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I am an author, educator, artist, designer, and consultant. I write about contemporary artistic practices, multi-sensory aesthetic experiences, participation in the museum, personal and organisational development, and the pursuit of happiness in everyday life in my creative non-fiction vignettes “the ones”.
At the end of the day, I am most interested in experiencing vastness, beauty, and tranquility, preferably combined with my passions for drawing birds, hiking in the alps, and looking at beautiful homes. I believe in the magic of shifts in perception and at the same time in the beauty of repetition.
Benjamin Adler, Meret Ernst, Dorothée King: Kleine Basler Designgeschichte (June 2026, Basel: CMV)
Design ist eine globale Angelegenheit. Es wird irgendwo entworfen, irgendwo gefertigt und ist dann überall erhältlich – und doch erleben wir Design stets vor Ort. Das Buch erzählt 24 Geschichten besonderer Designideen, die von Basel aus in der Welt Furore gemacht haben.
Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2026, Schweizer Residenz, Höhenblick 37, 60431 Frankfurt-Ginnheim
Begrüssung durch Generalkonsul Erik Jakob und Verlagsleiter Oliver Bolanz, Präsentation und Lesung mit der Autorin Dorothée King, Institutsleiterin an der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW und Iris Becher, Christoph Merian Verlag.
Die Veranstaltung findet im Jahr der World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 statt und rückt den bedeutenden Beitrag Basels zur Designgeschichte in den Fokus.
We live in a time when the volume of stimuli has become overwhelming. News, emails, social media, work demands, expectations, reports of crises, so many things seem to demand our immediate attention. We often feel we have to react right away: We reply to messages quickly, assuming we’ve freed up some time for ourselves, but the opposite happens. The adressee responds quickly as well. We write back and forth. Time passes. Stress levels rise. Nothing has been completed or resolved. Even in educational setting, we might think that reactionism and responseism are our go-to-solutions. But does that leave time and space for genuine encounter, for insight, for creativity, for sustainable change in the world?
Published, Nov 2024 as a story by the Wellcome collection:
https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/the-stuck-tampon
Words by Dorothée King artwork by Tracy Satchwill average reading time 7 minutes 20 November 2024