The second year of the project ran in the run-up to an exhibition on Willy Guhl under the label "Guhl School". In this context, the focus of several Design Kids Club editions and project lessons, the Josef sitzt! campaign and the Willy Guhl: jung und heute museum week was on the ideas and work of the Swiss design pioneer and their methodological potential.

Willy Guhl's design approach was multisensory. It was based on direct experimentation with the material and designing by making, of which the product developments with fiber cement that he carried out with his students are just one example.

Working with clay was at the heart of Keramik & Co. Pressing, kneading, shaping or building: The Design Kids put their hands on the malleable material and experimented with its specific qualities. What does it look like? How does it feel? What can you do with it? And what does the material do to you? Let your hands think!

First, the children wrote examples of how ceramics are used in their everyday lives on a shared card - the list ranged from roof tiles to toilet bowls.

A particular focus of the course was on the sense of touch and haptic perception. The children used their fingertips to search for interesting shapes, surfaces and textures around the museum building, made impressions with small clay cards and created a collection of negative shapes.

In three-dimensional design, they chose their own themes. Numerous small vessels, figurative and non-representational sculptures were created, whose surfaces were structured and colored in different ways. The course ended with a small presentation, which was celebrated with great appreciation by the invited friends, families and the museum team.

The knowledge and experience gained in the "GuhlSchool" was used to further sharpen the profile of design education at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. They were directly implemented in the development of the interactive station "Thinking" in the exhibition Willy Guhl - Thinking with Your Hands (9.12.2022 - 26.3.2023) and in the planning of the education program and will lead to the conception and the education program of a new permanent exhibition of the collections, which will open in the Toni-Areal in 2025 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary.

Im Rahmen des dreijährigen Outreachprojekts (April 2021 bis März 2024) öffnete sich das Museum für Gestaltung Zürich jugendgemässen Fragestellungen und Perspektiven. Im Fokus standen dabei das in der Sammlung bewahrte Kulturerbe, das Ausloten der spezifischen Potenziale von Designvermittlung sowie museologische und strategische Fragestellungen.