What are things for?
The exhibition “What are things for?” aims to re-read the history of design and present Portuguese design in context and as a design process. Rather than showing the design icons in MUDE’s collection, the aim is to question how and why products are designed, communicated, perceived, and consumed.
The chronological organisation allows us to go back to the dawn of the 20th century and establish open dialogues between the design pieces and the documentation, highlighting the issues that cut across the different eras and inviting debate on the practices of the past and their projection into the future of each era.
The exhibition design poses a new challenge to museography by prioritising the reuse of various materials from the MUDE construction site that would otherwise go to waste. This curatorial decision makes it possible to reduce waste and the amount of debris as much as possible, investing in the idea of promoting a circular economy, making the exhibition solution a real manifestation of the museological intention to debate the current consumer society and the need to implement the values of economic degrowth.
Tuesday to Thursday, and Sunday, 10 am - 7 pm; Friday and Saturday, 10 am - 9 pm
Location:
MUDE - Museu do Design
Email geral: mude@cm-lisboa.pt
Abril a setembro: Terça a quinta, das 10h às 19h | sexta e sábado, das 10h às 21h | domingos e feriados, das 10h às 19h
Outubro a março: Terça a quinta, das 10h às 18h | sexta e sábado, das 10h às 20h | domingos e feriados, das 10h às 18h
Encerra a 25 de dezembro e 1 de janeiro
