In the talk series ‘New Modes of Being’, a cooperation between BMW Group Design X Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, the panel discussion ‘NEW MODES V / From Imagination to Storytelling’ will take place on Sunday, 10 November 2024 in the Pinakothek der Moderne. Sitting on the panel and discussing: Doris Dörrie, Christoph Niemann and Anders Warming, moderated by Valerie Präkelt. The discussion is being organised as part of the current exhibition ‘Wo die wilden Striche wohnen’.
Image above: Le Roi Babar, Illustrationen und Text: Jean de Brunhoff, 1946 (Paris:) Hachette, Inv.-Nr. 67/60, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Foto: Die Neue Sammlung (K. Mewes, J. Minne).
The power of imagination as the source of our ideas. Full of curiosity and openness to explore what has not yet been thought or done. The power of storytelling to follow this path in order to discover new worlds, ideas and possibilities. What guides, inspires and influences us? Is it experiences, decisions, thoughts and feelings? Doris Dörrie, Christoph Niemann and Anders Warming will talk about this in the fifth talk ‘New Modes V / From Imagination to Storytelling’ on Sunday, 10 November 2024 from 11 a.m. to 12 noon. The talk will be moderated by Valerie Präkelt.
PANEL PARTICIPANTS
Doris Dörrie (* 1955) is a writer, director and head of the ‘Creative Writing’ department at the Munich Film Academy. Born in Hanover, she studied theatre and acting in California and New York, but then decided she preferred directing. Alongside her film work (including ‘Männer’, ‘Mitten ins Herz’, ‘Kirschblüten – Hanami’), she has published short stories, novels, a book about writing (‘Leben, schreiben, atmen’) and children’s books. She is head of the ‘Creative Writing’ department at the Munich Film Academy and regularly gives writing workshops. She lives in Munich.
Christoph Niemann (* 1970) is an artist, illustrator and author of numerous books. He lives and works in Berlin. His work has appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The New Yorker, The New York Times and WIRED. He created the first augmented reality cover of The New Yorker as well as a 360° VR animation for their ‘US Open’ issue. Christoph Niemann has been honoured by AIGA, The Art Director’s Club and The Lead Awards and was named a member of the Hall of Fame of the Art Director’s Club New York in 2010. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. The Neue Sammlung-The Design Museum is showing the exhibition ‘Where the wild lines live. Books and illustrations for children’. Christoph Niemann has illustrated and commented on all the exhibition themes with wall drawings. His drawings on the balustrade of the room also form the guidance system to the exhibition’s thematic groups. He has also characterised the accompanying publication with his illustrations.
Anders Warming (* 1972) is Head of BMW Group Designworks & Advanced Design, Design Identity. He has been an integral part of the automotive design scene for over 25 years, including leading positions at renowned automotive brands such as BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce. Further stations in his career have taken him to VW, Bugatti and to the founding and management of his own design agency, Warming Design GmbH. At heart, he is a ‘design worker’ and ‘advanced designer’ who passionately pursues the goal of thinking and experiencing the highest level of innovation and sustainability in vehicle design. In doing so, he follows his knowledge and deep understanding of the art of engineering.
Presenter Valerie Präkelt is a journalist and presenter who specialises in style, aesthetics and contemporary phenomena. She writes about design, art, interiors and fashion. Präkelt was Lead Editor at AD Architectural Digest Germany and continues to support the magazine as a freelance author with a style column. She also writes for Vogue, FAZ and Achtung Mode. As a presenter, she hosts talks and award ceremonies.
‘New Modes of Being‘ THE TALK SERIES’ OPENING TALK was a panel discussion at mcbw 2022 between Anab Jain (Superflux, London), Angelika Nollert (Die Neue Sammlung, Munich) and Adrian van Hooydonk (Head of BMW Group Design, Munich) on the possibilities and ways of using design to give shape to social transformations. In the second talk at mcbw 2023, David Zilber (Food Scientist, Copenhagen), Hella Jongerius (Designer, Berlin) and Kai Langer (BMW Group Design, Munich) discussed how experimenting with processes close to nature can enable a different approach to our resources and new cognitive and sensory experiences. In the third talk as part of the Kunstarealfest 2023, Franziska Gödicke (Architekturpraxis b+, Berlin), Werner Haumayr (BMW Group Design, Munich) and Annette Diefenthaler (Design and Transdisciplinarity, TU Munich) discussed social transformation processes and the need for previously separate disciplines to think together. In the fourth talk, during mcbw 2024, Anna Goldhofer (BMW Group, Munich), Martina Maier (Snøhetta Architecture) and designer Johanna Seelemann discussed how a new relationship with nature can create new perspectives for design and technological progress.
With openness and curiosity, BMW Group Design poses questions about the changing relationship between people and the world. In a profound examination of the present, everything must and may be rethought. But not just any old way. The future needs a past. BMW Group Design is developing a sustainable, inclusive, intellectually and emotionally appealing future that recognises its origins.
The Neue Sammlung, the design museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne, is the oldest design museum in the world and brings together over 120,000 objects that relate the thematic issues of modern and contemporary design to one another. In the X-D-E-P-O-T of the Neue Sammlung, the objects exhibited and presented tell of diversity and the process of an idea and its realisation.
WHEN?
Event: Sunday, 10 November 2024, from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Exhibition dates: until Sunday, 26 January 2025
WHERE?
Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Str. 40
80333 München
