![]() ![]() Just as the earliest forms of brushes and brooms are the predecessors of the elaborate vacuum cleaners of today, humanity has created and reimagined these types of utilitarian objects in order to provoke or adapt to changes in how we live, to technological advances, and to broader cultural shifts. Throughout human history, countless solutions have been proposed to relieve the pains associated with these tasks. ![]() It takes persistent, diligent effort to maintain the intended condition of the constructed world. Their aspiration to create heaven on earth rested on a foundation of clean floors, well tended gardens, and devotional work - each chore putting them closer to their God. It could be argued that the sect’s success was in part related to their pursuit of perfection connecting the spiritual with the practical. ![]() One of the most successful attempts to realize a utopian ideal was the Shakers. Many attempts have been made to realize this dream within distinct communities, gathering under a banner of government, religion, economics, and many other organizing belief structures. Utopian experiments speculate a holistic integration of society to create a perfect world. »Hands to work« offers a new view of this relationship between the man and the object. Officially, the colony was called the Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice. This way the exhibition involves designers and viewers in the dialogue about our daily life and the objects of our everyday use. John Calhoun crouching inside Universe 25, his famous mouse-behavior experiment, February 1970. ✿urnishing Utopia« is presenting the collection of more than fifty objects, that refer to the lifestyle of the Shakers, based of the virtuous handcraft. The results of this research, that bring the history of design and modern design-aesthetics together, will be presented in Berlin for the first time. Twenty six international design studios are invited to debate about the values and daily rituals of the ✻elievers«. ![]()
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