RADDAR Collec­tion – The Bath­room

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An archi­tect, urban plan­ner and design histor­ian, Jolanthe Kugler is chief curator and exhib­i­tion commis­sioner at mudac, co-director of the Raddar programme at mudac and a professor at the Politec­nico di Milano – Scuola di design in Milan. 

Launched by mudac – the Museum of Contem­por­ary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne – RADDAR is a series of texts dedic­ated to design research. RADDAR will appeal to anyone inter­ested in objects, spaces, archi­tec­ture, graph­ics and visual forms, includ­ing their repres­ent­a­tion, circu­la­tion, history, tech­nical evol­u­tion, signi­fic­ance and mater­ial make-up.  

Schol­arly and provoc­at­ive, poetic and disrupt­ive, RADDAR presents new inter­pret­a­tions of the defin­ing role of design in today’s culture. Outstand­ing as well as young and unex­pec­ted voices from all fields of design meet those from the social and cultural sciences, art, science, liter­at­ure and beyond. A space for dialogue, criti­cism, discus­sion, spec­u­la­tion and surprise, RADDAR aims to point its anten­nae at the vari­ous complex issues of design, reveal­ing the semantic, visual and aesthetic rich­ness of this field as well as its social, polit­ical and economic dimen­sions. 

The first two titles in the RADDAR collec­tion, The Kitchen Where func­tion meets pleas­ure and Bath­room From hygiene to well­ness, writ­ten by Jolanthe Kugler, explore the histor­ical and soci­etal dimen­sions of the emblem­atic objects in these two rooms. These texts are adap­ted from a series of lectures on the theme of the home held at mudac from Octo­ber to Decem­ber 2022.