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Društvo Pekinpah
Ob Žici 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Barbara Predan
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The Pekinpah Association for cultural, publishing and production activities was established in 2007 uniting professional designers, architects, linguists, musicians and dancers in order to facilitate their creation as well as to develop the related theoretical discourse. The association focuses on organising and producing exhibitions, lectures, congresses, and research into new media and information practices. Pekinpah is also the producer of the KINK dance group and the Silence music group.


In 2008 Pekinpah in collaboration with the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAD) (former Architecture Museum Ljubljana) organised a series of lectures about sustainable alternatives in design, hosting international lecturers. In 2009 they conceived an overview exhibition on the development of design at the Slovene company Iskra. The project marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of Iskra's internationally recognised telephone, the ETA 80, by the distinguished Slovene designer Davorin Savnik. In February 2010 the exhibition was presented through lecture An Overlooked Giant: Iskra, Non-aligned Design 1946-1990 by Barbara Predan at the Fourth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

The lecture series about visual communications theory On Information Design was prepared in collaboration with Petra Černe Oven and Pekinpah Association, starting in November 2009 at the Museum of Architecture and Design, and continuing throughout the year 2010.

Background

The main reason for establishing the association was to promote and carry out activities regarding design theory and theoretical work, which is often disregarded in Slovenia in comparison with practical work, as the latter is visually attractive and appealing to the professional, media and public. The lack of theoretical work is even more evident in design, as only a handful of studies on theory of design have been published in Slovenian language.

Publishing

Back to Design: an Anthological Survey of Design Theory in Slovenia was published in Slovenian language in summer 2007 by Pekinpah together with Litera Publishing House.

In November 2009, the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAD) and the Pekinpah Association released Sustainable Alternatives in Design: It's High Time We Start Losing Time, a book of lectures on design theory edited by Barbara Predan and Cvetka Požar. The book is available either in English or Slovenian language and features texts by Dieter Rams, Ezio Manzini, Jonathan Chapman, Clive Dilnot, Per Mollerup, and Victor Margolin.

The book ISKRA: Non-aligned Design 1946-1990 accompanied the exhibition with the same title in November 2009. A separate Slovenian edition was also published; both in collaboration with the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAD).

In September 2009 the association published the new album of the duet Silence, The Passion of the Cold, a limited edition handmade book containing two CDs, featuring music from or inspired by Slovene director Tomaž Pandur's plays Barroco and Kaligula.

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