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12/06/2024

28/05/2024

Last chance to register for today’s talk organized by ICOM-ICDAD!

ICDAD Talk - May 28, 2024
"Use the F*word! Transforming Collections with the Strategies of the Guerrilla Girls"

Dr. Julia Meer on the Exhibition "THE F*WORD Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design" at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

While the number of special exhibitions on female designers has increased significantly in the past decade, the representation of women in museum collections is still meager. At the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg only 1.5% of 400,000 works in the graphics and poster collection were designed by women. The 2023 exhibition "The F*word – Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design" asked why and presented the museum’s first attempts to change this situation. The lecture will discuss curatorial ideas and institutional challenges, successes as well as failures. One focus will be the design of the exhibition and how it – despite the depressing statistical findings – created an empowering experience. The talk will look at strategies the team explored for expanding the collection such as ‘Open Call for Feminist Zines’ and a ‘Call for Participation’ – which failed miserably. So where do we go from here? Rather than giving answers, the exhibition as well as the lecture offer insights into an ongoing process.

Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 3:00pm Central European Summer Time (CEST), 9:00am New York (EDT), 22:00 Tokyo (JST)
Online Zoom Meeting (approx. 1 hour program)

Speaker
Dr. Julia Meer, Curator and Head of the Graphics and Poster Collection at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Moderator
Shoshana Resnikoff, Demmer Curator of 20th and 21st Century Design · Milwaukee Art Museum

Register for the talk:
https://icom-icdad.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b4a584461438fcda0defb33aa&id=f38d06e571&e=edbeac8f2e

You will be sent a link shortly before the program.

This talk is the third in a series of online conversations with decorative arts and design professionals organized by ICOM-ICDAD, the International rdCouncil of Museum's International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and Design.

22/05/2024

ICDAD Talk - May 28, 2024

"Use the F*word! Transforming Collections with the Strategies of the Guerrilla Girls"

Dr. Julia Meer on the Exhibition "THE F*WORD Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design" at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Use the F*word!
Transforming Collections with the Strategies of the Guerrilla Girls

While the number of special exhibitions on female designers has increased significantly in the past decade, the representation of women in museum collections is still meager. At the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg only 1.5% of 400.000 works in the graphics and poster collection were designed by women. The 2023 exhibition The F*word – Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design asked why and presented the museum’s first attempts to change this situation. The lecture will discuss curatorial ideas and institutional challenges, successes as well as failures. One focus will be the design of the exhibition and how it – despite the depressing statistical findings – created an empowering experience. The talk will look at strategies the team explored for expanding the collection such as ‘Open Call for Feminist Zines’ and a ‘Call for Participation’ – which failed miserably. So where do we go from here? Rather than giving answers, the exhibition as well as the lecture offer insights into an ongoing process.

Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 3:00pm Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Online Zoom Meeting (approx. 1 hour program)

Speaker
Dr. Julia Meer, Curator and Head of the Graphics and Poster Collection at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Moderator
Shoshana Resnikoff, Demmer Curator of 20th and 21st Century Design · Milwaukee Art Museum

Register for the talk:
https://icom-icdad.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b4a584461438fcda0defb33aa&id=f38d06e571&e=edbeac8f2e

You will be sent a link shortly before the program.

This talk is the third in a series of online conversations with decorative arts and design professionals organized by ICOM-ICDAD, the International Council of Museum's International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and Design.

22/08/2023

ICDAD ANNUAL CONFERENCE / LISBON 2023
OPEN FOR REGISTRATIONS!

ORNAMENT
10-12 OCTOBER 2023
13-14 POST - CONFERENCE TOUR

10 OCTOBER — PALÁCIO NACIONAL DA AJUDA
Largo da Ajuda 1349-021 Lisboa
09:00 → 09:30
Registration
09:30 → 10:00
Welcome
PNA Director, ICDAD Chair, ICOM PT Chair
MORNING SESSION
Moderators: José Alberto Ribeiro (Diretor at Palácio Nacional da Ajuda) and Denise Hagströmer (Senior Curator, National
Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway)
10:00 → 10:25
Silvia Ferreira, keynote speaker / IHA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST
O jogo das formas: o lugar do ornamento na talha barroca portuguesa
10:30 → 10:45
Daniela Saldanha (Researcher / Brazil)
The historiography of ornament
10:50 → 11:05
Cristina Aldrich (Doctoral Candidate, NYU / USA)
Valencian Lusterware at the Cloisters: Shedding New Light on Iridescent
11:10 → 11:40
Coffee break
ORNAMENT
ICDAD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
LISBON
10-12 OCTOBER 2023

11:45 → 12:00
Lan-yin Huang (National Palace Museum / Taiwan)
Differentiation and Reveal: Decoration of Yongle (1403-1424) to Jiajing(1521-1567) Porcelain of the
Ming Dynasty
12:05 → 12:20
Martina Pall (Former dir. Museum Schell Collection / Austria)
Grotesques, Chimeras and Griffins. Ornaments to protect entrance gates and treasures
12:20 → 13:30
Discussion
12:30 → 13:15
Guided visit to Palácio Nacional da Ajuda
13:15 → 14:25
Lunch break
AFTERNOON VISITS
14:30 → 16:00
Jerónimos Convent and Church
https://www.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/en/museus-e-monumentos/dgpc/m/mosteiro-dos-jeronimos/
16h30 → 17h30
MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
https://maat.pt/
17h30 → Suggestion: Free visit to LX Factory
ORNAMENT
ICDAD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
LISBON
10-12 OCTOBER 2023

11 OCTOBER — PALÁCIO NACIONAL DA AJUDA
Largo da Ajuda 1349-021 Lisboa
MORNING SESSION
Moderators: Melissa Rinne (senior specialist at the Kyoto National Museum, Japan) and Sarah Chasse (Associate
Curator, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA)
09:15 → 09:30
Caroline Heering (University of Louvain / Belgium)
The ‘ornamentalisation’ of the ornamenta sacra during the early modern period. The case of
religious textiles in the Low Countries during the early modern period
09:35 → 09:50
Nan Han (UCCA Center for Contemporary Art / China)
Rethinking ornament through global art history, a case study of panni tartarici
09:55 → 10:10
Mark Sagona (Head of Department of Art and Art History, University of Malta / Malta)
The nature of ornament in the ecclesiastical decorative arts in Malta (1850-1900): evolution,
typologies and influences
10:10 → 10:25
Emily Pearce Seigerman (Yale University Art Gallery / USA)
Adornament: Numismatics as ornament
10:30 → 10:45
Maria Friend (Cook University / Australia)
The line of strength: Javanese parang rusak motif in European art
10:50 → 11:10
Coffee break
11:15 →11:30
Siti Mahmudah Nur Fauziah (Museum Sonobudoyo / Indonesia)
Sêngkalan Mêmêt: Beautiful Ornament as a Marker of Time
11:35 →11:50
Nissim Gal (Art History Department of the University of Haifa / Israel)
Contemporary Palestinian Ornament
11:55 →12:10
Pandora Syperek (V&A Research Institute and Institute for Design Innovation and
Loughborough University / UK)
Evolutionary Aesthetics in the Bethnal Green Museum’s Collection of Animal Products
12:15 →12:30
Rebecca Chih-I Lai (National Palace Museum / Taiwan)
Made to Impress: The Cloisonné Duomuhu of the Qianlong Reign in the National Palace
Museum Collection
ORNAMENT
ICDAD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
LISBON
10-12 OCTOBER 2023

12:35 → 12:50
António Cota (Doctoral Candidate, FCSH-NOVA University / Portugal)
The Wild & Wessel lamp factory of Berlin (1855-1903) and the development of ornaments
12:55 → 13:10
Moira Gallagher Ferguson (The Tiffany Archives / USA)
Next Level Luxury: Hardstone, Gem, and Pearl-Encrusted Hollowware at Tiffany & Co., 1885-
1905
13:10 → 13:20
Discussion
13:10 → 14:20
Lunch break
AFTERNOON GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND VISITS
14:20 →15:20
ICDAD General Assembly
15:20 →16:15
Royal Treasure Museum – Palácio Nacional da Ajuda
https://www.tesouroreal.pt/
16:30 →18:00
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
http://www.museudearteantiga.pt/
18h30 →
Sao Roque Church
19:00 → Suggestion: Free visit to Principe Real Area: Portuguese design shops, antique dealers etc.
ORNAMENT
ICDAD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
LISBON
10-12 OCTOBER 2023

12 OCTOBER — MUSEUM OF PORTUGUESE DECORATIVE ARTS / FRESS
Largo das Portas do Sol, 2, 1100-411 Lisboa
MORNING SESSION
Moderators: Teresa Caeiro (Director of FRESS Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts) and Shoshana Resnikoff
(Curator of 20th- and 21st-Century Design at Milwaukee Art Museum, USA)
09:00 → 09:15
Gerry Alaboone (National Trust and London Art School / UK)
Gender enrichment in Jacobean ornament
09:20 → 09:35
Daniela Roberts (Institute of Art History in Würzburg / Germany)
Gothic ornament and its contribution to a new historicist style in Georgian England
09:40 → 09:55
Katherine Manthorne (Art History Program. Graduate Center, City University of New York /
USA)
Ornament & Manifest Destiny in American Domestic Interiors ca. 1848
10:00 → 10:15
Sarah Scarlet Farr (Brantwood House - John Ruskin’s former home / UK)
Managing Visual Material Culture in the English Lake District. The Evolution of Décor at
Brantwood. The wall as canvas in John Ruskin’s former home.
10:20 → 10:35
Xiaomo Wang and Yihan Wang (Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University / China)
Rationalizing home beautification: the role of decoration in constructing the modern home in
early 20th-century China
10:35 → 10:55
Coffee Break
11:00 → 11:15
Mariàngels Fondevila (Museu Nacional d'Art Catalunya Barcelona / Spain)
Jujol. Ornament and Sustainability
11:20 → 11:35
Ko Goubert (Museum M Leuven / Belgium)
Sumptuous sobriety: form and materiality as ornament in the religious Art Deco design of Dom
Martin Martin osb (1889-1965)
11:40 → 12:00
Discussion
12:05 → 13:10
Visit to Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts
13:10 → 14:10
Lunch break
ORNAMENT
ICDAD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
LISBON
10-12 OCTOBER 2023

AFTERNOON VISITS
14:15 → 15:15
Visit to the workshops of the Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Foundation (FRESS)
15:20 → 16:30
São de Fora Vicente Monastery and Church
https://mosteirodesaovicentedefora.com/en/inicio-english/
16h40 → 18:00
National Tile Museum
www.museudoazulejo.pt
20h00 → 22h30
Farewell Dinner
Pap’Açorda Restaurant
Mercado da Ribeira (Time Out Market)
Av. 24 de Julho 49-1º 1200-479 Lisboa

18/08/2023

Join us for the second in an online lecture series on Decorative Arts and Design

ICOM-ICDAD TALKS
Design Studio FormaFantasma on the Exhibition
Oltre Terra. Why Wool Matters at the National Museum, Oslo

Wednesday, 13 September 2023
(approx. 1 hour Zoom online program) 15:00 Paris (UTC+1)
6:00 Los Angeles, 9:00 New York, 10:00 Brasilia, 13:00 Accra, 14:00 London, 16:00 Cairo, 18:30 New Delhi, 20:00 Jakarta, 21:00 Beijing, 22:00 Tokyo, 23:00 Sydney

https://icom-icdad.org/activities

Organized in partnership with ICOM-COSTUME

Register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/billets-icdad-talks-formafantasma-on-the-exhibition-oltre-terra-why-wool-matters-699464225327?aff=oddtdtcreator

SPEAKERS:
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, Design Studio FormaFantasma

MODERATORS:
Denise Hagströmer, Senior Curator, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Shoshana Resnikoff, Demmer Curator of 20th and 21st Century Design · Milwaukee Art Museum



In the exhibition Oltre Terra. Why Wool Matters, on view at the National Museum, Oslo, 26 May–1 October 2023, the multidisciplinary design studio Formafantasma investigates the history, ecology and global dynamics of the extraction and production of wool. The name of the exhibition stems from the etymology of the word transhumance, formed by the combination of the Latin words trans (across, 'oltre' in Italian) and humus (grounds, 'terra').

The project seeks to avoid the simplistic definition of wool as just a material, and to expand its understanding within a much broader ecology. Wool is the entry point to explore and investigate an intricate realm of interactions and interdependencies within an ecosystem. By looking at the development of wool production, artefacts history and material culture, Oltre Terra aims at unravelling the complexities of the cooperative symbiosis between animals, humans, and the environment.

The scope of the exhibition is to explore this very intimate, yet intricate relationship between humans and animals, in which the boundaries between tamer and domesticated fade. Material culture and biological evolution are too often conceptually separated, which calls for a holistic perspective on the interdependency between production processes and biological evolution.

Join us for an online presentation and discussion of the Oltre Terra project with Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of FormaFantasma, based in Amsterdam.

Read more about the exhibition Oltre Terra. Why Wool Matters:
https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitions-and-events/national-museum/exhibitions/2023/oltre-terra.-why-wool-matters/

06/07/2023

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER

ICDAD Talk - July 7, 2023 2 PM Paris, 8 AM New York, 9 PM Tokyo

Retrotopia: Design for Socialist Spaces

The first in a series of online conversations with decorative arts and
design professionals sponsored by ICDAD.

What happens when a network of curators from across Eastern Europe come together to answer the question: what role did design play in the landscape, culture, and practices of the former Eastern Bloc?

The answer is Retrotopia: Design for Socialist Spaces, a groundbreaking collaboration and exhibition that provides new and surprising insights into the design landscape of a region that remains largely unexplored by the broader—and particularly Western—public. At the initiative of Berlin’s Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts), eleven teams based in Tallinn, Vilnius, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Kyiv, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Eisenhüttenstadt, and Berlin were invited to work together in co-curating this exhibition.

On July 7 at 2:00 PM CEST, please join Dr. Claudia Banz, Curator of Design at Kunstgewerbemuseum and Chief Curator of Retrotopia and curators from across the Retrotopia project for an online conversation that explores this major exhibition. Curators will discuss the themes documented in the show, and explore the process of bringing together such a complex and ground-breaking exhibition.

Participating in the talk will be:
Claudia Banz, Curator for design, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Mari Laanemets, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Art History and Visual Culture / Estonian Academy of Arts
Koraljka Vlajo, Head of Design Collections, Museum of Arts and Crafts Zagreb
Kaja Muszynska, Co-curator of the Polish Design Gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw
Polina Baitsym, Unaffiliated art historian and curator, PhD Candidate in History at Central European University (Austria/Hungary)

Register for the talk HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/retrotopia-design-for-socialist-spaces-tickets-658096172367

The talk will take place on Zoom, and a link will be shared the day before the talk.

This talk is the first in a series of online conversations with decorative arts and design professionals sponsored by ICDAD.

Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces is on view at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin through July 18 and is funded by Kuratorium Preussischer Kulturbesitz

Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces was initiated by the Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in collaboration with: the Museum of Utopia and Daily Life (Beeskow/Eisenhüttenstadt), the Slovakian Design Center (Bratislava), the Slovak National Gallery Bratislava, the Moravian Gallery (Brno), the Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art (Kaunas), Museum of Contemporary Art NGO (Kyiv), Stedley Art Foundation (Kyiv), the Museum of Architecture and Design (Ljubljana), the National Gallery Prague, the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (Tallinn), NGO Imago of Culture (Uzhorod), the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (Vilnius), the National Museum in Warsaw, and the Museum of Arts and Crafts (Zagreb), Chernihiv Monumentalism Community, ARWM Cultural Heritage Conservation Fund.

The project is curated and directed by Claudia Banz, curator for design at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, in collaboration with co-curators Polina Baitsym, Alex Bykov, Melinda Farkasdy, Judith Horváth, Helena Huber-Doudová, Silke Ihden-Rothkirch, Karolina Jakaitė, Viera Kleinová, Rostislav Koryčánek, Mari Laanemets, Kai Lobjakas, Florentine Nadolni, Anna Maga, Kaja Muszyńska, Cvetka Požar, Klára Prešnajderová, Alyona Sokolnikova, and Koraljka Vlajo.

Installation views © David von Becker

12/05/2023

Ornament or Not?
This year we will answer this question in Lisbon at the ICDAD Annual Conference. Send iyour proposal on the subject and join us for five days of study and visits in Lisbon and surroundings.
More informations in the ICDAD website.

03/05/2023

CALL FOR PAPERS!
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2023
LISBON OCT. 10-12
ORNAMENT
Ornament is not only produced by criminals; it itself commits a crime,” So said architect and designer Adolf Loos in his 1910 lecture-turned-essay “Ornament and Crime,” where he described the effort in designing and creating ornaments as superfluous and wasteful and helped to set the stage for the minimalist, stripped-down forms that would shape modern architecture and design for much of the twentieth century. More than fifty years later, postmodern designers rejected the strict functionalism of modern design, with Robert Venturi declaring, “more is more, less is a bore,” and Ettore Sottsass poetically describing decoration as “a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.”
The debate over ornament—what is its purpose, what should it look like, how should it be applied, and is it even necessary at all—chronologically and geographically transcends any of these figures and is in fact as old as the field of decorative arts itself. Skilled craftspeople have been producing ornament-laden decorative arts for more than a millennia. Throughout the world, cultures have developed complex relationships to ornament, making it an ideal topic for ICDAD’s 2023 annual meeting.
This year’s ICDAD conference invites papers that consider the many dimensions of ornament and its multiple roles in decorative arts and design. For instance, what is its role today? How have relationships to decoration evolved over periods of time? What are its social and political functions? Does ornament enhance or obscure meaning and use? How do different cultures address ornament and decoration, and where have they served as a connector between communities? How does decoration function in global art history, and how might the approaches taken by artists and makers in non-western countries illuminate alternative relationships to ornament?
Lisbon is an interesting site for this productive dialogue; a city marked by its centuries-old tradition of decorative tile as well as gilded and polychrome wood carving. Lisbon is also the home of present-day designers rethinking associations to material and aesthetics. The ICDAD meeting in Lisbon will take full advantage of this fertile ground, visiting significant historical sites and museums throughout the city and the surroundings while engaging with contemporary collections and makers.
The after conference tour shall be to Sintra and Coimbra, October 13-14.

HOW TO APPLY
Send an abstract of 250–300 words, including a short CV to: [email protected]
Proposals must be written in English, and participants will also be expected to give their presentations in English.
Presentations should be 15 minutes in length and include a visual presentation component (Powerpoint, Google Slides, etc.). Participants will also have the opportunity to publish their papers in the ICDAD conference publication.

Presenters will be expected to cover their own registration, but travel grants for young ICOM members are available. More information about travel grants will be released shortly.
Please note: ICDAD welcomes abstracts from museum professionals worldwide, members and non-members. However, all participants must be individual members or representatives of institutional members of ICDAD at the time of the conference.
Find more information about how to become a member of ICOM and ICDAD here: https://icom.museum/en/get-involved/.
If you are already a member of ICOM, please log in to the IRIS memberspace and choose ICDAD as your primary International Committee: https://icom-museum.force.com/login

01/04/2023

International Committee for Decorative Arts and Design Museums and Collections (ICOM-ICDAD)
CALL FOR PAPERS "Ornament"
Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
10-12 October 2023

Submission deadline: 15 May 2023

“Ornament is not only produced by criminals; it itself commits a crime,” So said architect and designer Adolf Loos in his 1910 lecture-turned-essay “Ornament and Crime,” where he described the effort in designing and creating ornaments as superfluous and wasteful and helped to set the stage for the minimalist, stripped-down forms that would shape modern architecture and design for much of the twentieth century. More than fifty years later, postmodern designers rejected the strict functionalism of modern design, with Robert Venturi declaring, “more is more, less is a bore,” and Ettore Sottsass poetically describing decoration as “a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.”

The debate over ornament—what is its purpose, what should it look like, how should it be applied, and is it even necessary at all—chronologically and geographically transcends any of these figures and is in fact as old as the field of decorative arts itself. Skilled craftspeople have been producing ornament-laden decorative arts for more than a millennia. Throughout the world, cultures have developed complex relationships to ornament, making it an ideal topic for ICDAD’s 2023 annual meeting.

This year’s ICDAD conference invites papers that consider the many dimensions of ornament and its multiple roles in decorative arts and design. For instance, what is its role today? How have relationships to decoration evolved over periods of time? What are its social and political functions? Does ornament enhance or obscure meaning and use? How do different cultures address ornament and decoration, and where have they served as a connector between communities? How does decoration function in global art history, and how might the approaches taken by artists and makers in non-western countries illuminate alternative relationships to ornament?

Lisbon is an interesting site for this productive dialogue; a city marked by its centuries-old tradition of decorative tile as well as gilded and polychrome wood carving. Lisbon is also the home of present-day designers rethinking associations to material and aesthetics. The ICDAD meeting in Lisbon will take full advantage of this fertile ground, visiting significant historical sites and museums throughout the city and the surroundings while engaging with contemporary collections and makers.

The after conference tour shall be to Coimbra and Porto, in the north of Portugal, on 13 and 14 October.

For more information on how to apply, click below:
https://icom-icdad.org/conference

ICOM's International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Art and Design (ICDAD)

31/12/2022

To end the year, we present you with the minutes of the 2021 annual conference. You can find it in the Internet Archive and Google Books.

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ICDAD - International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and Design.Online, 21–23 October...

30/12/2022

New board for ICDAD has been elected for the period 2023-2025:

https://icom-icdad.org/icdad-elections-for-the-next-2023-2025-triannium-took-place

Wishing you a peaceful end of the year!

ICDAD elections for the next 2023-2025 triannium took place on the xoyondo.com platform this year, immediately following the GEneral Meeting on 16 November 2022. THe voting poll closed on 23 November 2022 at 9 PM Paris time. Annamarie Sendecki and Rosita Nenno (both former board members) supervised....

27/08/2022

ICOM Prague has been an intense and rewarding week with incredible presentations, discussions and visits. Thank you all for joining us here or virtually!

24/08/2022

New museum definition was accepted today at the ICOM Extraordinary General Assembly.
Thank you to everyone who have contributed to the process.
Implementatiom may begin.

Here it is:

English

A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of
society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits
tangible and intangible heritage. Open to the public, accessible and
inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability. They operate and
communicate ethically, professionally and with the participation of
communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment,
reflection and knowledge sharing.

French:

Un musée est une institution permanente, à but non lucratif et au service
de la société, qui se consacre à la recherche, la collecte, la conservation,
l’interprétation et l’exposition du patrimoine matériel et immatériel.
Ouvert au public, accessible et inclusif, il encourage la diversité et la
durabilité. Les musées opèrent et communiquent de manière éthique et
professionnelle, avec la participation de diverses communautés. Ils offrent
à leurs publics des expériences variées d’éducation, de divertissement, de
réflexion et de partage de connaissances.

Spanish:

Un museo es una institución sin ánimo de lucro, permanente y al servicio
de la sociedad, que investiga, colecciona, conserva, interpreta y exhibe el
patrimonio material e inmaterial. Abiertos al público, accesibles e
inclusivos, los museos fomentan la diversidad y la sostenibilidad. Con la
participación de las comunidades, los museos operan y comunican ética y
profesionalmente, ofreciendo experiencias variadas para la educación, el
disfrute, la reflexión y el intercambio de conocimientos.

19/08/2022

Dear ICDAD members!
We are really excited to meet you in Prague in a few days!
While you have had the opportunity to learn about the comprehensive program of ICOM Prague 2022 and the ICDAD sessions, there are some special options organised just for ICDAD members!

!
There is a special opportunity to join a guided tour at the main venue, the impressvie Prague Congress Centre on Moday, 22 August 12:45-13:15 (duration approximately 30 minutes)
Prague Congress Centre is a pompous building from the late 1970s, completed by 1981. It was desgined by a team of architects Jaroslav Mayer, Vladimír Ustohal, Antonín Vaněk and Josef Karlík. The impressive complex underwent extensive reconstruction from 1998-2000. Nevertheless it is contains many magnificent examples of well-survived pieces of furniture and original space-specific works of art.

Meeting point: Prague Congress Centre – Entrace 4 – next to the big tomcat (mascot of ICOM Prague 2022)
!!
27 August – Saturday
Optional program for those who are not on a two-day excursion: walk in Prague led by Helena Koenigsmarkova, former chair of ICDAD, director of UPM (Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague) through the antique gallery and auction house Arthouse Hejtmanek, the district of Art Nouveau villas and Stromomvka Park to the new Art Academy's building.
With a lunch break (covered by each partcipant)

Meeting point: UPM entrance at 10 am
Planned duration until ca 4 pm

08/08/2022

Get a closer look to our program at the ICOM Prague meeting:
https://icom-icdad.org/prague-2022-icdad-programme

ICOM Prague 2022 is almost upon us! The ICDAD programme has been finalized, and is available below. We thank all applicants for their abstracts! All three ICDAD sessions will be presented both online and on-site. If you are considering joining, please do so! Registration is still open. You can find....

14/05/2022

You will still manage:

10/05/2022

Edit: deadline for Early Bird registration is extended until 30 May!

Reminder:

Today, 10 May is the deadline of Early Bird registration for ICOM Prague2022

https://prague2022.icom.museum/registration-information

31/03/2022

Dear colleagues!

ICOM Prague 2022 Call for Papars deadline has been extended until 10 April:
https://icom-icdad.org/update-cfp-and-travel-grant-deadlines-extended-to-april-10

https://prague2022.icom.museum/news/call-for-papers-is-open

28/03/2022

The deadline for the Prague 2022 Call for Papers is approaching!

ICDAD is looking for papers reflecting the
Power of Collecting and Collections.

Please submit your proposals by 31 March!

https://icom.museum/en/news/the-call-for-papers-for-icom-prague-2022-is-still-open/

A global organisation of museums & museum professionals committed to the promotion and protection of cultural heritage

28/02/2022

CALL FOR PAPERS for Prague 2022 is open!

ICDAD is focusing on The Power of Collecting and Collections
sharing a session with our colleagues from ICOM Glass and ICOM Costume committees during the conference:

Collecting as a practice and the collections that result from this practice are crucial for museums. Collecting and collections embody power on many different levels—providing insights and basic knowledge, illustrating specific practices of our work to the widest audiences, and forming a basis for contextualizing our world. How have museums, collecting, and collections influenced communities? How have groundbreaking exhibitions impacted museums, collecting and collections? We encourage original papers that discuss the practice and results of collecting as powerful tools in the fields of decorative arts and design.

Find ICDAD and apply until 31 March:

https://prague2022.icom.museum/news/call-for-papers-is-open