Positions on Freedom | Reader, Museum Angewandte Kunst
POSITIONS ON FREEDOM
2026, EDITION OF 500
ISSUED BY THE THING PUBLISHERS
DESIGN BY AUTOSTRADA
10.5 x 18 cm | 192 PAGES
The reader brings together essays and conversations by contemporary theorists and practitioners, exploring how the things we create interact with concepts of freedom.
I’m delighted to have contributed an excerpt concerning Allegedly Alluring Aesthetics, an ongoing inquiry into female subjectivity, for the reader accompanying the exhibition.
Mediated through textual, curatorial, and spatial iterations, I have approached the boudoir as an architectural typology and a cultural construct. Allegedly Alluring Aesthetics frames gendered interiors not as peripheral or ornamental domains, but as active sites of cultural power and spatial agency.
The publication is issued by the thing Publishers. Contributors include: Anoe Melliou and Anne-Lise Agossa, Anton Rahlwes, Antônio Frederico Lasalvia, Barbara Lersch, Charlotte Rohde, Djamal Elangui Okoko, Inga Krumme and Jamer Hunt, Kelly Walters, Mara Recklies, Mio Kojima, Serena Dokuaa, and Vera Sacchetti.
This reader accompanies the exhibition Positions on Freedom. Design and Its Boundaries, presented at the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, in May 2026; part of World Design Capital 2026 and its overarching theme, Design for Democracy. It is curated by Anton Rahlwes, realised in partnership with USM Modular Furniture.
Exhibited at:
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 2026.
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