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  • Cord Riechelmann, Brigitte Oetker (Eds.)

    Toward an Aesthetics of Living Beings / Zu einer Ästhetik…

  • Badura, Dubach, Haarmann, Mersch et al.

    Künstlerische Forschung. Ein Handbuch

  • Marc Kushner

    Die Zukunft der Architektur in 100 Bauwerken

  • Siegfried Zielinski (Hg.)

    Flusseriana: An Intellectual Toolbox

  • Owen Hatherley

    The Ministry of Nostalgia. Consuming Austerity

  • A. Baur, M. Weber (Hg.)

    Better than de Kooning

  • Jörg Heiser

    Doppelleben. Kunst und Popmusik

  • John Roberts

    Die Notwendigkeit von Irrtümern

  • C. Thun-Hohenstein (Ed.)

    Josef Frank. Against Design

  • Friedrich Kittler (Autor), Tania Hron,…

    Baggersee. Frühe Schriften aus dem Nachlass

  • Liz Farrelly, Joanna Weddell

    Design Objects and the Museum

  • Leigh Phillips

    Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts. A…

  • IDEA Magazine

    IDEA 373. Post Independent Magazine

  • Armen Avanessian, Suhail Malik

    Genealogies of Speculation. Materialism and Subjectivity…

  • Duncan McLaren, Julian Agyeman

    Sharing Cities. A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable…

  • Alexandra Manske

    Kapitalistische Geister in der Kultur- und…

  • Wolfgang, Zerwas, Ansheim (Hg.)

    Transformation Design. Perspectives on a New Design Attitude

  • Karl Riha, Jörgen Schäfer (Hg.)

    DADA total. Manifeste, Aktionen, Texte, Bilder

  • Luca Molinari (Ed.)

    Architecture. Movements and Trends from the 19th Century to…

  • Franco "Bifo" Berardi

    And. Phenomenology of the End

  • Lauren Cornell, Ed Halter (Eds.)

    Mass Effect. Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First…

  • Helmut Schmid, Seibundo Shinkosha

    Typography Today. Revised Edition

  • Hartmut Geerken, Chris Trent

    Omniverse – Sun Ra

  • Angela McRobbie

    Be Creative. Making a Living in the New Culture Industries

  • Thomas Großbölting, Rüdiger Schmidt

    Gedachte Stadt - Gebaute Stadt: Urbanität in der deutsch-…

  • Graham Harman

    Vierfaches Objekt

  • Carsten Ruhl, Chris Dähne (Hg)

    Architektur ausstellen. Zur mobilen Anordnung des Immobilen

  • MacArthur, Plaat, Gosseye, Wilson (Eds.)

    Hot Modernism. Queensland Architecture 1945 - 1975

  • J. M. Warmburg, C. Shmidt (Eds.)

    The Construction of Climate in Modern Architectural Culture…

  • James Graham (Ed.)

    2000+: The Urgencies of Architectural Theory

  • Susanne Pietsch, Andreas Mueller (Eds.)

    Walls That Teach. On the Architecture of Youth Centers

  • Friedrich Achleitner

    Wie entwirft man einen Architekten? Porträts von Aalto bis…

  • Bernhard Cella, Leo Findeisen, Agnes…

    NO-ISBN on self-publishing

  • Giovanna Borasi (Ed.)

    The Other Architect. Exhibition: Canadian Centre for…

  • Lijster, Milevska, Gielen, Sonderegger…

    Spaces for Criticism: Shifts in Contemporary Art Discourses

  • Seth Price

    Fuck Seth Price

  • Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams

    Inventing the Future. Postcapitalism and a World Without…

  • Alexander Vasudevan

    Metropolitan Preoccupations. The Spatial Politics of…

  • Enrico Gualini, João Morais Mourato,…

    Conflict in the City. Contested Urban Spaces and Local…

  • Matthias Michalk (Ed.)

    Künstlerische Praktiken um 1990. to expose, to show, to…

  • Jeannette Merker, Riklef Rambow (Hg.)

    Architektur als Exponat. Gespräche über das Ausstellen

  • Mark Wigley

    Buckminster Fuller Inc. Architecture in the Age of Radio

  • Martin und Werner Feiersinger

    Italomodern 2. Architektur in Oberitalien 1946–1976

  • Rainer Hehl, Ludwig Engel

    Berlin Transfer. Hybrid Modernities

  • Rainer Hehl, Ludwig Engel

    Berlin Transfer. Learning from the Global South

  • Ivanisin, Thaler, Blagojevic (Hg.)

    Dobrovic in Dubrovnik. A Venture in Modern Architecture

  • Fezer, Hiller, Hirsch, Kuehn, Peleg (Hg…

    Kollektiv für sozialistisches Bauen. Proletarische…

  • Nicolas Hausdorf, Alexander Goller

    Superstructural Berlin. A Superstructural Tourist Guide to…

  • Herman Hertzberger

    Architecture and Structuralism. The Ordering of Space

  • Maria Hlavajova, Ranjit Hoskote (Eds.)

    Future Publics (the Rest Can and Should Be Done by the…

  • Tobias Engelschall

    Zustände. Eine Topografie architektonischer…

  • Nina Power

    Das kollektive politische Subjekt. Aufsätze zur kritischen…

  • Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (…

    Bunker beleben

  • Daniel Falb, Ulrike Gerhardt,…

    Post-Studio Tales

  • Anri Sala

    Why is colour better than grey?

  • Peter Weibel (Ed.)

    Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century

  • Markus Kutter, Lucius Burckhardt

    Wir selber bauen unsere Stadt: Ein Hinweis auf die…

  • Hal Foster

    Bad New Days. Art, Criticism, Emergency

  • Clog

    Landmark

  • Moderna Museet Stockholm (Ed.)

    Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel

  • Fezer, Hiller, Hirsch, Kuehn, Peleg (Hg…

    Realism Working Group + Dogma . Communal Villa. Production…

  • Rahul Mehrotra, Felipe Vera (Eds.)

    Kumbh Mela. Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City

  • Brandon LaBelle

    Room Tone. Audio Issues Vol. 7

  • Metahaven

    Black Transparency. The Right to Know in the Age of Mass…

  • Kenneth Frampton

    Genealogy of Modern Architecture. A Comparative Critical…

  • Tile von Damm, Anne-Katrin Fenk &…

    OK Otto Koenigsberger. Architecture and Urban Visions in…

  • Vittoria Capresi, Barbara Pampe (Hg.)

    Discovering Downtown Cairo. Architecture and Stories

  • Thomas Köhler, Ursula Müller (Eds.)

    Radikal Modern. Planen und Bauen im Berlin der 1960er-Jahre

  • Niels Lehmann, Christoph Rauhaut (Eds.)

    Fragments of Metropolis Berlin. Berlins expressionistisches…

  • Hans-Christian Dany

    Schneller als die Sonne. Aus dem rasenden Stillstand in…

  • John Dixon Hunt

    A World of Gardens

  • Eeva Liisa Pekonen

    Exhibiting Architecture. A Paradox?

  • M. Danielsen Jolbo, N. L. Markhus (Eds.)

    Shared Territory (Another Space)

  • Keller Easterling

    Die Infrastrukturelle Matrix

  • Zach Klein

    Cabin Porn. Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere

  • Andreas Rost

    Der unbekannte / The unknown / L'inconnu. Oscar…

  • Naomi Beckwith, Dieter Roelstraete (Eds…

    The Freedom Principle. Experiments in Art and Music, 1965…

  • Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal

    Freedom of Use

  • Richard Anderson

    Russia. Modern Architectures in History

  • Keren Cytter

    The Amazing True Story of Moshe Klinberg..

  • Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava / URBZ

    The Slum Outside: Elusive Dharavi

  • Nato Thompson

    Seeing Power. Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century

  • Sidsel Meineche Hansen & Tom…

    Politics of Study

  • Deyan Sudjic

    Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things

  • Elain Harwood

    Space, Hope and Brutalism

  • Jason Kahn

    In Place

  • Nicolás Salazar Sutil

    Motion and Representation. The Language of Human Movement

  • David Watkin

    A History of Western Architecture (sixth Ed.)

  • V. Kulic, T. Parker, M. Penick (Eds.)

    Sanctioning Modernism. Architecture and the Making of…

  • L. Shapton, S. Heti, H. Julavits

    Frauen und Kleider. Was wir tragen, was wir sind

  • Arthur Rüegg, Ruggero Tropeano

    Sammeln heisst Forschen / Collecting as Research.…

  • Mira Mattar (Ed.)

    You Must Make Your Death Public. A collection of texts and…

  • Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter,…

    Seismographic Sounds. Visions of a New World

  • Colin Crouch

    Die bezifferte Welt. Wie die Logik der Finanzmärkte das…

  • Niels Boeing

    Von Wegen. Überlegungen zur freien Stadt der Zukunft

  • Enrico Morteo

    Mario Bellini. Furniture, Machines & Objects

  • Klaus Bollinger, Florian Medicus (Eds.)

    Endless Kiesler

  • Bojana Cvejic & Ana Vujanovic (Ed.)

    Public Sphere by Performance (2nd Edition)

IDEA 386. Ministry of Graphic Design Fikra Graphic Design Biennial 01 Index

Direction by The Office of the Archive (Tetsuya Goto & Saki Ho) & Idea
Design by LABORATORIES (Kensaku Kato, Hiroyuki Kishida)
Translation by Duncan Brotheron, Manami Yamamoto, Emma Okubo, Christopher Stephens, Tetsuya Goto
Cooperation by Fikra Graphic Design Biennial
Photo by Obaid AlBudoor

The Sharjah-based, inaugural Fikra Graphic Design Biennial titled “Ministry of Graphic Design” presents graphic design as an intrinsic part of today’s world, seen in many aspects of our daily routine. Hosted in a country with innovative ministries, such as the Ministry of State for Happiness and Wellbeing and Ministry of Artificial Intelligence, the idea of a fictional “Ministry of Graphic Design” was utilized to dig deep into the origins, contemporary value, and potential of graphic design. Artists from many parts of the globe, including the Middle East, were invited to give lectures, workshops, and hold exhibitions that explored the possibilities of graphic design. 

The “Ministry of Graphic Design” was organized into five departments. The Department of Graphic Optimism presented an overview of graphic design in the UAE between the 1970s and 90s whereas The Department of Mapping Margins analyzed de-centralizing and de-colonizing strategies for design criticism. Design works of a wide range of designers from multi-cultural backgrounds were displayed in The Department of Non-Binaries while The Department of Flying Saucers functioned as an office space for four independent projects across the globe. Lastly, The Department of Dematerializing Language introduced unconventional ways of communication through design works, breaking away from the burden of producing easy-to-understand, legible works. 

This issue serves as an index of the keywords presented in the biennal and an attempt to reimagine the event through the contextualization of the behind-the-scenes work and the words of the artistic directors, curators, and featured artists. 


IDEA Magazine
IDEA 386. Ministry of Graphic Design Fikra Graphic Design Biennial 01 Index
Seibundo Shinkosha, 2019, IDEA386 2019.7