Head of Department: common-interest (Nina Paim & Corinne Gisel)
The Department of Non-Binaries rejects smooth-edged simplicity and embraces the complexity that makes up today’s landscape of graphic design, human culture, and personal identity. It brings together a group of international practitioners whose hybrid activities are hard to define. Their practices are in between, at the crossroads, or at the intersection of disciplines and cultures. Their work is many things at the same time. What unites these practitioners from different creative and cultural fields is a ‘designerly’ way of thinking and making. Critically attuned to the power that tools of communication assume in a world that is increasingly designed, they are simultaneously conscious of their own ways of presentation and representation. The Department of Non-Binaries thus understands design neither as a noun nor as a verb, but as an adverb: design as a gaze or a modality, rather than a discipline.
Participants: Alexandra Bell, Amalia Pica, Anja Kaiser, Bayn Journal (Elham Namvar & Rasha Dakkak), Benedetta Crippa, Cheb Moha, Christopher Benton, Josh Begley, Justin Zhuang and gideon-jamie (Gideon Kong & Jamie Yeo), Jonathas de Andrade, Krishna Balakrishnan, Lawrence Lemaoana, Lizania Cruz, Loraine Furter, Manuela Eichner, Naz Naddaf, Oddkin (Márton Kabai & Natela Lemodzhava), Paula Minelgaitė, Shamma Buhazza, Sina Fakour, Thaakierah Abdul
