Exhibition

Climactic: Post Normal Design

Duration

November 4, 2016 - December 11, 2016

Artists

Sara Adhitya, Ahmed Ansari, Laurens Boer and Jared Donovan, Eva Brandt, Deepa Butoliya and works from the Speculative Critical Design class CMU, Tentative Collective, Beck Davis,Tricia Flanagan, Raune Frankjaer, Jennifer Gabrys, William Gaver, Joachim Halse, Thomas Binder, Eva Brandt, and Brendon Clark, Interplay, Terry Irwin, Tie Ji, Cyrus Kabiru, Tobie Kerridge, Onkar Kular, CMU HCI and robotics Create Lab, Golan Levin, Zoe Mahony, Mike Michael, Katherine Moline, Manar Moursi, NoamToran, Pedro Oliveira, Liliana Ovalle and Colectivo 1050º, Nestor Pestana, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Luiza Prado, Tristan Schultz, Srishti, Superflux, Laurene Vaughan, Alex Wilkie

Curatorial Team

Katherine Moline, Ahmed Ansari, Deepa Butoliya

Curatorium

Katherine Moline, Ahmed Ansari, Deepa Butoliya, Laurene Vaughan, Brad Haylock, Beck Davis, Peter Hall

Provocateur

Cameron Tonkinwise

Co-organizer

CMU School of Design

Climactic: Post Normal Design focuses on design and activism surrounding issues of coloniality, crises of culture and race climate change in both the Global South and North. The curatorial premise of the exhibition is to engage audiences in thinking about the ongoing moment of contingency and precarity that characterize contemporary life and challenge the design disciplines. Our exhibition, panel discussions, and workshops aim to present alternative models for design that broaden human capacity to understand and intervene in accelerated social and environmental crises. Climactic: Post Normal Design is the fourth iteration of a series of exhibitions and symposia led by Feral Experimental: New Design Thinking, shown at UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia, in 2014.

Additional support for Climactic: Post Normal Design comes in part from Carnegie Mellon School of Design.

Tristan Schultz, Drawing Together Indigenous Futures, 2016.

Superflux, Mangala for All, 2014.

Climactic: Post Normal Design. Installation view at Miller ICA.

Climactic: Post Normal Design. Installation view at Miller ICA.

Climactic: Post Normal Design. Installation view at Miller ICA.

Climactic: Post Normal Design. Installation view at Miller ICA.