Less than three weeks to go and What Design Can Do will set off again. For the fifth time! Amsterdam is turning yellow and red already. Ticket sales are going fast now, it’s going to be a big party.
Our friends at Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum, the newsstand with the biggest collection of rare and independently published magazines, turned their shop window yellow and red to inform the public about the conference, the film festival and the special anniversary public programme WDCD: Taste it! at Stedelijk Museum on Thursday.
This year, during the weekend after the conference, on 23 and 24 May, De Balie and What Design Can Do present a collection of documentaries focusing on design. The programme includes Print the Legend, on how 3D printing is changing the world, Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity, about the Japanese Architect Tadao Ando, and Sign Painters, celebrating the tradition of hand painted signs. See the full programme here and buy your tickets or passepartout here.
The Public Program entitled What Design Can Do: Taste It! will evolve around the question what design can do for our taste buds. In a (design) world dominated by visual impulses, little room is left for other sensory experiences. Underneath the canopy of the new building, the Stedelijk Museum will erect a temporary pavilion, bridging the gap between the exhibition inside the museum and the public space of the Museumplein.
In this pavilion, Brazilian master chef Alex Atala will prepare a selection of haute cuisine dishes and bites during his Sensory Dinner Installation. For his extraordinary culinary creations, Atala will be using authentic Brazilian ingredients. At the same time British food design duo Bompas & Parr will simultaneously present their latest creation in the museum’s Teijin Auditorium: Kepler’s Platonic Planetary Bar. Read more and reserve your tickets for the Bompas & Parr artist talk now at stedelijk.nl.
Oh yeah, don’t forget to visit the bookstand of Athenaeum bookshop at What Design Can Do with a big selection of design related books.