Follow The Object
Łódź Design Festival 2021
Design Faculty of the Academy of Art in Stettin exhibition

How arrange the world anew? Where did we make mistakes? Is it possible to design better what already exists? "Follow The Object" is an ethnographic research method that allows to look at human behavior resulting form the usage of various objects. We decided to "follow" selected phenomena and objects and, by analyzing them, take a closer look at the contemporary world. Asking questions, looking for answers, creating dialogue, a lively, active process. The aim of our activity is to redesign selected objects, but above all, the thought and design process, a debate on consumption, production and design. The selected object becomes a symbol of material culture and, at the same time, discussion about the future. 

We worked on the exhibition in the "summer school" mode, in eight teams consisting of lecturers and students of the Faculty of Design of the Academy of Art in Stettin. We worked on eight intriguing issues which, although close in meaning, have become an autonomous space for reflection: rituals of passage associated with saying goodbye to the ones that have passed away and social rituals establishing maturity, a speculum and photography as symbols of visual culture, ambiguous, rich in meaning matters - milk and coal, a mask symbolizing the changeability of identity and rebellion, and a chair - a prestigious and democratic facility at the same time.

We structured the process and together we watched how it helps, disturbs us, irritates us, facilitates our work and piles up questions. In our action, is the questions, not the answers, that are the essence. The research process, the flow of thoughts and the dialogue that we open with this exhibition and the accompanying publication.

Come and sit with us. We will be happy share our research.

Curators:
Agata Kiedrowicz & Agnieszka Polkowska
Exhibition was a part of Łódź Design Festival 2021.

Participants:
Aleksandra Brejwo, Alicja Fijał, Dawid Fik,Sara Gackowska, Patrycja Janiak, Olga Kiedrowicz-Świtalska, Małgorzata Kopczyńska, Kosmos Project (Ewa Bochen, Maciej Jelski), Marianna Krajewska, Emilia Łapko, Julia Łyżwińska, Patrycja Makarewicz-Leszczyńska,Magda Małachowska, Marta Murawska, Daria Opasiak, Natalia Rybak, Kamil Sadłocha, Anna Sienkiewicz, Milena Smyl, Olaf Stachurski, Patrycja Żyżniewska

Set design:
Olga Kiedrowicz-Świtalska
Teresa Otulak

Graphic Design:
Pełnia Studio

photos: Piotr Lewandowski

Follow The Object
Łódź Design Festival 2021
Design Faculty of the Academy of Art in Stettin exhibition

How arrange the world anew? Where did we make mistakes? Is it possible to design better what already exists? "Follow The Object" is an ethnographic research method that allows to look at human behavior resulting form the usage of various objects. We decided to "follow" selected phenomena and objects and, by analyzing them, take a closer look at the contemporary world. Asking questions, looking for answers, creating dialogue, a lively, active process. The aim of our activity is to redesign selected objects, but above all, the thought and design process, a debate on consumption, production and design. The selected object becomes a symbol of material culture and, at the same time, discussion about the future. 

We worked on the exhibition in the "summer school" mode, in eight teams consisting of lecturers and students of the Faculty of Design of the Academy of Art in Stettin. We worked on eight intriguing issues which, although close in meaning, have become an autonomous space for reflection: rituals of passage associated with saying goodbye to the ones that have passed away and social rituals establishing maturity, a speculum and photography as symbols of visual culture, ambiguous, rich in meaning matters - milk and coal, a mask symbolizing the changeability of identity and rebellion, and a chair - a prestigious and democratic facility at the same time.

We structured the process and together we watched how it helps, disturbs us, irritates us, facilitates our work and piles up questions. In our action, is the questions, not the answers, that are the essence. The research process, the flow of thoughts and the dialogue that we open with this exhibition and the accompanying publication.

Come and sit with us. We will be happy share our research.

Curators:
Agata Kiedrowicz & Agnieszka Polkowska
Exhibition was a part of Łódź Design Festival 2021.

Participants:
Aleksandra Brejwo, Alicja Fijał, Dawid Fik,Sara Gackowska, Patrycja Janiak, Olga Kiedrowicz-Świtalska, Małgorzata Kopczyńska, Kosmos Project (Ewa Bochen, Maciej Jelski), Marianna Krajewska, Emilia Łapko, Julia Łyżwińska, Patrycja Makarewicz-Leszczyńska,Magda Małachowska, Marta Murawska, Daria Opasiak, Natalia Rybak, Kamil Sadłocha, Anna Sienkiewicz, Milena Smyl, Olaf Stachurski, Patrycja Żyżniewska

Set design:
Olga Kiedrowicz-Świtalska
Teresa Otulak

Graphic Design:
Pełnia Studio

photos: Piotr Lewandowski