Designers in Residence 2015 at the Design Museum - Call for Entries
Register/Submit Deadline: Monday, Mar 2, 201511:44 PMEDT
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The Design Museum has opened the call for entries for Designers in Residence 2015. Now in its eighth year, this prestigious programme celebrates new and emerging design talent through an annual residency which culminates in an exhibition at the Design Museum.
Each year, four designers are selected from an open call to take part in Designers in Residence; recent alumni include Giles Miller, Asif Khan, Bethan Laura Wood, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Chloe Meineck. 2014’s Residents were James Christian, Ilona Gaynor, Torsten Sherwood and Patrick Stevenson-Keating - the exhibition of their work can be seen at the Design Museum until 8 March 2015.
This year’s theme is ‘Migration’ and Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, comments: ‘The Design Museum’s move to the former Commonwealth Institute in Holland Park finally takes place in 2016. The museum is growing in both expertise and ambition as its staff, and the wider design community of which it is a part, begin to explore the complexities of a larger building and a new role.
This seems like a good background against which to explore the theme of migration, a word with a variety of meanings. It is striking that in America, for example, those who choose to move there are described as emigrants. Britain calls those same people immigrants - they are incomers. In the US, the emphasis appears to be on the act of leaving somewhere else, the implication perhaps being that surely just about anybody would be prepared to leave their home and make a move to the US if they could. Without either prefix, migration is a less loaded term. It also has a digital application. Data is made to migrate.
This year's Designers in Residence programme, then, invites designers to respond to this theme. It can be a reflection of objects or processes that imply movement, or transition, of shifting and cross-fertilising cultures, or of mobility.’
Nina Due, Head of Exhibitions, says: ‘We invite product, furniture, fashion, graphic, service, spatial or interaction designers as well as architects to explore the idea of migration in a process, a system, an object, an environment or an experience for their Designers in Residence 2015 proposal.’
Helen Charman, Director of Learning and Research, 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.’
2014 Resident Torsten Sherwood says: ‘Designers in Residence has given me a unique opportunity to pursue my own projects; giving time, money and exposure to work that might otherwise never have happened.’
The Designers in Residence programme provides young designers with time and space to research and consider new ways of developing their work. During the four months leading up to the exhibition, residents discuss their projects with established practitioners, industry experts and residency alumni, as well as with the Design Museum's legal, commercial, learning, development, and curatorial teams. Each resident is offered a bursary, commissioning budget and the production costs required to realise their new commission. 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.
Designers in Residence demonstrates the museum’s commitment to showcasing and supporting the next generation of design talent. It is open to all designers who have graduated from Higher Education within the last five years and who have been working professionally in some form of design or architecture practice for a minimum of one year.
Details of how to apply can be found at: http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/future-exhibitions/designers-in-residence-2015-migration/apply-for-designers-in-residence-2015
All entries must be received by 9am on Monday 2 March 2015.
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