A new exhibition at the Design Museum Den Bosch explores the relationship between design and the nation state. How does something become a national symbol, and who gets to decide that? Nieuwe Instituut is contributing 19 objects from the National Collection to the Designing the Nation State exhibition. These include drawings of the Peace Palace in The Hague and models by designer Malkit Shoshan, created during her research into the architecture of UN peacekeeping missions.
“ Our lives are filled with well-known and lesser-known designs that remind us where our loyalty ought to lie.”
– Design Museum Den Bosch website
Most of the objects loaned by the Nieuwe Instituut are on display in the themed section, States of the Imagination. Here, the world beyond the nation-state is explored. Organisations such as the EU and the UN represent the dream of ‘internationalism’. Malkit Shoshan’s proposal and the designs for the Peace Palace are examples of attempts to realise that dream.
Read more: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/articles/bruikleen-vorm-vaderland and https://designmuseum.nl/en/tentoonstellingen/designing-the-nation-state/
