![]() ![]() Several IKEA hacks have travelled to NAi in Rotterdam and Ars Electronica in Linz. During the Taiwan Design Week 2009 several Dutch IKEA hacks were shown alongside new hacks made by Taiwanese designers in Taipei City. It travelled to South Korea to be part of Design MADE - Manifesto for Annual Design Exhibition - in November 2008. Platform21 = Hacking Ikea was part of the festival 4 Weeks of FreeDesignDom (September 2008) in Amsterdam and showed an adjusted version of the exhibition during the Dutch Design Week 2008 in Eindhoven. GYNEA by Sander van Bussel - Photography Leo Veger GYNEA by Sander van Bussel - Photgraphy by Leo Veger Platform21 = Hacking IKEA showed the work of those professionals and amateurs and commissioned new work by makers to whom the practise of hacking is central. ![]() Therefore it is not surprising that numerous artists and designers as well as the general public, have a special relationship with IKEA. ![]() But it is also a cultural entity, an economic force and an icon of global change. IKEA is a very successful and consumer friendly multinational, with a large fan base all across the Western and Asian world. IKEA hacks – the appropriation, adaptation and transformation of standard IKEA products – are among the most noticeable expressions of this movement. Some do it for fun, others out of necessity, and still others out of a critical attitude toward mass production. In the process, they pay little or no attention to a product’s original function. Around the world, for a variety of personal motives, professional and nonprofessional designers are making individual alterations to off-the-shelf products. Hacking existing design is a recent phenomenon. ![]()
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