UPCOMING
BELONGINGS: AFFECTION AS A DESIGN STRATEGY
The exhibition 'Belongings: Affection as a Design Strategy' explores how our emotional relationships with objects can be key to more sustainable consumption. Based on the idea that we take better care of what we are emotionally attached to, the exhibition presents design as more than form and function – as relationships that can extend an object’s lifespan and create meaning in everyday life.
The exhibition is a sensory, immersive installation in which visitors are invited to bring a personal object and enter into a dialogue with it. Through the use of AI technology, the object is given a voice and a character, and the encounter between human and object unfolds as a form of therapy or conversation. Together with talks, workshops, and a digital archive, the exhibition creates an open space for reflection on our relationship with things – and on how care and attachment can shape the future culture of design.
The exhibition is created in collaboration with the Danish Design Center (DDC) and artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm.