/ A pop-up of the Berlin bookshop do you read me?! features magazines and books in and beyond the fields of art, design, architecture, photography, and fashion, as well as a selection of rare books cocurated with the Swiss art book publisher Kodoji Press.

June Basel/ do you read me?!

Design Talks
The Design Talks program features dynamic discussions that offer informed perspectives on producing, exhibiting, and collecting design today.
June 12, 10am: Art as an Agent for Change: Porky Hefer's ENDANGERED Collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
Using artist Porky Hefer’s compelling sculptural seating pods as an example, panelists discuss how art, design, and conservation perspectives can be powerfully integrated. Participants: Porky Hefer, Designer; Trevyn McGowan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Guild Group; Rodman Primack, Chief Creative Officer, Design Miami/; Lisa Schiff, Founder, SFA Advisory; Terry Tamminen, Chief Executive Officer, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

June 12, 11:30am: Loal Intelligence, Universal Applications
Drawing on the legacy of Victor Papanek and James Hennessey’s book Nomadic Furniture, this panel explores architectural modularity and shared knowledge taking Atelier Luma’s pavilion as a case study to reflect on the meaning of producing locally in a global context. Participants: Mustapha Bouhayati, Chief Executive Officer, LUMA Arles; Amelie Klein, Curator, Vitra Design

Museum; Lukas Wegwerth, Designer

June 12, 3pm: Documenting Time and Good Design
François Halard, curator of Design at Large 2018, sits down with Chief Creative Officer of Design Miami/, Rodman Primack, to discuss how time is a constant element in his practice and how it also influences design and architecture at large. 

June 12, 5pm: Craftsmanship 2.0 in Collectible Design: Between Innovation and Tradition
Despite unprecedented technological advancements in the last twenty years, the design world has seen a return to craftsmanship with an emphasis on the handmade, elevating collectible design as a category of increasing potential in the art market. Participants: Emma Crichton-Miller, Journalist and Writer focused on art and design; Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, Founders, Studio Drift; Loïc Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail, Founders, Carpenters Workshop Gallery; Pierre Yovanovitch, Founder/Principal of Pierre Yovanovitch Architecture d’Interieur

June 13, 10:30-11:30am: Film Screening.
11:30am-12:00pm Panel Discussion: R & Company and MUSE present SuperDesign: Italian Radical Design 1965-1975

SuperDesign retraces the history of the Italian Radical Design movement that in the 1960s coincided with a wave of political tension and put Italy on the map as a global focus for design. Participants: Franco Audrito, Architect and Founder of Studio65; Maria Cristina Didero, Independent Design Curator and Writer; Evan Snyderman, Co-founder, R & Company

June 13, 3pm: Swarovski Presents a Discussion on Smart Living
Deyan Sudjic moderates a discussion with the winners of the Swarovski Designers of the Future Award about their priorities, influences, inspirations, and challenges when creating new work based on the theme of “smart living.” Participants: Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London; Frank Kolkman, Experimental Dutch Designer; Study O Portable, Research Based Dutch-Japanese Practice; Yosuke Ushigome, Creative Japanese Technologist,

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June 13, 5pm: Women Design
In the current era of the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements, women designers are still outnumbered by their male counterparts. In celebration of the launch of her book Women Design: Pioneers in Architecture, Industrial, Graphic and Digital Design from the Twentieth Century to the Present Day, Libby Sellers addresses this imbalance. Participants: Libby Sellers, Design Curator, Writer and Consultant; Betil Dagdelen, Artist / Designer; Marianne Goebl, Managing Director Artek; Nina Yashar, Gallerist and Collector