Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
November 26, 2015 – April 3, 2016

The exhibition will highlight Mächtig’s systemic reasoning that led to his endless modular structures, clearly defined work practice and research methodology and to his design policy strategies.

We invite you to join us at the opening of the retrospective exhibition Saša J. Mächtig: systems, structures, strategies that will be held on Thursday, 26 November 2015 at 19:00, at the Museum of Architecture and Design. The exhibition will highlight systemic thinking of Saša J. Mächtig, which has led to the endless modular structures, clearly designed methodologies of work and research, and to the strategies of design policies. Complexity of Mächtig’s creation is represented by more than 350 units of archive material, most of which comprise of original material from the author’s archives and include drawings, plans, models and structures.

Saša J. Mächtig (b. 1941), designer and architect, is one of the most important figures in the field of Slovenian industrial design. His creative process is characterized by a systemic approach; the design of his objects and strategies always makes them a part of a broader system that can evolve, grow and change. His most celebrated work is the modular multifunctional unit – Kiosk K67 that marked the images of Slovenian and other Central European cities throughout the second half of the 20th century. His other design achievements are also bus stop shelter system Euromodul, reservoirs for useful waste Ekos that paved the way for Slovenia’s waste separation system, film programme advertising boxes, telephone buffers, garbage bins Žaba (trans. frog), the summer pavilion for the coffeehouse Evropa in Ljubljana, and many other elements of street furniture. To understand his work, one must inevitably consider the context of the street – when designing his objects, which were always part of a broader system, he also explored the perceptions of mobile urban population. Mächtig, himself a student of Professor Ravnikar and the so-called Course B in design, was one of the founders of design studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University in Ljubljana. He was a Professor of Planning in Industrial Design and Design Management, and now holds the title of Professor Emeritus. He was also an active member of executive committees of ICSID and CUMULUS, and one of the initiators and active organizers of the 17th ICSID World Congress in Ljubljana. Throughout his career he encouraged debates and promoted the importance of integration between academic knowledge and that of economy and industry.

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Info:
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