The Design Museum Holon, in Holon, Israel, is hosting an exhibition entitled “Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century Creation.” Organized by international trend setter, Lidewij Edelkoort, it is an expanded version of the one which she curated in Tokyo in 2010.
Exhibits include works by over 60 established and emerging contemporary global designers including Pieke Bergmans, Nacho Carbonell and Atelier van Lieshout and illustrate how the past can influence the designs of today, as stated in the museum’s press release “how the design of the future can be inspired by the archaic aesthetics, organic material and poetic techniques of the past’.
Our conventional notions of design are challenged by the sole use of sustainable materials favoring timber, hide, pulp, fiber, earth and fire, reflecting the move away from luxury and getting back to basics and in doing so, retracing the steps of human history and going back to our primitive roots. The exhibition is through April 2011.
