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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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