Geo—Design Budget Airlines

GEO—DESIGN: Budget Airlines, We Are All The Jet Set* is an exploration of low-fare airlines as a cultural and economic phenomenon. Operating on a business model that minimises operational costs, unbundles fares, reduces customer services, and decentralises routes, low-fare airlines have in the past 30 years shaped the world-wide aviation industry as we know it.

Nine design research projects explore how budget airlines impact our everyday life at many scales of observation — from corporate sovereignty to international boundaries, from small airports to global carbon credit market, from material commodities to digital services, from environmental impact to unsolved trials. Through data analysis, image research, performance, oral histories, speculation, personification and sound modelling, it is demonstrated how ‘cheap’ is not just a price but a way of looking at the world.

GEO—DESIGN: Budget Airlines, We Are All The Jet Set*, features work by Design Academy alumni Sergi Casero Nieto, Flora Lechner, Gundega Strauberga, Ieva Jakusa, Rhinestone Rodeo (Job Claassen and Ellen Pearson), Qiaochu Guo, Chongjin Chen, The Ironing Board (Marta Ríos and Miguel Parrrra), Raffaello73 (Fabio Salvadori, Federico Santarini) and Cinzia Bongino.

The exhibition is curated by Martina Muzi, and features graphic design and identity by Cinzia Bongino

*(Taxes, fees and charges apply)

TICKETS & PRACTICAL INFORMATION

GEO—DESIGN: Budget Airlines. opens on 9 October and runs through Dutch Design Week until 14 November 2021. During DDW, it is accessible with a DDW ticket only, you can buy them online here or via physical ticket offices. After DDW, the exhibition will remain on display with normal entry for the museum.

The museum’s COVID-19-related rules apply, to be found at https://www.vanabbemuseum.nl.

Entrance to the exhibition is on the backside of Van Abbemuseum at Stratumsedijk 2, 5611 ND Eindhoven.