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Design Museum Consultation Invite

The Design Museum is planning to move to the Exhibition Hall of the former Commonwealth Institute complex in 2014. Internal redesign of the building will be undertaken by John Pawson. From November, the site will close ready for its transformation into the new Design Museum, so this will be one of the very last opportunities to see the original 1962 interior.

As part of this move,the Museum is organising a discussion forum for HE design students, and would like to talk to HE design students from a range of disciplines – including architecture. Design students with dyslexia are especially welcome to participate.

The consultation will begin with a private tour of the former Commonwealth Institute and a discussion of plans for the site, then move to a nearby venue for tea and in-depth discussion of how the museum can work best for architecture students in its future home. It is expected the consultation will last for two hours maximum and that approximately twelve students will participate.

The Design Musem are particularly interested in consulting with design students with dyslexia because the Museum currently has no specialist support in place for visitors with dyslexia. We would like to find out more about what we could do to make the museum as it is now and the new Design Museum on Kensington High Street more welcoming for visitors with dyslexia.

This consultation is one event within a programme which has included Kensington and Chelsea residents, school teachers, young people, disabled visitors and professional designers. Each participating student will receive £15 in high street shopping vouchers and free tickets to the Design Museum to thank them for their time.

Places for this event are limited and must be booked.

 

To book your place please contact 

Sara Ayres | Audiences and Participation Officer 

email : sara@designmuseum.org 

 

One week left to VENT

With a week left to enter the VENT competition, ZAP Architecture would like to announce the judges of this prestigious student competition. ZAP are calling for students and young graduates to VENT how they feel about the cost of their education; through drawing, montage, photography, visit www.zaparchitecture.com for more details.

The team of judges will include the winner of the 2010 Young Architect of the Year Award, Christopher Lee. Founding Principal at Serie Architecture, Lee is also the Director of the Architectural Association Projective Cities Programme and a design critic at Harvard.

Also judging will be Paola Boffo, Associate at Ellis Williams Architects. Highly active in the cultural debate for better architecture which can improve the environment and society, Boffo is also the Chair of RIBA London.

Educated at Cambridge, and the RCA, and now Buildings Editor at Building Design Magazine, VENT judge Oliver Wainwright is an architectural writer, critic and a co-founder of Studio Superniche.

They will be joined by celebrated British sculptor Peter Randall-Page, who has gained an international reputation during the past 25 years through his sculpture, drawings and prints.

He is represented in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery and British Museum. Randall-Page created the enormous granite sculpture ‘Seed’ for the Eden Project in Cornwall, which influenced the design of the building.

VENT entries will be shown at the Pavilion of Protest exhibition, exploring the rising cost of architectural education, which runs October 25th- November 15th at the RIBA’s Florence Hall, 66 Portland Place, London, and a selection will be published in BD.

The judges will be at the official opening of the exhibition on the 28th October to award the prizes to the competition winners.

 

 



more news from ZAP on the 'Pavilion of Protest'.

Calling talented Architecture students...?

The news is good. We have secured the majestic Florence Hall at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London for a 6 week exhibition kicking off in October. We have secured a team of highly skilled master’s students to help design and build the centrepiece ‘pavilion of protest’ manifested from metaphysical discontent at the exclusivity and hardship associated with studying architecture.

 

 

ZAP are looking for artwork rather than dry architectural drawings but can be as abstract/ montagey / line weighty / Texty as you want. The point being they’re all created by architecture students about how they feel about architectural education (can be the design of a ‘pavilion of protest’ or someone ‘drawing at a drawing board’ or else an oil painting of a very sad / happy face :( up to you). The deadline is 30th August 2011, so plenty of time to do a great piece. We have been approached by many passionate UK students offering to contribute so we feel a competition is the best arena for this exhibition, to both maximise the standard exhibited and also generate publicity. The climax will be the opening night of the exhibition with a 6 week viewing and the publicity generated will reach the architectural press. We are currently in talks with publishers about publishing the selected works in a ‘compendium of architectural defiance’.

More info including the details of how to apply can be found at the ZAParchitecture website, click here....