Conference on design and modern art materials

"Processes. The Making of Design and Modern Art Materials,
    Technologies and Conservation Strategies"
Future Talks 015
Pinakothek of Modern, Munich, Germany
October 28-30, 2015

After an overwhelming response to our last three Future Talks
conferences we are looking forward to another extensive
three-day-congress on international research projects and case
studies on active conservation treatments and technology of modern
materials in design and modern art.

Future Talks 015 is focussing on everything you'd always wanted to
learn about the making of design and modern art and the conservation
challenges related to this.  Recent advances in this field,
addressing technology, design and production processes of modern
materials, new and innovative treatment and analysis methods for
degraded plastics as well as current research and ongoing projects
will be presented.  During the three day conference experts from all
over the world (21 nations at the last FUTURE TALKS conference) will
share their experiences and knowledge in this field.  Knowing very
well that the conservation of modern materials is not only limited
to design objects, a part of the programme is dedicated to
conservation projects on modern/contemporary works of art.

In addition to lectures from the conservation section, we are very
delighted to announce a set of great designers who will talk about
the process in design. It is a honour to welcome:

    Nitzan Cohen
    Professor for industrial and system design HBK Stuttgart,
    industrial designer, Munich

    Karim Habib
    Chief designer, BMW

    Axel Thallemer
    Full professor with tenure at National University of Singapore
    and Deputy Head of Research for Industrial Design

The conference and associated publication will be in English.

There will also be social events and opportunities to visit local
conservation studios, research labs, plastic producers and design
studios on Saturday October 31, 2015.

The conference and the associated publication will be in English.

The eagerly awaited third publication FT 013 will be available at
the conference.

Online booking is available at:

    <URL:http://die-neue-sammlung.de/ft/future-talks/future-talks-015/registration-015>

Registration and payment must be transferred to Die Neue Sammlung
bank account (see below) not later than September 30, 2015 (early
bird: July 15, 2015).

Numbers for the conference are limited and early registration is
advised. Register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Please note that registration is required.

Conference fee (3 day-ticket): The registration fee is graduated.
Please note there is a higher fee if you register after July 15,
2015.

Early bird (booking and payment until July 15, 2015): Euro 200,00
after July 15, 2015: Euro 300,00

Students:
Early bird (booking and payment until June 30, 2015): Euro 100,00
after July 15, 2015:     Euro 200,00

Evening reception (October 29, 2015): Euro 50,00
(includes an open buffet and free drinks)

Organizer:

    The Conservation Department of Die Neue Sammlung, The
    International Design Museum Munich
    <URL:http://www.die-neue-sammlung.de>

Die Neue Sammlung houses the world's largest and most important
collection of industrial design.  The large number of objects
reflects the technologies and materials developed in the course of
the 20th and 21st century, attesting in particular to the use of
plastics.  However, unlike most traditional materials these are
subject to a dynamic aging process and after only a short time often
already bear irreversible traces of their age.  Corresponding types
of damage can hardly be reconciled with the respective designer's
original intentions and are often problematic in terms of
conservation.  Since its founding in 2002, the Conservation
Department has become an important hub for the conservation and
maintenance of modern design objects, through research into the
deterioration and preservation of the collections, the development
of new conservation processes and the knowledge of its original
technology.  It also plays an active role in networking and
information sharing.

Both knowledge and network expanded to the FUTURE TALKS, an
international platform, initiating an intensive and profound
discourse on practical conservation treatments of modern materials.

Lectures (subject to change)

    Designers on design

        Nitzan Cohen
        Professor for industrial and system design HBK Stuttgart,
        industrial designer, Munich, Germany

        Karim Habib
        Chief designer, BMW, Munich, Germany

        Axel Thallemer
        Full professor with tenure at National University of
        Singapore and Deputy Head of Research for Industrial Design,
        Singapore

    Back to the origins: Understanding the history of production and
    its influence on the properties of acrylic sheet

        Sara Babo
        Joana Lia Ferreira
        Ana Maria Ramos
        Maria Joao Melo
        University Nova, Lisbon, Portugal

    Matching the colours in the reconstruction of modern artworks

        Lydia Beerkens
        SRAL Maastricht
        The Netherlands

    Dipping into colors: Studies on the coloring of plastics

        Anne Biber
        Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Le Chant du Styrene by Paul Cocksedge: Research into bonding and
    filling media for degraded expanded polystyrene

        Nahema Borrel
        University Sorbonne Paris

    Lasers application for the cleaning of plastic supports

        Grazia De Cesare
        Accademia di Belle Arti de L'Aquila, Chieti, Italy

        Chiara Russo
        Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers, Foundation for
        Research and Technology - Hellas (IESL-FORTH), Greece

    Reflectance transformation.  Imaging of transparent polymers

        Alexander M. Dittus
        Zurich, Switzerland

    "Gargantua e Pantagruel" by Stefano Arienti: The degradation and
    subsequent restoration of a polystyrene work of art

        Caroline Dupre
        Rome, Italy

        Francesca Secchi
        Rome, Italy

    The plasticine model for Benediction by Jacques Lipchitz
    (1891-1973)

        Suzanna Yasemin Etyemez
        Los Angeles, USA
        Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Dresden, Germany

    The Sacchi Collection.  From model to object

        Silvana Annicchiarico
        Barbara Ferriani
        Francesca Caterina Izzo
        Elisabetta Zendri
        Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy
        Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice-Mestre, Italy

    The cleaning and conservation of plastic artefacts found in
    museum collections

        Anna L. Fricker
        David S. McPhail
        Brenda Keneghan
        Boris Pretzel
        Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
        Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.

    Discolouration of plastic objects: The identification of yellow
    and orange synthetic organic pigments in plastic objects

        Suzan de Groot
        Henk van Keulen
        Sharon van den Akker
        Thea van Oosten
        Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE),
        Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    Sticking to the Tube Chair: Conservation treatment for a design
    classic in use

        Katharina Haider
        Bacon Studios, Berlin, Germany

    Conservation of formica

        Thijs Janssen
        University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Updating POPART's cleaning protocols and low-cost monitoring of
    deteriorating plastics by way of a Raspberry Pi

        Mark Kearney
        Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

    The Eameses' La Chaise and its delayed production.
    A technical study.

        Roger Griffith, Ellen Moody, Anne Grady
        The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

    Exploding Sodas, Shrinking Fruit, and Yesterday's CD-ROMs:
    Content and Conservation of the AIGA Design Archives at the
    Denver Art Museum

        Darrin Alfred, Sarah Melching, Kate Moomaw
        Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA

    3d printed metal in design.

        Steven Pine
        The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

    The lustrum of a 'temporary' treatment of the original Steltman
    Chairs by Gerrit Rietveld:  How an interim intervention turns
    out to last.

        Evelyne Snijders
        Haarlem, The Netherlands

    Rietveld's Beugelstoel: The Early Models Made of Vulcanised
    Fibre

        Mareike Stober
        Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany

    Stretch in space: Research into the mechanical properties of
    installations of knitted polyamide under stress

        Carien van Aubel
        Suzan de Groot
        Henk van Keulen
        Tatja Scholte
        Emmy de Groot
        University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, The
        Netherlands

    Synthetic Furs in Art.
    Materials, processes and cleaning methods

        Katja van de Braak
        Anna Lagana
        Suzan de Groot
        Henk van Keulen
        Ellen Jansen
        Rene Peschar
        University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, The
        Netherlands

    On contemporary artwork production.

        Viola Eickmeier
        Ingo Vetter
        University of the Arts Bremen, Germany Studioviolet, Berlin,
        Germany


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