CALL FOR ENTRIES:

Design Museum opens the call for entries for this year’s Designers in Residence. The annual exhibition, which celebrates new and emerging design talent, will open 10 September 2014 and feature the designers selected from this open call by a distinguished panel.

This year’s theme is disruption and Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, explains:?‘More than most, ‘disruptive’ is a term whose meaning is dependent on the context. Conventionally considered almost invariably a bad thing – difficult pupils, bad neighbours, ill-considered town planning - it is now the most sought after quality in a new product. It has completely overtaken the previously well regarded term sustainable, and its slightly more current synonym, resilient. Disruptive technologies are what made Apple’s comeback a decade ago so successful. Disruptive innovation interrupts established ways of thinking, diverges from traditional practices and proposes new, unexpected ideas. This year we are asking the Designers in Residence to reflect on and explore the multiple possibilities expressed by the concept of disruption and the disruptive.’

Nina Due, Head of Exhibitions, says:?‘We invite product, furniture, fashion, graphic, service, spatial or interaction designers alongside architects to explore the idea of disruption in a process, a system, an object, an environment or an experience for their Designers in Residence 2014 proposal.’
?Helen Charman, Head of Learning, says:?‘This is a great opportunity for designers in their early careers to discuss and present their work to a broad audience. Parallel to showing their commissioned work, the residencies will develop and deliver an engaging Public Programme during the course of the exhibition, opening up dialogues between exhibitor and the public, enabling ways in which access to process and ideas will be explored.’
?Now in its seventh year, the residency demonstrates the museum’s commitment to showcasing and supporting the next generation of design talent. The residency is open to all designers who have graduated from Higher Education within the last five years (in the academic year 2009/10 or more recently) and who have been working professionally (either paid or voluntarily) in some form of design or architecture practice for a minimum of one year.
?Designers can apply from today, 24 January, and the deadline for all applications is 5pm on 28 February. Applications can be made via: designmuseum.org

The Designers in Residence exhibition will be at the museum from?10 SEPTEMBER 2014 – 4 FEBRUARY 2015.

Last year’s Residents were Adam Nathaniel Furman, Eunhee Jo, Chloe Meineck and Thomas Thwaites.
About Designers in Residence:?The Design Museum continues to support the next generation of designers and?creatives with its Designers in Residence programme. This exhibition?showcases the work of young designers at the beginning of their careers:?recent alumni include Giles Miller, Asif Khan and Bethan Laura Wood. The?programme includes a series of events and talks, offering the designers the?opportunity to interact and engage with the public, whilst using this platform as?a test-bed for ideas, designs and innovations.
?About Design Museum:?The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to architecture?and design. The museum opened in 1989 and its work encompasses all?elements of design, including fashion, product and graphic design. The?museum has hosted exhibitions showcasing some of the most important?pioneers of design including, Paul Smith, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Ive, and?Dieter Rams. The Design Museum plans to relocate from its current home?at Shad Thames to the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington,?West London. The project is expected to be completed by?2015. Leading designer John Pawson will convert the interior of the?Commonwealth Institute building to create a new home for the?Design Museum giving it three times more space in which to show a wider?range of exhibitions, showcase its world class collection and extend its learning?programme.
?For more information, please visit:?designmuseum.org
 
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