 ICDAD

Thursday September 25, 2025, 16:00 Paris, 10:00 New York, 23:00 Tokyo
Online Zoom Meeting (approx. 1 hour program)

This talk will explore the exhibition The Shakers: A World in the Making. Co-organized by Vitra Design Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, with significant support from the Shaker Museum, the exhibition explores the architecture, design, and material culture of the Shakers, a religious community founded in the late 18th century in the United States.
 
Organized around principles of communitarianism, pacifism, and celibacy, the Shakers made much of what they needed to build and maintain their communities, largely separated from the rest of the US. A World in the Making also features seven contemporary artists and designers, whose newly-commissioned works sit in dialogue with Shaker objects and invites visitors to consider how the Shakers might provide insight into the challenges and questions of contemporary life. 

Join co-curators Mea Hoffmann (VDM), Hallie Ringle (ICA Philadelphia), and Shoshana Resnikoff (MAM) as they detail the development of the exhibition, its themes, and the many challenges and opportunities presented by the rich and complex history of the Shakers.

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This ICOM DESIGN organised talk is the ninth in a series of online conversations with decorative arts and design professionals. 

Andreas Hug's ICOM DESIGN Talk "Archiving Moholy-Nagy: A Bauhaus Legacy in America", held on October 17, 2024, is now available online through this link.

In this presentation, Moholy-Nagy Foundation archivist Andreas Hug, grandson of the artist, discussed the digitalization of the extensive archives of the Hungarian artist and Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946). After working in Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, and England in the early twentieth century, Moholy-Nagy moved with his wife Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (1903–1971) and young daughters Hattula (b. 1933), and Claudia (1936–1971) to the United States in 1937, where he founded the School of Design in Chicago, known as the New Bauhaus.

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Thanks to the hard work of our former board member Maria José Gaivão Tavares and her team, we are proud to announce the publication of an online book Ornament containing 13 papers by colleagues from the 2023 ICDAD (now ICOM DESIGN) Annual Conference at the Palácio Nacional da Ajuda in Lisbon. It is available at this link.

ICDAD elections for the next 2023-2025 triannium took place on the xoyondo.com platform this year, immediately following the GEneral Meeting on 16 November 2022. THe voting poll closed on 23 November 2022 at 9 PM Paris time. Annamarie Sendecki and Rosita Nenno (both former board members) supervised the election. 

The results are: 

Melissa Rinne has been elected board chair. We received 61 valid votes, 56 yes and 5 abstentions. Melissa has accepted the vote and will be installeda s the new Chair for ICDAD. NOTE: From the 88 entries, not all were valid or eligible (e.g. double entry not an ICDAD voting member). 

9 candidates ran for 7 general board member posts. We received 68 valid votes, with no abstentions. The newly elected board members for the triannium 2023-2025 in alphabetical order are: 

• Sarah Chasse
• Mariàngels Fondevila
• Denise Hagströmer
• Kaja Muszyńska
• Eva van Regenmortel 
• Anika Reineke
• Shoshana Resnikoff

All board members have accepted their roles, and ICDAD thanks all candidates for their time and interest in serving. 

Note: there have been 110 entries from 83 people, with some double/triple entries due to the new online voting process. Not all were members or voting members of ICDAD .The supervisors checked the eligibility of all voters with the help of the ICOM Secretariat. 

The work of the board will begin in January 2023. 

The Latvian National Museum of Art and Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga invite entries from artists for the 7th Riga International Textile and Fiber Art Triennial. 

The theme is "Quo Vadis?" ("Where are you going?") and the deadline for artist submissions is October 1, 2022. The Triennial will be held concurrently at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design and the Art Museum Riga Bourse concurrently from June through September 2023. Click below for more information and for the entry form.