This workshop is now closed.
The HERA funded ‘Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800’ project held a designers’ workshop on 13 June – 14 June, Copenhagen. The workshop was organised by Maj Ringgaard (National Museum of Denmark) and Kirsten Toftegaard (Designmuseum Danmark).
A Partner’s Report by Peter McNeil can be accessed on the project blog:
http://fashioningtheearlymodern.wordpress.com/
The workshop programme can be downloaded here.
A selection of photos from the workshop can be viewed here.
The exhibition draws parallels between the eighteenth century and the present. The past is illustrated through selected objects from the museum’s 18. century collections, here among textiles and fashion. The present is represented by the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE and three Danish fashion artists, Nikoline Liv Andersen, Laura Baruël and Anne Damgaard.
The exhibition is on show until 23 September 2012.
For general info and interviews with three Danish contemporary designers see: http://designmuseum.dk/udstillinger/aktuelle-saerudstillinger/rokoko-mania
For Rococomania event programme see: http://designmuseum.dk/aktiviteter/foredrag-og-talks/rokoko-mania-eventprogram