenger kan van alles zijn, een poppetje, een dier, een ding of een symbool.
Verzin zelf maar wat het beste bij je past: hoe mooier, hoe meer geluk hij zal brengen!

Gratis toegang

From Babylon to the Amazon

18 October, 2009 - 14:00 - 15:30

Een psychogeografische wandeling in de verwilderde wildheid van beschaafd Westraven
Verzamel om 14.00 uur op Transferium Westraven
Griffioenlaan 1 bis, 3526 LA Utrecht
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BARCO

17 October, 2009 - 10:00 - 18 October, 2009 - 17:00
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Curators: 
Guus Beumer

BARCO is a small group of approximately eight women that has recently emerged as an association of women artisans in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala. BARCO distinguishes itself because all their products are made with naturally dyed yarns. They take pride in their process of natural dyeing that they developed themselves over the past years. They have a color range of approximately 12 distinct colors in many shades that they make using only three different plants that grow in the proximity of the village.... more

Alexander van Slobbe

4 October, 2009 - 11:00 - 18 October, 2009 - 17:00
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Curators: 
Guus Beumer

The exhibition Unresolved Matters refers among other things to the longing for nature and the designers’ task to design from the view of a new ‘natural’ relation to the body. In the Netherlands, Alexander van Slobbe’s designs are known to have a distinct connection with views of Henri van der Velde and the ‘freie korper’ culture of the first half of the twentieth century; a tradition that Mr. Van Slobbe mingled with the abstractions of designer Balenciaga and modernism. Recently he said in an interview: “I do not make statues with legs.... more

Perfect Day (Neeltje Ten Westenend icw Henriette Waal)

4 October, 2009 - 11:00 - 18 October, 2009 - 17:00
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Curators: 
Guus Beumer

The ‘Hoograven Invites You’ is part of Utrecht Manifest in which the Hoograven district in Utrecht plays a central role. With the exhibition United Minds in the Pastoe Factory, Urban Think Tank, headed by architects A.Brillembourg and H.Klumpner, shows various proposals for the future of this district which is the outcome of an intensive dialogue with a variety of persons involved and not in the least the residents themselves. The issues about Hoograven are not unique, and can be recognized at other places in and outside Utrecht, like in the Overvecht district.... more

Grid - The Freedom Festival

4 October, 2009 - 11:00 - 18 October, 2009 - 17:00
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Curators: 
Guus Beumer

Tomorrow

During April 1939, the New York World's Fair 'Building The World of Tomorrow' opened on what was once a wasteland, just east of the great metropolis. Wedged between the greatest economic disaster in America and the growing international tension that would result in World War II, the Fair promoted the unqualified belief in science and technology as a meaning of economic and personal freedom. Under the title of 'tomorrow' were thus placed the terms of a market-oriented future in which happiness is reached through economic prosperity and endless exchange of products.... more

Buckminster Fuller

4 October, 2009 - 10:00 - 18 October, 2009 - 17:00
Tuesday-Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Curators: 
Guus Beumer

Buckminster Fuller had one of the most fascinating and original minds of his century. Born in 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts, he was the latest--if not the last--of the New England Transcendentalists. Like the transcendentalists, Fuller rejected the established religious and political notions of the past and adhered to an idealistic system of thought based on the essential unity of the natural world and the use of experiment and intuition as a means of understanding it.... more