Design for Democracy: Atmospheres for a better life, Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3899864158 ISBN 13: 9783899864151

Publisher: AVEdition, 2025

Synopsis

• Reader for World Design Capital 2026
• With 10 entries on the most important spheres of activity
• Text in English and German

With the theme Design for Democracy. Atmospheres for a better life, Frankfurt RheinMain holds the title of World Design Capital® 2026. Our motto "Let us design how we want to live" is an invitation to actively participate in shaping our living spaces and our democracy. Design has the power to shape collective processes, develop inclusive solutions and bring about social change. Ten guest authors address the ten fields of action of "Design for Democracy": Construction & Housing, Consumption, Culture & Media, Education, Health, Industry, Mobility, Public Space, Sport, Work.

Text in English and German.

About this title

About the Author

Matthias Wagner K is one of the outstanding German-speaking representatives in the fields of design mediation and design curating. After many years of successful freelance work as an exhibition organiser, biennial director, art and design curator, editor and author, he has been director of Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst since 2012. Wagner K has been teaching design curating at the HfG Offenbach since 2015/16 as part of a teaching assignment, and since June 2018 he has been an honorary professor in the Design Curating and Criticism theory programme.
Anna Scheuermann is Chief Programme Officer of the World Design Capital 2026.

Edition details

• Publisher: AVEdition
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3899864158
• ISBN 13: 9783899864151
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Wagner K Matthias, Scheuermann Anna