Searcher Searcher studio / Maja Kolar, Thomas Hügin, Boris Smeenk, Jon Stam, Valentin Vogelmann

A digital tool and an interactive spatial installation for searching museum databases. The work was developed as part of interdisciplinary research, through a series of expert workshops, in close collaboration with three European design museums. The potential and broader application of the experimental method for searching digital collections was tested in real environment, by implementing participatory processes of viewing and interpretation of objects. Backend technology further serves their diversification, thus creating inexhaustible reconfiguration of images, establishing an interesting network of relations between them, presented in form of a visual atlas inspired by the associative image maps by Aby Warburg.

Thomas Hügin (Studio Platypus)

Maja Kolar (Oaza)

Boris Smeenk (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences)

Jon Stam (LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven)

Valentin Vogelmann (Wereldmuseum)

Delavski dom Trbovlje, Slovenija

Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana; Design Museum Ghent; Museum for Arts and Crafts Hamburg

o-funded by funds provided under the European Union’s Creative Europe program. .

06/2024