10.02.2026
Description - EN
Our idea of what constitutes a “normal”, “natural” or “right” domestic life has been in a constant state of re-invention and re-definition since its first inception. Especially since the end of World War II, our ideas of man- and womanhood, good taste and good food, of proper entertainment and visual culture have been defined and redefined, bought and sold, attacked and defended with a new–and highly technologized–vigor and fortitude.
Technical progress and innovation in military technology, fueled by two world wars and an ongoing cold war, was repackaged, redesigned and then sold to a civilian public, promising to aid and empower humanity in its technologically entwined future. Oftentimes these genuine dreams were quickly caught up in a vortex of hyper-mediality, capitalism, politics and propaganda. Architects, advertisers, venture capitalists, industrialists, businessmen, engineers, software-developers, scientists and of course designers have since been in a perpetual business of redesigning what constitutes a good home, a proper meal, the role of man and woman, freedom, and what you need to buy to be truly happy. From Wall-Street and Madison Avenue to Hollywood and Silicon Valley, this seminar will explore the ways design, the patriarchy, capitalism, geopolitics and warfare have intermingled and shaped the way we imagine our domestic life. Together we will attempt to understand and deconstruct how media and technology–from TV-dinners to the washing machine and the iPhone–have aided in the construction and re-negotiation of fundamental concepts of our everyday life.
Beschreibung - DE
The seminar will be held in English–please see English description.
10.02.2026