ISBN：9783037785690  

书名：Renny Ramakers Rethinking Design—Curator of Change/雷尼·拉梅克斯：重新思考设计 - 变革的策展人

作者：Aaron Betsky

出版：Lars Muller Publishers，2018

装帧：平装，308页，插图400 Illustrations, unspecified

语种：英语

尺寸：16.5 × 24 cm

印刷：Germany

内容提要：

雷尼·拉梅克斯（1946年-）的作品将虚拟技术、社交媒体与设计工艺结合，发展出了新型的社会关系。在过去的30多年，这位荷兰艺术史学者、批评家和策展人不断影响着人们对设计的本质和用途的思考。作为世界知名设计团队Droog Design的联合创始人，她提倡的理念是：家具与工业设计可作为对当今世界的重新思考。

当Droog Design首次亮相于1993年的米兰家具展时，它通过组合现成品材料和诙谐的外观形式迅速改变了设计领域的景观。由此，拉梅克斯开始与制造商和创意人士合作，让设计超越华而不实，并开展了具有批判意义的项目。这些设计不仅让人们看到了现实的多面性与不同可能，也为用户提供了便捷、愉悦的体验。

本书作者认为雷尼·拉梅克斯的设计具有以下特点：融合高端与通俗文化、重新运用图像，强调诙谐、用户参与度，同时注重去除包装后物品的优雅，并突出了设计作为产生社会变革的催化剂这一可能。本书探究了拉梅克斯自1980年起的作品，包括她撰写的大量设计相关文章与书籍，也包括她作为设计师、项目总监、策划者，以及思想者所做出的工作成果。

Renny Ramakers is realizing projects that combine virtual technologies and social media with the craft of design to develop new social relations. For more than three decades, the Dutch art historian, critic, and curator has been influencing the nature and purpose of design. As co-founder of the Droog Design collective, she has championed the notion of furniture and industrial design as a rethinking of today’s world.

When Droog first exhibited at the Milan furniture fair in 1993, its assemblies of found materials and witty forms instantly changed the landscape of design. Since then, Ramakers has worked with makers and creators to move beyond slick objects and towards critical projects that open our eyes to our multifaceted realities while offering easy access and great joy to users.

Author Aaron Betsky describes the ways Renny Ramakers has emphasized the mix of high and low cultures, the reuse of images, the importance of wit, the necessity of user participation, the elegance of the undressed object, and the possibility of design acting as a catalyst to create social change. This volume will survey the work Ramakers has done since 1980 as the author of countless articles and books on design, as the promotor of Droog, as project director and curator, and as thinker.