Designers in residence
dal 11/9/2007 al 13/10/2007
Segnalato da
11/9/2007
Designers in residence
Design Museum, London
Sarah van Gameren, Chris O'Shea, Tomas Alonso, Richard Sweeney and Finn Magee. A new annual exhibition, in which emerging product and furniture designers are invited to transform areas of the museum with their work, it aims to provide a springboard into the design world.
Sarah van Gameren, Chris O'Shea, Tomas Alonso, Richard Sweeney and Finn Magee.
Designers in Residence launches at the Design Museum from 12 September to
14 October 2007, during the London Design Festival. A new annual exhibition, in
which emerging product and furniture designers are invited to transform areas of
the museum with their work, it aims to provide a springboard into the design world.
The 2007 Designers in Residence will be: Sarah van Gameren, Chris O’Shea,
Tomás Alonso, Richard Sweeney and Finn Magee.
Exploring issues of mass production, consumption and accidental aesthetics within
design, Sarah van Gameren’s Big Dipper, to be installed in the Riverside Hall,
mechanically creates 24 candle wax chandeliers by dipping strings of wick in
heated wax and allowing a frame to build up over a period of 12 hours, inviting the
viewer to witness the birth of a product. Interactive media designer Chris O’Shea
focuses on creating works that encourage new methods of play and collaboration,
challenging our perception of space and physical objects. For the exhibition he will
create an interactive installation that allows visitors to see into areas of the Design
Museum normally hidden from view.
Tomás Alonso will transform the Design
Museum Café with new furniture and his modular plant system, Home Greenroom.
As well as creating an interior eco-system, Alonso will give Café customers the
chance to use his Stamp cutlery, a unique recyclable aluminium design. Inspired by
complex geometries, Richard Sweeney uses simple materials to explore both the
handmade and machine manufactured multiple. In the Design Museum Tank,
Sweeney’s exquisite paper forms will become a series of dramatic lights by night.
Situated in the Design Museum’s front entrance, Finn Magee’s new Flat Life
project will recreate the atmosphere of a designer’s studio. The work, drawing from
the Design Museum’s collection, will question our interaction with images and
response to design classics.
Design Museum Director, Deyan Sudjic said “We have opened up the museum
to five very talented young designers and we are thrilled with the energy and
imagination they have brought us. This is a showcase that will celebrate the
potential of a range of very different designers at the start of their careers”.
Presenting experimental forms and original concepts combined with
unconventional techniques and sophisticated new technologies, Designers in
Residence will reveal the dynamism of a new generation of designers, and will
capture some of the prevailing themes in contemporary design culture.
Image (c) Sarah van Gameren
Design Museum
Shad Thames - London
OPENING: 10.00-17.45 Daily. Last Admission: 17.15
TICKETS: Adults £7; Students + Concessions £4; Free to Under 12s