TRACES | Jesko Fezer: Partisan exhibiting and active remembrance against the right

Jesko Fezer: Party exhibition and active remembrance against the right
Party design is an attempt to add a practical perspective to the idea that design can have a socially emancipatory effect. By repositioning design in relation to its users, those affected by it, as well as their social reality and environment, the aim is to place the claim of politically committed design more tangibly in the social space - at which it is aimed. On the basis of biased exhibition projects by the Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik and one-sided political memory projects by the Öffentliche Gestaltungsberatung St. Pauli in public space, the claim of creative partisanship will be discussed.

The Transdisciplinary Research Center for Exhibition Studies (TRACES) bundles interdisciplinary research approaches on the history and present of exhibitions at the School of Art and Design Kassel and various Faculties of the University of Kassel. The research station on Lutherplatz was built by students at the University of Kassel in summer 2021, based on a design by Bauhaus teacher Ludwig Hilberseimer, and serves to promote dialog between urban society and the university. Here, students and lecturers provide insights into their work with talks, lectures, workshops, seminars and exhibitions and involve the public in research in the sense of "citizen science". more about TRACES

TRACES lecture series summer 2026