Women & Type

Workspaces & Workshops from students

Flags represent the identities of communities. Flags are (over)large in size. Flags make a statement in demonstrations. Flags visualise protest.

A critical counterpart to the exhibition at the Museum Wiesbaden is provided by current typographical statements by young students of communication design at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, who are actively engaged in the typographical design of activist (protest) flags with feminist positions in typography. The twenty flags will be prominently displayed as an exhibition throughout the ground floor of the LUX pavilion at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, coinciding with Wiesbaden's ‘Call for Flags’. The LUX satellite station thus builds a bridge to Wiesbaden and provides insights into the young type design scene at the university.

Workspaces & workshops by students: Accompanying the two exhibitions (Museum Wiesbaden and LUX Mainz) are workshops by students: ongoing research and participatory activities are planned directly on site in the middle of the exhibition.

Organisers and project partners: The project is a collaboration between Museum Wiesbaden (Dr Peter Forster, curator 12th to 19th century / Susanne Hirschmann, project management), the Institut Designlabor Gutenberg (IDG)/Mainz University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Dr Petra Eisele / Prof. Dr Isabel Naegele, co-curators), Flávia Nalon, MA, and students of Communication Design at Mainz University of Applied Sciences.