Design Museum Archives - identity https://identity.ae/tag/design-museum/ The Middle East's architecture, design, interiors + property magazine Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:29:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://identity.ae/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-id_fevicon_icon-32x32.png Design Museum Archives - identity https://identity.ae/tag/design-museum/ 32 32 Connected exhibition will showcase works by nine designers working remotely https://identity.ae/connected-exhibition-to-showcase-works-by-nine-designers-working-remotely/ https://identity.ae/connected-exhibition-to-showcase-works-by-nine-designers-working-remotely/#respond Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:29:36 +0000 https://identity.ae/?p=13248 Nine international designers have been challenged to create a table and seating that will suit new ways of working from  home while solely relying on digital communication. As part of an initiative by the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), Benchmark Furniture and the Design Museum, Connected is an experiment set out to explore how designers […]

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]]> Nine international designers have been challenged to create a table and seating that will suit new ways of working from  home while solely relying on digital communication.

As part of an initiative by the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), Benchmark Furniture and the Design Museum, Connected is an experiment set out to explore how designers and craftsmen adapt their working practices during lockdown.

The designers involved include Ini Archibong (Switzerland), Maria Bruun (Denmark), Jaime Hayon (Spain), Heatherwick Studio (UK), Sebastian Herkner (Germany), Maria Jeglinska- Adamczewska (Poland), Sabine Marcelis (Netherlands), Studiopepe (Italy) and Studio Swine (UK / Japan).

They will each also record their creative journeys to illustrate how they approached the brief and developed their thoughts, sketches and ideas during these challenging times.

The resulting pieces will be shown at the Design Museum in London as an installation called Connected once the museum re-opens to the public, celebrating the act of physically coming back together.

Connected exhibition

The project aims to challenge both the designers and craftsmen at Benchmark to work in innovative ways by relying solely on digital communication and video conferencing to bring the designers’ visions to life.

In an exclusive series of by Herman Miller, designers including Brian Alexander, Keiji Tekeuchi and Michael Anastassiades also revealed various pieces of advice about working from home and how it has impacted their creative process.

 

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]]> https://identity.ae/connected-exhibition-to-showcase-works-by-nine-designers-working-remotely/feed/ 0 David Adjaye: Making Memory https://identity.ae/david-adjaye-making-memory/ https://identity.ae/david-adjaye-making-memory/#respond Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:53:44 +0000 https://identity.ae/?p=7991 Examining the idea of how architecture and form are used as storytelling devices, Sir David Adjaye’s objective in “Making Memory” is as a provocation or a question to the public. The exhibition opens with a survey of monuments from the Acropolis of Athens (447 BC) to the 2018 Millicent Fawcett statue by Gillian Wearing in […]

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]]> Examining the idea of how architecture and form are used as storytelling devices, Sir David Adjaye’s objective in “Making Memory” is as a provocation or a question to the public. The exhibition opens with a survey of monuments from the Acropolis of Athens (447 BC) to the 2018 Millicent Fawcett statue by Gillian Wearing in London. It then presents seven projects by Adjaye, who is known for his preference of projects with a social agenda, which include the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, the Sclera Pavilion in the Southbank Centre, London, the Gwangju River Reading Room and the proposal for the Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr Memorial.

Commenting on the exhibition, Adjaye says; “The monument is no longer a representation, it is an experience of time and place that is available to everyone. Whether it is for a nation, a race, a community, or a person, it is really used as a device to talk about the many things facing people across the planet. Democratisation does not mean that monuments cease to be relevant; it requires the monument to be transformed, so that it has an inbuilt openness and can be approached and understood from many points of view.”

Need to Know: David Adaye: Making Memory is at the Design Museum, London until May 5 2019; www.designmuseum.org

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