26th Brno Biennial 2014 / official opening - Taking a Line for a Walk

Passed along, replicated, adapted, evolved over time, assignments are as much informed by methodologies and the history of design education as they are figments of the teacher's present, thought up, written down, dreamt up, jotted down. Objects and books may assist their teaching, and their outcome may most often be visual, but assignments are essentially language. The teacher as author. They lay out rules, give instructions, present a problem, describe an exercise, entice an activity, propose a game, stimulate a process, or throw up questions. Like riddles, they elicit thinking and ask for solutions, while indirectly defining and formulating ideas about design. This exhibition investigates the ways and lines of instructing design and invites you to explore its rooms. Walk your own line. Look, play, listen, read, think.