Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences | Japanhaus
October 8 2014 / 12-22h

‘Schmuck als urbaner Prozess’ is an experimental exhibition and research project where, under the guidance of the professors Elisabeth Holder and Gabi Schillig, students were examining and designing various outward forms of jewellery in urban space. The resulting objects, performative systems, installations and interventions all go beyond common definitions of jewellery

The symposium with its international and inderdisciplinary nature antedates the exhibition and reflects the crossdisciplinary character of the student projects. This, together with the fact that the symposium makes use of the same set of categories as have been used to structure the exhibition, the symposium will both deepen and enhance the research findings presented and discussed in the exhibition.

*Schmuck, the German term for jewellery, denotes many forms of adornment and decoration that greatly differ from what we normally understand as jewellery. For this reason we left the title untranslated.


Lectures by

Elisabeth Holder, Düsseldorf
Gabi Schillig, Düsseldorf / Berlin
Dr. Susanne Anna, Düsseldorf
Raissa Bonin, Campinas / Hamburg
Karsten Michael Drohsel, Berlin
Willi Dorner, Vienna
Rennie K. Tang, Los Angeles
Yuka Oyama, Tokyo / Berlin
Dr. Barbara Maas / Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences / Japanhaus
Georg-Glock-Str. 19, 40474 Düsseldorf

Schmuck als urbaner Prozess