ornament. beyond adornment

Mo, 4 May: Dr. Anette Rein, ethnologist, Frankfurt, in conversation with Prof. Christine Lüdeke, MA Jewellery
Mo, 18 May: Frieda Dörfer, guilloché master and jewellery maker, Pforzheim, in conversation with Dr. Peter Massin, digital architect, Innsbruck
Mo, 1 June: Oliver Domeisen, ornamentalist, London, in conversation with Antonia Leslie, art direction, Paris

Pforzheim University, School of Design
Holzgartenstraße 36, 75175 Pforzheim
6 pm, Room 321

„To be human is to create systems of ornament“ (Colomina and Wigley, paraphrased), having the unique ability to put thoughts into symbols. Ornament is material and theoretical, general and specific, communicating between the individual and society. We examine the concept of ornament in a larger art historical and sociocultural context, investigating it as an access to the cultural, psychological, and symbolic properties of jewelry and the object.