Tag: design museum

  • Design Museum: designs of the year 2018

    Design Museum: designs of the year 2018

    On Saturday, a group of 22 Design and Innovation students (and their friends and family) joined the Qualification team and two Associate Lecturers on a tour of the Design Museum’s permanent exhibition ‘Designer Maker User’ and the Beazley’s Designs of the Year 2018 exhibition. Andy, a U101 student, gives a good summary of the rundown […]

  • Design Museum: what is a good design?

    Design Museum: what is a good design?

    We did a little experiment. What if we organise a visit to the Design Museum (on a grey and rainy February weekend) and everyone from the Design and Innovation Qualification at the OU is invited to come. Who would come and join us? Twenty-five students, 2 tutors and 4 central academics from across the qualification […]

  • Design and Culture

    Design and Culture

    This week the Design Museum in London hosted a Design School Summit, “Design School and the Cultural Turn”, reflecting on the relationship between design schools and the cultural sector, and in particular, design museums. The event comprised a series of speakers from Europe and the USA questioning how curatorial practice should be affected and influenced […]