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Somewhat Different Contemporary Design And The Power Of Convention - Exhibition. After having been shown at NID (National Institute of Design), the Design exhibition 'Somewhat Different - Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention' comes to Delhi. The Institut fr Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (ifa) and curator Prof. Volker Albus have prepared this exhibition which shows selected examples of this design phenomenon. The great diversity of designs diverging from the conventional is illustrated by 106 different items and a total of 148 objects by 67 individual designers and studios, 47 of them based in Germany and 20 in other European countries. The exhibition discusses the objects in terms of function, materials, construction and content references. The bookshelf, the Persian rug, the easy chair: these generic terms alone trigger associations relating to the structural, decorative and configurative aspects of the objects. This is why designers deliberately subvert their general, conventional understanding to reveal their absurdity. The designs do not only provoke astonishment, but challenge one to reflect on general expectations, codes of behaviour as well as the referential context of firmly established notions, and to review traditional fixations

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