The second year of the project ran in the run-up to an exhibition on the Swiss design pioneer Willy Guhl under the label "GuhlSchool". In this context, the Limmat School and the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich collaborated to organize the Museum Week Willy Guhl: Young and Today.

Together with designers and teachers, the students investigated the extent to which Guhl's ideas and approaches can also be interesting and relevant for young people today. The projects ranged from material experiments and furniture construction to photographic field research in public spaces.

The museum's large lecture hall mutated into a lively creative laboratory for the kindergarten children. At six stations, lots of material was prepared for the youngsters to experiment with: they pulled, stapled, pinned, sewed, knotted, tied, folded, cut, soaked, glued, built and played.

Balls passed through cardboard tubes, flower pots became musical instruments, ice cream sticks flew through the air, wire cast shadows on the walls, adhesive foil was transformed into colored windows and even a fashion collection was designed. The focus was on the haptic experience - people thought with their hands.

The experience and knowledge 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 "Thinking" station in the exhibition Willy Guhl - Thinking with Your Hands (9 December 2022 - 26 March 2023) and in the planning of the education program and will lead to the conception of a new permanent exhibition of the collections, which will open on the occasion of the 150th anniversary in 2025 in the Toni-Areal.

Photos: Simon Zangger

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.