After Neurath Symposium: Day 2

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Date: November 1, 2006

Stroom has invited designers from three Dutch academies to explore the influence of Neurath’s work and to produce original work, which will be publicly exhibited throughout the entire ‘After Neurath’ programme (October 2006 – April 2007).

The second day of the ‘After Neurath’ symposium consists of workshops in which these young designers present and discuss their work. The various participants will also have the opportunity to meet and engage with one another.

The invited academies are: Type & Media (postgraduate programme) of the Royal Academy of Art (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten), The Hague, The Design Department of the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem.

10:45 hrs: Screening of 'Designing Truth', a film by Hinrich Sachs.

"In the film 'Designing Truth' – a colourful and surprising portrait of Swiss structural biologist and software designer Ansgar Philippsen – Hinrich Sachs explores the creation and interpretation of scientific imagery in the field of structural biology, and the impact such imagery has on our understanding of the body and nature. Ansgar Philippsen demonstrates and explains how images are derived from biological material so infinitesimally small that it raises the question of how it can be visualized. He shows how these scientific digital images relate to reality, especially now that they increasingly claim to represent ‘truth’. 'Designing Truth' weaves together these large questions with a personal focus on Ansgar Philippsen, introducing the individual behind the scientist by portraying him as a contemporary personality, not without humor.
[...] Hinrich Sachs (b. 1962) is an artist with an international scope, based in Basel (Switzerland). He is currently affiliated as an advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht."
[Text courtesy of Casco Projects, Utrecht]

Between 11:15 hrs and 17:30 hrs, the following designers from the Jan van Eyck Academy and Werkplaats Typografie will give short presentations:
Katja Gretzinger, Salome Schmuki, Karl Nawrot, Velina Stoykova, David Bennewith, Na Kim, Enrico Bravi, Sott Ponik, and Boy Vereecken.

This will be followed by a short presentation from the Type & Media postgraduate programme of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.