Design thinks about you... Did you thought about Design? At the "Cité des sciences" Until Sunday January 27th,

The 2008 Design observer
Until Sunday January 27th, 2008

Design thinks about you... Did you ever thought about Design? For the eighth year in a row, the "Cité des sciences" is welcoming the Design observer, a priviledge rendez-vous with design organised by the Agency for the promotion of industrial creation (APCI).
New shapes, new materials, new objects, the most innovatives realisation of the year will be on display at this annual window display of contemporary design.

The 2008 Design observer, to think Design differently
Thinking Design differently is descovering its true identity. It needs a shift, another perspective in your point of vue.
That's exactly what this exhibition is about through its scenography both educational and surprising. It gives you the keys to discover the variety of steps a designers goes through, and it allow the audience to better "read" spaces, objects and picture in our day-to-day life... thus to better choose those. All sectors will be presented from medical appliances to white goods to sport.

Design thinks about you... everyday! Our paths crossed daily: at home, in public transports, at the office... it's an inner part of our life to an extend that sometimes we simply forget about it.
BEcause contrary to preconceived ideas, Design isn't only about aesthetical qualities. Design can and must raise the bar for life quality, materialise an innovation or more simply creates emotion.


Design is a global approach and its all point resumes into one word: YOU!
Today, design field of expertise are wider then ever and do not self-limit to product design. An example? Everyone has a cell phone, and you can bet it has been designed by a designer, as well as its user graphic interface, its "Packaging", not to forget its brand identity, its website and your connectivity provider's Point of sale...
Whatever applications, they obey to one only ryle: Listen to the consumer.

Access : Claude Bernard, Explora, niveau 1
from 10:00am to 06:oopm (07:oopm on Sundays ). Closes on Mondays
Admission: access granted with the Explora ticket

Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
www.cite-sciences.fr
30 avenue Corentin Cariou
75930 Paris cedex 19

Paris VIA BERLIN GALERIE VIA PARIS - BERLIN 1987 - 2007

EXHIBITION @ VIA until December 16th, 2007.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the cultural co-operation agreement between Paris and Berlin, both capitals will be staging events this summer and autumn 2007. Among the wealth of projects, which include concerts and presentations of guest artists, the partner cities will be mounting in parallel two offbeat exhibitions. At the Murkisches Museum in Berlin, ‘Design Reference Paris' presents a panorama of Parisian design, from 20 September to 4 November 2007.
In Paris, « Le Berlin des Créateurs » gives a comprehensive overview of the design scene in Berlin and of the trends of the moment. The Paris show is at the VIA gallery (Valorisation de l'Innovation dans l'Ameublement) from 3 October to 16 December. Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë, with mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, open both shows: ‘Design Reference Paris' in Berlin on 19 September, and « Le Berlin des Créateurs » in Paris on 2 October.

The ‘Berlin creators' show was mounted by Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, working to a commission from the Lander of Berlin, and supported by the Deutsche Klassenlotterie foundation. Designers and their objects form the core of the show. According to design observers, the political and economic situation in Berlin has brought into being a climate that has stimulated young creators. Years of industrial regression (in West Berlin before the fall of the Wall, and both sides since then) have forced designers to look beyond the expectations and needs of industrial makers. This questioning of design focused on industrial imperatives has fostered new creation procedures that have a non-commercial bias.

The team behind Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH (Thomas Friedrich, Kathrin Kohle, Wolf Kuhnelt, Georg von Wilcken), backed by a group of experts (Atilano Gonzalez, Designmai / Professors Ralf Rautenberg and Helmut Staubach of the Kunsthochschule Wei§ensee / Professors Egon Chemaitis and Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen of the Universität der Künste, Berlin) selected 19 design agencies and fashion studios for « Le Berlin des créateurs » :
Object design:
Adam und Harborth / Studio Aisslinger / Julian Appelius / Delphin-Design / e27 / Fuchs und Funke / Hering Berlin / L.ufer und Keichel / Metrofarm / Osko und Deichmann / Barbara Schmidt (Kahla Porzellan)
Fashion:
Bless Office Berlin / c.neeon / Elena Kikina / Frank Leder / Pulver Studio / Karen Scholz und Joan Tarrag. Pampanola / Trippen GmbH

We are all berliners !

VIA - Valorisation de l'Innovation dans l'Ameublement
www.via.fr
Agora des créateurs
29, avenue Daumesnil - 75012 Paris
Tél : 01 46 28 11 11

exhibition open every day :
Monday to Friday 10 am – 1 pm / 2 pm – 6 pm
Saturday / Sunday 1 pm / 6 pm
Free admission