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  • Lenka Veselá (Ed.)

    Synthetic Becoming

  • Stavros Stavrides, Penny Travlou (Eds)

    Housing as Commons. Housing Alternatives as Response to the…

  • Christiane Rösinger

    Was jetzt kommt. Christiane Rösinger. Ausgewählte Songtexte

  • Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara

    Dogma. Living and Working

  • Baburov, Djumenton, Gutnov, Kharitonova…

    The Ideal Communist City

  • Briana J. Smith

    Free Berlin. Art, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life

  • Hg. Oliver Clemens, Jesko Fezer, Kim…

    An Architektur Archive

  • Andri Gerber, Martin Tschanz (Hg)

    Sprengkraft Raum. Architektur um 1970 von Esther und Rudolf…

  • Christian Dehli, Andrea Grolimund

    Kazuo Shinohara: The Umbrella House Project

  • Boris Groys

    Becoming an Artwork

  • DeForrest Brown, Jr.

    Assembling a Black Counter Culture

  • George Papam, Phevos Kallitsis, David…

    The Beach Machine. Making and Operating the Mediterranean…

  • Yuma Shinohara, Andreas Ruby (Hg.)

    Make Do With Now: New directions in Japanese Architecture

  • Zara Pfeifer

    ICC Berlin. Zara Pfeifer

  • Florian Heilmeyer, Sandra Hofmeister (…

    Berlin. Urbane Architektur und Alltag seit 2009

  • CuratorLab (Ed.)

    Assuming Asymmetries. Conversations on Curating Public Art…

  • Michael Rawson

    The Nature of Tomorrow. A History of the Environmental…

  • András Szántó

    Imagining the Future Museum. 21 Dialogues with Architects

  • Hiuwai Chu, Meagan Down, Nkule Mabaso,…

    CLIMATE. Our Right to Breathe

  • Patricia Ribault

    Design, Gestaltung, Formatività

  • Martina Baum, Markus Vogl (Hg.)

    Täglich. Warum wir Öffentlichkeit, öffentlichen Raum und…

  • Stuart Hyatt, Janneane Blevins &…

    Stations. Listening to the Deep Earth

  • Anne Davidian, Laurent Jeanpierre (Eds.)

    What Makes an Assembly? Stories, Experiments, and Inquiries

  • Ingo Offermanns (Ed.) Dokho Shin &…

    Graphic Design Is (...) Not Innocent: Scrutinizing Visual…

  • Silke Langenberg (Hg.)

    Upgrade: Making Things Better

  • Christiane Sauer, Mareike Stoll, Ebba…

    Architectures of Weaving

  • Wilfried Wang (Hg.)

    On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism

  • Christian Sander

    Claude Parent, Paul Virilio - Architecture Principe. Formen…

  • Marie-France Rafael

    Passing Images. Art in the Post-Digital Age

  • Mohsen Mostafavi (ed)

    Manfredo Tafuri. Modern Architecture in Japan

  • Material Cultures

    Material Cultures: Material Reform. Building for a Post-…

  • Leonhard Laupichler & Sophia…

    New Aesthetic 3. A Collection of Experimental and…

  • Sven Lütticken

    Art and Autonomy. A Critical Reader

  • Christian Brox (Brox+1)

    BERLIN POSSIBILITY. Rave in Ruinen. Clubkultur 1990 bis…

  • Florian Strob (Hg.)

    Architect of Letters. Reading Hilberseimer

  • Wolfgang Thöner, Florian Strob, Andreas…

    Linke Waffe Kunst. Die Kommunistische Studentenfraktion am…

  • bell hooks

    Dazugehören. Über eine Kultur der Verortung

  • Florian Idenburg, LeeAnn Suen,…

    The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work

  • Peter Kiefer, Michael Zwenzner (Hg.)

    Exhibiting SoundArt

  • Jesko Fezer

    Umstrittene Methoden. Architekturdiskurse der…

  • Angelika Juppien, Richard Zemp,…

    Atlas des Dazwischenwohnens. Wohnbedürfnisse jenseits der…

  • Joerg Franzbecker, Naomi Hennig,…

    X Properties. Berliner Hefte zu Geschichte und Gegenwart…

  • Lauren Berlant

    On the Inconvenience of Other People

  • Stefano Harney, Fred Moten

    Allseits unvollkommen. Plantokratie und schwarzes Studium

  • Lucius Burckhardt

    Gerade noch gutgegangen. Fünf Jahrzehnte Planungskritik

  • Vittoria Pavesi (Hg)

    The Missing Planet. Visions and Re-Visions of Soviet Times

  • Gottfried Schnödl, Florian Sprenger

    Uexkülls Umgebungen. Umweltlehre und rechtes Denken

  • Gottfried Schnödl, Florian Sprenger

    Uexküll's Surroundings. Umwelt Theory and Right-Wing…

  • Charles L. Davis II

    Building Character.The Racial Politics of Modern…

  • Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman

    Spatializing Justice. Building Blocks

  • Jacopo Galimberti

    Images of Class. Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (…

  • Frida Grahn (Hg.)

    Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes. Portraits of an Architect

  • Dagmar Pelger

    Spatial Commons. Zur Vergemeinschaftung urbaner Räume

  • Michael Franz, Fabian Ginsberg (Hg.)

    Strategien der Aufstandsbekämpfung. Kunst

  • David Sim

    Sanfte Stadt. Planungsideen für den urbanen Alltag

  • Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck

    LAVA Laboratory for Visionary Architecture. What If

  • Hannah Black

    Tuesday or September or the End

  • Adrienne Buller, Mathew Lawrence

    Owning the Future. Power and Property in the Age of Crisis

  • Sianne Ngai

    Das Niedliche und der Gimmick. Zwei ästhetische Kategorien

  • Mathias Denecke, Holger Kuhn, Milan…

    Liquidity, Flows, Circulation. The Cultural Logic of…

  • Bernard Fibicher (Hg)

    Resistance Anew: Artworks, Culture, & Democracy (…

  • Reto Geiser, Michael Kubo (Hg)

    Futures of the Architectural Exhibition.

  • Institute for Postnatural Studies

    Compost Reader

  • Benjamin Bratton

    Die Realität schlägt zurück. Politik für eine…

  • Rolf Lindner

    In einer Welt von Fremden. Eine Anthropolgie der Stadt

  • Lorenzo Fabian & Ludovico Centis

    The lake of Venice. A scenario for Venice and its lagoon

  • Peter Osborne

    Crisis as Form

  • Leslie Kern

    Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

  • Arch+ Zeitschrift für Architektur und…

    Arch+ 249. Learning Spaces

  • Ergül Cengiz, Burcu Dogramaci, Philipp…

    Exzentrische 80er: Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen,…

  • Omar Kasmani, Matthias Lüthjohann,…

    Nothing Personal?! Essays on Affect, Gender and Queerness

  • Sinthujan Varatharajah, Hilal Moshtari

    Englisch in Berlin. English in Berlin

  • Ina Blom

    Houses to Die In. And Other Essays on Art

  • Erik Spiekermann

    Stop Stealing Sheep & Find out how type works. 4th…

  • Luka Holmegaard

    Look

  • IDEA Magazine

    IDEA 399. In the Design Field, Today: Thought and Practice…

  • Verena von Beckerath, Barbara Schönig (…

    Drei Zimmer, Küche, Diele, Bad. Eine Wohnung mit Optionen

  • Tresor

    Tresor: True Stories: The Early Years

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    Berliner Hefte zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der Stadt #9. Am…

  • Philippine Hoegen (Ed.)

    In these circumstances. On collaboration, perfomativity,…

  • Emanuele Coccia

    Das Zuhause. Philosophie eines scheinbar vertrauten Ortes

  • Jeanne Gerrity, Anthony Huberman (Eds.)

    What happens between the knots? A Series of Open Questions…

  • Beatrice von Bismarck

    The Curatorial Condition

  • Dimitra Kondylatou, Milica Ivic, David…

    Architectures of Healing. Cure through Sleep, Touch, and…

  • Warren Neidich (Ed)

    An Activist Neuroaesthetics Reader

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    The ArchDaily Guide to Good Architecture. The Now and How…

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    Provocations Against Perfectionism: The Architecture of…

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    Press & Fold #2: "Resistance" (Notes on…

  • François Bonnet, Bartolomé Sanson (eds.)

    Spectres III. Ghosts in the Machine / Fantômes dans la…

  • Jack Clarke & Sami Hammana (Hg)

    The Geofinancial Lexicon

  • Kerstin Honeit, Fiona McGovern (Hg.)

    Kerstin Honeit. Voice Works Voice Strikes

  • Claudia Rankine

    On Whiteness. The Racial Imaginary Institute

  • Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen (Hg)

    Wie Vergesellschaftung gelingt. Zum Stand der Debatte

  • Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán,…

    Radical Pedagogies

  • Anouchka Grose, Robert Brewer Young

    Uneasy Listening. Notes on Hearing & Being Heard

  • Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

    Huts, Temples, Castles

  • Paulo Moreira (Ed.)

    Critical Neighbourhoods. The Architecture of Contested…

  • Muñoz Sanz, V., Thomidou, A., eds.

    Roadside Picnics: Encounters with the Uncanny

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. 


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