Lecture by Roman Aebersold, Head of Collections, Design Museum Zurich
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the leading Swiss Museum of design and visual communication. The Poster Collection is one of the most extensive archives of its kind in the world. Over 350’000 posters document Swiss and international poster history – including political, commercial and cultural posters – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Roman Aebersold presents the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and gives an introduction into the Votes & Voices exhibiton on display at Goethe Institute Hong Kong. Votes & Voices presents visual argumentation strategies and a pictorial rhetoric that have shaped Swiss campaign posters from 1918 to the present. As sensitive indicators of socio-political moods, and as valuable contemporary documents, the exhibits reflect not only the history of Swiss mentality but also global trends.
Roman Aebersold, (born in 1972) worked as a Product Manager in the Sports Retail Industry before he did his studies as an Industrial Designer. As a decorator, he worked for various Design- and Architecture offices and at the same time, he did research in the field of integration of users in the process of product design at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Since 2004 he has been leading the research activities in the department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Lucerne. After his promotion as vice-director of the School he was responsible for the Master’s Program, research and further education in Art and Design.
Since Fall 2012 Roman Aebersold has been employed by the Design Museum Zurich. In his function as Vice-Director he is responsible for the cooperation (with museums, enterprises, universities) and for the collection of the museum. He manages the travel exhibitions under others “Out to Sea? The Plastic Garbage Project”, an exhibition curated by the Design Museum Zurich on the plastic waste in the ocean, which has been shown in 27 places in Europe, Africa and Asia (including Hong Kong) since 2012.
As a visiting scholar, Roman Aebersold taught and did research at Parsons The New School for Design New York. He is the applicant of numerous research projects and author of various publications.
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