PROJECTS

PLEASANT PLACE X MACGUFFIN

As a follow-up to The Log, MacGuffin and platform Pleasant Place organize a field club on the design of the nursery. What are the alternatives to monoculture and the economies of scale?

CAIRO ARCHIVES
مجلة ماكغافين

The Cairo workshop Il7arf (the letter) investigated archives of vernacular typography in Egypt. The results are showcased in the publication Cairo Archives.

ROBIDA X MACGUFFIN

Can a magazine, whose main goal is to be distributed, also be situated? In the summer of 2024, MacGuffin joined Robida in Topolo, Italy, to explore ‘Placeness’ in publishing.

ARCHIEF CAIRO X MACGUFFIN MAGAZINE

Coinciding with The Letter edition, Archief Cairo and MacGuffin organised a design studio in Egypt. It brought together a diverse group of designers, and writers, that went in search of the empowerment of Arabic letters.

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL FOR THE CITY X MACGUFFIN

In 2023, MacGuffin and the Independent School for the City organized a field club to two projects with recycled walls: Louis le Roy’s 'Ecokathedraal' in Mildam and Krijn Giezen’s botanical sound barrier in Rhoon, the Netherlands.

FRAMER FRAMED X MACGUFFIN

Framer Framed, a platform for visual culture and critical theory in Amsterdam, hosted the launch of MacGuffin's podcast CHAINS with an evening dedicated to pawnshops in popular culture.

VIDEO SOUND ART FESTIVAL X MACGUFFIN

The 12th edition of the Video Art Sound Festival in Milan, Italy, was revolving around 'The Life of Things'. MacGuffin joined the festival for the international launch of its podcast CHAINS.

RÖHSSKA MUSEUM X MACGUFFIN

The exhibition Migration, co-curated with the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, showed that the transformative impact of migration is not reserved to modern times, but has been a shaping factor in design and crafts since its earliest days.

DESIGN MUSEUM GENT X MACGUFFIN

Featuring exceptional pieces that MacGuffin selected from the collection of the Design Museum Gent, the exhibition The Desk showed the evolution of writing furniture: from wandering nomad to prestigious showpiece, from civic icon to CEO cockpit and from efficient factory to the centre of our domestic life.

DISARMING DESIGN FROM PALESTINE X MACGUFFIN

In a 2020 field club, MacGuffin teamed up with emerging designers from Palestine and filmmaker Alexandre Humbert to investigate the production, use and meaning of rugs in Palestine.

XML ARCHITECTS X MACGUFFIN

In the industry of manufacturing public opinion in 24-hour news cycles, the talk show is the engine room and the talk show desk the engine block. Together with MU Eindhoven and XML architects, MacGuffin explored what constitutes the space of the talk show.

ALEXANDRE HUMBERT X MACGUFFIN

In collaboration with MacGuffin and Alexandre Humbert, students from the Design Academy Eindhoven produced a collection of films, capturing rugs as spaces of illusion.

GUANGZHOU TRIENNIAL X MACGUFFIN

To highlight unacknowledged African immigrants in China, MacGuffin joined forces with Guangdong students to collect objects that represent Chinese and African cultures in Guangzhou.

ECAL X MACGUFFIN

Can a magazine be a design school? Or a design school a magazine? ECAL Product Design students used MacGuffin’s editorial model as a methodology to study the use of everyday things.

HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT X MACGUFFIN

Inspired by Orhan Pamuk’s Modest Manifesto for a Museum, in which the writer makes the case for a museum that centers on everyday life objects, the exhibition Finders Keepers explored stories of collectors and their relationships to things.

ATELIER CLERICI X MACGUFFIN

The alluring life of The Sink was celebrated in the Palazzo Clerici in Milan with an exhibition of related items chosen by a select group of sink aficionados.