FABER and MODEM announce TRANSMAT: As-Built, the next edition of Design Signals on FABER's side, and a new collaborative project inviting artists, designers and architects to research across the construction and building materials industry in Romania and Hungary.
The programme takes its name from 'as-built drawings', a type of architectural and engineering drawing that documents the final constructed state of a building, including all changes made during the construction process. As-Built is concerned with what happens after a plan meets the realities of the construction and building materials industry — where design intent encounters policy, labour, procurement, urban planning, extraction, infrastructure, maintenance, and building codes.
Continuing Design Signals’ research into where design can intervene in large industrial systems, the programme is curated by Martina Muzi and Krisztián Gábor Török.
The resulting work will be presented at FABER, in Timișoara, in autumn 2027 and MODEM, in Debrecen, in spring 2028.
Project Overall Objective:
TRANSMAT uses contemporary cultural infrastructure, art and design methodologies, and academic research to transform knowledge into cultural artefacts to generate a better understanding of the cross-border region at the public level, but also to consolidate public trust and curiosity towards culture in general (art and design more specifically) and to empower and unite artists and designers at different career stages, performing across Europe.
Funding information:
Project: TRANSMAT — Translocal Matters: Socially Engaged Arts and Design on the Borderlands
Jems code: ROHU00265
Project Partners: MODEM Debrecen, FABER Timișoara
Total value of the project: 2.500.326,98 euro
Value of ERDF funds within the project: 1.999.911,51 euro
The project TRANSMAT — Translocal Matters: Socially Engaged Arts and Design on the Borderlands is co-financed by the European Union through the Interreg fund under the Interreg VI-A Romania–Hungary Programme.
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