{"id":1269,"date":"2018-07-10T19:59:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/design\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2018-07-13T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:31:41","slug":"end_of_year_show_2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/design\/end_of_year_show_2018\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Year 2018 exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creating an exhibition of Design and Innovation undergraduate students\u2019 work has been one of the most rewarding experiences I had for a while.<\/p>\n

We called for contributions to an End of Year design exhibition. Having an \u2018Annual show\u2019 has a long tradition in other design schools, but we never had one at the OU.<\/p>\n

This year we dared our first ever exhibition and received an amazing response from our students. From the 45 posters submitted, a panel of students and academics selected 35 to be shown in an exhibition on campus.<\/p>\n

We invited students to curate the exhibition. Claire Lambert (T217), Amanda Jones (T217), Toby Lenehan (T317) and Ian Rees (T317) – below – took on this challenging, but as they have said, rewarding task. Dawn Correia, an AL and experienced exhibition designer supported the students to deliver an excellent result.<\/p>\n

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Around 30 guests joined us when the Dean of STEM Jose Frazer opened the exhibition. We highlighted the winning designs, Gail Everett (U101) with the board game of \u2018Vicars and Tarts\u2019, Daniel Stuart (T317) with the \u2018Send me to sleep cot\u2019, Claire Edgar with her poster campaign \u2018Most waste has a second chance, your ocean doesn\u2019t\u2019 and a special commendation for Rebecca McFleat (T217) \u2018MIIX\u2019 educational toy.<\/p>\n

Many visitors came up congratulating us on the exhibition. They have been very impressed with the quality of the students\u2019 work.<\/p>\n

A comment from Busayawan Lam our external examiner for the qualification stuck in my mind. OU students\u2019 work is different from other design schools. Our students\u2019 brilliant ideas do not hide behind fancy graphics or sleek models of designs. They simply communicate great thinking. Design @ OU is about well thought through and communicated ideas that convince because they are good ideas, not because they look hip or flashy.<\/p>\n

If you have missed the exhibition, you can view the students work online: https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/design\/learning-teaching\/annual-show-2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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