touring exhibitions programme 2020 – 21
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Design Museum Touring Programme The programme was set up in 2002 with the aim of bringing design exhibitions to audiences around the UK and internationally. Since then, the museum has toured more than 120 exhibitions to 101 venues in 30 countries worldwide. The Design Museum’s touring exhibitions range in size from 150 to 1000 square metres and encompass all areas of design – architecture, fashion, graphics, product, digital and more.
About the Design Museum The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to architecture and design. Its work encompasses all elements of design, including fashion, product and graphic design. Since it opened its doors in 1989, the museum has displayed everything from an AK-47 to high heels designed by Christian Louboutin. It has staged over 100 exhibitions, welcomed over five million visitors and showcased the work of some of the world’s most celebrated designers and architects including Paul Smith, Zaha Hadid, Jonathan Ive, Miuccia Prada, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray and Dieter Rams. On 24 November 2016, the Design Museum relocated to Kensington, West London. Architect John Pawson converted the interior of a 1960s modernist 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 and significantly extend its learning programme.
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Future Exhibitions Prada. Front and Back Sneakers Unboxed Current Exhibitions Moving to Mars Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius NEW OLD: Designing for our Future Selves In the Making Hello, My Name is Paul Smith
23 Exhibition Catalogues 27 Terms and Conditions 28 Contacts
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future exhibitions
Prada. Front and Back CURATORS Deyan Sudjic is Director Emeritus at the Design Museum Adriënne Groen is Assistant Curator at the Design Museum EXHIBITION DESIGN Carmody Groarke GRAPHIC DESIGN Fernando Gutiérrez VENUES Design Museum, London 18 September 2020 - 17 January 2021 TOUR AVAILABILITY from Spring 2021 SPACE approx. 900 square metres
1. Prada, Womenswer SS20 Fashion Show 2. Prada Marfa, Elmgreen and Dragset, 2005
The exhibition will offer unprecedented insight into Prada’s creative approach, inspirations and landmark collaborations. With a future-facing approach, it will explore Prada’s transformation of the idea and practice of fashion, and the continuing evolution of a global enterprise. Different sections will reflect the idea of front and back, conveying both the surface of fashion as well as the creative and industrial infrastructure on which it depends. Miuccia Prada’s story is unique. Joining the family business in the mid-70s, she turned what was once a small leather-goods company into one of the most successful fashion houses in the world, transforming the landscape of style and culture in the process. With her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, she has changed the way that people dress, redefined how we understand luxury, explored new materials and technologies and invested passionately in art, design and architecture. She has made Prada the essence of modernity.
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Sneakers Unboxed CURATORS Shasti Lowton is Curator at the Design Museum EXHIBITION DESIGN Interesting Projects GRAPHIC DESIGN Studio LP VENUES Design Museum, London 6 May 2020 - 6 September 2020 TOUR AVAILABILITY from Autumn 2020 SPACE approx. 300 - 500 square metres
1. Photoshoot by Adam Ali 2. Air Max 97 MSCHF x INRI Jesus Shoes
Cult classics, limited edition silhouettes and rare colourways will go under the spotlight as the Design Museum steps into the world of sneakers for the first time. Sneaker design has revolutionised retail styles, taken hold of a subculture and sparked a phenomenal audience of ‘sneakerheads’ from all over the world. Divided into three chapters – Performance, Street Culture and Fashion – the exhibition will invite you behind the scenes and reveal the design process that has led to the world’s most innovative kicks, be that self-lacing, 3D printed, made from 100% recyclables or cushioned with air bubbles. Uncover the style icons and brand collaborations that have shaped the sneaker scene, examine the high-fashion reinvention of a streetwear staple and touch on the lucrative resale market that is currently valued at $2 billion. For the first time trend cycles are moving faster than the traditional speed of sneaker production. This exhibition will ask what the impact of this is on manufacturing technology, creatives and makers.
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current exhibitions
NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS
Moving to Mars CURATORS Andrew Nahum is Principal Curator of Technology and Engineering at the Science Museum, London Eleanor Watson is Touring Curator at the Design Museum Justin McGuirk is Chief Curator at the Design Museum EXHIBITION DESIGN All Things Studio GRAPHIC DESIGN Fabrique CATALOGUE 220 pages, 300 colour illustrations (see p. 21) VENUES Design Museum, London 18 October 2019 - 23 February 2020 Tekniska Museet, Stockholm 04 July 2020 - 07 March 2021 TOUR AVAILABILITY from Spring 2021 1. Exhibition view, Survival 2. Exhibition view, The Voyage 3. Exhibition view, Imagining Mars 4. Exhibition view, Survival 5. Exhibition view, Voyage 6. Exhibition view, On Mars Today
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SPACE approx. 900 square metres
Getting humans to Mars has become one of the great projects of our time. Unlike the Moon landings of the last space race, however, this ambition is not purely symbolic. Mars holds the potential of human settlement and the promise of life after Earth. Some of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, architects and engineers are dedicating themselves to conquering the next frontier. This exhibition explores the crucial role that design will play in this collective endeavour. From the capsules that need to keep dozens of passengers in harmony over a nine-month journey, to the habitats they will live in on Mars, and the terraforming of the landscape; every detail needs to be designed. This is falling to the traditional space agencies, such as NASA, to private entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and to architects such as Norman Foster. The exhibition presents the current state of design ingenuity, from shuttle environments to Martian homes, clothing and tools. Moving to Mars explores the appeal of the Red Planet and reveals a likely roadmap for the first manned missions. As well as technical and practical solutions, the exhibition examines how design can address some of the more social and anthropological aspects of what it means to become a star-faring, multiplanetary species. CURRENT EXHIBITIONS | 12
Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius CURATORS Alex Newson was Senior Curator at the Design Museum and is now Senior Curator at the V&A Museum of Childhood, London Hella Jongerius is a Dutch designer based in Berlin and founded the Jongeriuslab studio in 1993 EXHIBITION AND GRAPHIC DESIGN Jongeriuslab VENUES Design Museum, London 28 June – 24 September 2017 Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 9 June – 12 August 2018 Nationalmuseum, Stockholm 17 October 2019 – 9 February 2020 Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur 29 November 2020 – 23 May 2021 TOUR AVAILABILITY from Summer 2021 SPACE approx. 300 – 500 square metres 1. Exhibition view, silk, paper weaves and colour catchers 2. Exhibition view, woven textile piece 3. Exhibition view, woven textile piece 4. Exhibition view, coloured vases 5. Exhibition view, colour catchers and woven textile pieces 6. Exhibition view, colour catchers
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We see the world in colour, but rarely do we appreciate how it shapes what we see. In this unique exhibition, the acclaimed designer Hella Jongerius presents a reading of the world through colour. Drawing on years of research, she sets out to make us look deeper at the way colour behaves – on shapes and surfaces, in shadows and reflections. Through a series of phenomenological studies and experiences, the exhibition makes us question one of the most elemental aspects of design. The exhibition contains hundreds of dynamic elements, from textiles and porcelain tiles to what she calls ‘colour catchers’ and ‘3D colour wheels’, multi-faceted geometric mobiles that display the complex behaviour of light and movement on surfaces. Rich in sensory experiences and layered with cultural interpretation, this is an exhibition that inspires both design industry insiders and a broad audience drawn to the dynamics of colour in design, art and life. On tour at the Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen, Jongerius collaborated with artist Mathieu Meijers to select artworks from the museum’s permanent collection and create a dialogue between her research and the works of old master and contemporary artists such as Francis Picabia and Cornelis van Haarlem. CURRENT EXHIBITIONS | 14
NEW OLD: Designing for our Future Selves CURATOR Jeremy Myerson is Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design, RCA EXHIBITION DESIGN Plaid London GRAPHIC DESIGN LucienneRoberts+ CATALOGUE 176 pages, 100 colour illustrations (see p. 22) VENUES Design Museum, London 12 January – 19 February 2017 Łódź Design Festival, Poland 3 – 17 October 2017 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan 13 January – 22 April 2018 Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York 7 February – 23 May 2020 1. Future Facility, Amazin Apartment (design commission) 2. Sebastian Conran/ Consequential Robotics, MiRO Dog 3. Exhibition view (right), Alan Dye/NB Studio, Signs of the Time 4. Exhibition view, Yves Behar, Fuseproject and Superflex, Aura Power Suit (design commission) 5. PriestmanGood, Scooter for Life (design commission) 6. Exhibition view, Special Projects, Exchange (design commission)
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TOUR AVAILABILITY from Summer 2020
This exhibition looks at how design can help people lead fuller, healthier and more rewarding lives into old age, asking the question: how can designers meet the challenge of a rapidly ageing society? From robotic clothing to driverless cars, ‘NEW OLD’ rethinks design approaches to ageing. The exhibition is organised into six sections: Ageing, Identity, Home, Community, Working and Mobility, each featuring a special design commission by a leading designer or design team, creating new solutions for demographic change as well as addressing the challenges of ageing. With new projects by Yves Béhar/fuseproject, Konstantin Grcic, Future Facility, Special Projects, IDEO and Priestman Goode, alongside products, prototypes and outstanding examples of infrastructure and urban planning, ‘NEW OLD’ examines how innovation and design can reimagine how we live the later stages of our lives.
SPACE approx. 250 square metres
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In the Making CURATORS Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby are a duo of internationally acclaimed designers whose eponymous studio has been based in London since 1996 Margaret Cubbage is an independent curator and worked at the Design Museum from 2008 to 2018 EXHIBITION DESIGN Universal Design Studio GRAPHIC DESIGN Build VENUES Design Museum, London 22 January – 4 May 2014 Irish Design at Dublin Castle 29 December 2014 – 17 March 2015 The Wilson, Cheltenham 11 July – 20 September 2015 Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi 9 November 2017 – 11 February 2018 TOUR AVAILABILITY from Summer 2020 SPACE 200 – 400 square metres 1. Single piece of bent wood (Thonet Chair) 2. Straight horn (French Horn) 3. Exhibition view 4. Exhibition view
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Curated by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, ‘In the Making’ captures objects mid-manufacture and puts the aesthetic of the unfinished centre stage. Varying from a cricket bat to a MacBook, a surprising range of objects has been chosen by Barber and Osgerby to be exhibited in an unfinished state, celebrating the intriguing beauty of the making process and revealing the unexpected quality that everyday objects have before assuming their final, recognisable form. The exhibition provides a glimpse of the designers’ ongoing dialogue with manufacturing that is so distinctive to their practice. Throughout their careers, Barber and Osgerby have had a technical curiosity and fascination with the making process. The way in which things are created has had a profound influence on them and continually inspires their work. These partially-made objects give an insight into the design thinking that has driven this duo to such acclaimed success, including designing the London 2012 Olympic Torch, which went on to be awarded the Design Museum’s Design of the Year 2012. Their multidisciplinary approach challenges the boundaries of industrial design, architecture and art.
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VENUES Design Museum, London 9 March – 15 September 2013 Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium 30 January – 16 August 2015 The Lighthouse, Glasgow 21 January – 20 March 2016 National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 6 June – 18 July 2016 Ueno-Mori Royal Museum, Tokyo 26 July – 24 August 2016 Matsuzakaya Museum, Nagoya 10 September – 16 October 2016 Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei 17 June – 2 September 2017 Modern Art Museum (MAM), Shanghai 10 October 2017 – 7 January 2018 Today Art Museum, Beijing 8 June – 7 October 2018 Shenzhen Bay Art Centre 7 December 2018 – 15 April 2019 Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul 6 June – 25 August 2019 Nottingham Castle Trust 8 February - 5 September 2021 SPACE 600 – 1000 square metres AVAILABILITY from Autumn 2021
Hello, My Name is Paul Smith CURATOR Donna Loveday is an independent curator, writer and Course Leader for MA Curating Contemporary Design at the Design Museum and Kingston School of Art EXHIBITION DESIGN Richard Greenwood Partnership GRAPHIC DESIGN Aboud Creative CATALOGUE 272 pages, 200 colour illustrations (see p. 22)
In a career spanning over 40 years, Paul Smith has become one of Britain’s foremost designers. The Paul Smith brand is known for an unmistakable classic Englishness augmented with a colourful ‘twist’. The exhibition explores how Paul Smith’s unique and intuitive take on design, coupled with a deep understanding of the relationship between designer and retailer, have laid the foundations for the company’s lasting success. It charts the company’s development from Paul’s first shop in Nottingham to its now global scale. The exhibition, which has broken visitor attendance records, is presented through the different stages of design and production behind a catwalk collection, offering great insight into Paul Smith’s design and marketing process. It also looks to explore the passions of Paul himself, what drives him as a designer and the significant items, people and places that have inspired him during his extensive career.
1. Exhibition view, ‘The Collections’ 2. Exhibition view, MINI Cooper, designed exclusively for the exhibition 3. Exhibition view, ‘Paul’s Office’ 4. Paul Smith A/W 2018 campaign 5. Exhibition view, video installation, ‘Inside Paul’s Head’ 6. Paul Smith Shop off Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, 2005
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exhibition catalogues
RICK GUIDICE, CUTAWAY VIEW OF A BERNAL SPHERE, 1976
FEATURES One of the first books to explore the crucial role that design will play in the collective endeavour to travel to and inhabit Mars. A comprehensive overview of past and current developments in space travel and colonisation, from the evolution of the spacesuit to speculative habitats for living on Mars. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images, featuring rarely seen drawings, concepts and prototypes by the likes of Raymond Loewy, NASA, the European Space Agency, SpaceX, Lockheed Martin and Foster + Partners.
Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Beazley Designs of the Year 2019
Designs of our Time 10 Years of Designs of the Year
Edited by Eszter Steierhoffer and Justin McGuirk
Edited by Beatrice Galilee and Maria McLintock
Edited by the Design Museum
A provocative survey of the radical and futuristic visions of the home
Showcasing the most innovative and thought-provoking designs from 2019
A unique global survey of 840 designs that changed the world
November 2018 DM January 2019 worldwide 240 x 170mm 304pp 260 colour illustrations Softcover | Worldwide rights £29.95 | $49.95 978-1-872005-42-3
September 2019 176 x 116mm 240pp 144 colour illustrations Softcover | Worldwide rights £12.95 | $19.95 978-1-872005-44-7
December 2017 DM April 2019 worldwide 166 x 118mm 976pp 840 colour illustrations Softcover | Worldwide rights £25.00 | $45.00 978-1-872005-38-6
Ferrari: Under the Skin
NEW OLD: Designing for our Future Selves
Hello: My Name is Paul Smith Under the Skin
Edited by Andrew Nahum and Martin Derrick
Edited by Jeremy Meyerson
Contributions from Paul Smith and Deyan Sudjic
Covering 70 years of Ferrari design and Ferrari the legend
Exploring the potential for new design to enhance the experience of later life
Celebrating over forty years of this playful English fashion brand
Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet EDITORS Justin McGuirk is Chief Curator at the Design Museum Andrew Nahum is Principal Curator of Technology and Engineering at the Science Museum, London Eleanor Watson is Touring Curator at the Design Museum
October 2019 240 x 170mm 220pp 300 colour illustrations Hardcover | Worldwide rights £24.95 | $35.00 978-1-872005-46-1
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Getting humans to Mars has become one of the great challenges of our time. It will be an extraordinary technological feat, but also a feat of design. This is the first book dedicated to designing for the Red Planet. From life on a spacecraft to survival on Mars’ inhospitable surface, new forms of clothing, farming and architecture will be needed. This volume looks at the real work designers and architects are generating now – as well as more speculative proposals of what this future might look like. Some ask whether we should go to Mars at all, while others argue that the rigours of such a mission would force us to design a waste-free way of life. Illustrated with more than 300 images and featuring original essays by leading thinkers in their field, Moving to Mars includes projects by NASA, SpaceX and the European Space Agency, as well as new work by designers and architects including HASSELL, Konstantin Grcic, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and RÆBURN. It also includes an interview with the science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who addresses why speculative design is the ideal discipline for imagining the “material grammar” of a life on Mars.
November 2017 co-published with Phaidon Press 270 x 205mm 240pp 200 colour illustrations Hardcover | Worldwide rights £39.95 | €49.95 | $49.95 978-0-714875-18-7 CONTACT – PUBLISHING@DESIGNMUSEUM.ORG
January 2017 240 x 170mm 176pp 100 colour illustrations Softcover | Worldwide rights £15.00 978-1-872005-55-3
October 2013 (Japanese and Korean editions available) 280 x 240mm 272pp 200 colour illustrations Hardcover | Worldwide rights $65.00 978-0-847841-58-5 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES | 24
INTERIOR SHOT OF THE DESIGN MUSEUM, 2016
Terms and Conditions
Contact
Hire fee, on request, includes:
To find out more about any of these exhibitions and other tours available from 2020 onwards, please contact:
– Curation and exhibition concept – Tour management by Design Museum staff – Exhibits – Images and films – Exhibition text in English – 2D and 3D design concept – Selected display kit
Charlotte Bulté Acting Head of Touring Exhibitions charlotte.bulte@designmuseum.org 00 44 (0) 20 3862 5883 designmuseum.org/exhibitions/touring-exhibitions
Costs payable by the venue: – Hire fee, in instalments – Exhibition and graphic design adaptation – Share of transport and crating costs – Storage of empty crates – Nail-to-nail insurance – All costs relating to exhibition production – Installation and de-installation costs – Marketing
PICTURE CREDITS Every reasonable attempt has been made to identify owners of copyright. Errors and omissions notified to the museum will be corrected in subsequent editions. Cover, © Roel Van Tour; p.2, © Gravity Road; p.5, © Prada; p. 7, Adam Ali © pp. 9-10 NASA/JPLCaltech/MSSS; p. 11 (top), © Naaro Studio, (all others) © Ed Reeves; p. 12, © Ed Reeves; pp. 13-14, © Luke Hayes; p. 15, © Luke Hayes; p.13, (top) © Future Facility, (middle left) © Sebastian Conran Associates, (middle right, bottom left) © Luke Hayes, (bottom right) © PriestmanGoode / Adam Woodward; p. 16, © Luke Hayes; pp.17-18, © Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi; p.19, (top left) © MAM, Shanghai, (top right) © Paul Smith Ltd., (middle left, right) © Paul Smith Ltd., (bottom) © MAM, Shanghai; p.20, © Paul Smith Ltd and Anthony Crolla; pp. 21-22, © Rick Guidice; pp.23-24, © Design Museum Publishing; pp.25-26, © Gareth Gardner
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