Friday Late Summer Camp: DESIGN

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Friday & Saturday 26 & 27 August 2011

This summer, three Friday Lates come together for Summer Camp, a special season of events unpicking the design process. The visitor will be placed at the centre of the design world, playfully examining the shift from the vision of the lone designer to collaborative design practice and personalised production. Join designers to brainstorm ideas, develop projects and create your own designs.

Friday Late Design investigates the collective imagination of visitors, opening up the design practice from a closed off, single vision to group creativity and cooperative working. Create prototypes, engage with the redesign of failed projects, test your ingenuity and make your own music.

All events are free and places designated on a first come, first served basis, unless stipulated otherwise.
Filming and photography will be taking place at these events.

Please note locations and timings are subject to change.

Food & Drink

Drinks Partner Bombay Sapphire serves cocktails infused with imagination from their specially designed Imagination Bar and classic Bombay Sapphire Cocktails in the Grand Entrance for the evening (as well as in September).

Food and drinks are also available in the V&A Café.

Music

Juneau Projects Live Demonstration and Performance

Lecture Theatre
Friday 18.30–20.30 (workshop) & 20.30–21.30 (performance)

Join Juneau Projects in a showcase of homemade instruments. Have you built a synth, midi controller, cigar box guitar or other homemade noise maker? If so, get in on this performance! It doesn't matter how professional (or unprofessional) your creation is, the Birmingham-based team are looking for participants from all kinds of musical backgrounds to play with them in an ensemble of DIY noise (and music!).

Bobby Petersen’s Musical Chairs

Room 48a (Raphael)
Friday 18.30–21.30
Saturday 13.00–17.00

Musical Chairs is an interactive installation based upon the game with the same name. Each one of the chairs (inspired by Enzo Mari’s ‘Autoprogettazione Collection’ and built using locally sourced scrap wood) emits a sound or beat when you sit upon it. Work together to create an ever-changing musical piece.

MIDI Karaoke

Grand Entrance - Friday 19.30–21.50
The John Madejski Garden - Saturday 16.00–17.00

Join Alex Rich and Jürg Lehni for some fun after their lecture (Morris Room, 19.15–20.00) with a spot of MIDI Karaoke. MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) Karaoke was developed in the 1980s and has a charming retro, lo-fi feel to it. The chosen playlist consists of songs related to the themes of the lecture.

Dave Shulman's Gypsy Jazz

The John Madejski Garden
Saturday 14.00–15.00

Get your jig on with this live performance by Dave Shulman of the Gadjo Gypsies. The group blends gypsy sounds with rock 'n' roll and is sure to get you on your feet

Installations

Footloose + Threadbare by Hendzel + Hunt

Grand Entrance & John Madejski Garden
Friday 18.30–21.50 & Saturday 13.00–17.00

Hendzel + Hunt’s rough wood ‘Summer Camp’ installation welcomes visitors in the Grand Entrance. Made entirely from found and recycled wood (including the nuts and bolts!), this specially-made sculptural sign is the centrepiece of the three events. Also see the design duo at work in the John Madejski Garden, building another installation tonight.

Err by Jeremy Hutchison

Grand Entrance
Friday 18.30–21.50
Saturday 13.00–17.00

For this installation, Hutchison contacted factories across the world, asking for them to produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they made everyday. In doing so, the dysfunctional objects became artworks. Tonight these objects are displayed alongside a wealth of confused emails between the artist and various factory managers. For Hutchison, this project is about deliberate miscommunication: a moment of poetry within the relentless logic of mass-production.

Secret Skip Swimming Pool, by Oliver Bishop-Young

Pick up a ticket and make your way to Exhibition Road Entrance
Friday 18.30–21.00
Saturday 13.00–16.00

A unique opportunity to have a swim at the V&A! Take a dip in our secret skip swimming pool, located behind the scenes in the Museum. More details available on the night. Swimming costumes are required. Changing facilities are provided. All children must be accompanied by an adult, and visitors swim at their own risk.

Tickets are available from the Information Desk at the Grand Entrance from 18.30 on Friday and from 13.00 on Saturday. Two tickets (each admitting two visitors) will be issued for 15 minute time slots.

Workshops

Crazy Golf by Oliver Bishop Young

The John Madejski Garden
Friday 18.30–21.30
Saturday 13.00–16.30

Oliver Bishop Young has re-fashioned V&A transport crates to make this unique crazy golf course. Demonstrate your putting expertise with these wacky holes for a place on the Summer Camp leaderboard.

Seed Pill Workshop with Vanessa Harden

The John Madejski Garden
Friday 18.30–19.15 & 20.30–21.30
Saturday 13.00–14.00 & 15.15–16.30

Designer and guerrilla gardener Vanessa Harden demonstrates how to make seed pills, or depositories, for visitors to take away. Try your hand at planting these, either discretely or in your garden, and report back on the progress of the plants.

See: vandaguerrillagardening.wordpress.com

Garden Sheds

Rooms 32 & 33
Friday 18.30–21.30

Drop by for a session with V&A residents Postler-Ferguson, architects-in-training Lucy Dinnen and James Rai and furniture designer Sam Johnson, in our Summer Camp Garden Sheds. A crew of designers are on hand to help you workshop any weird and wonderful ideas.

DRESS UP/DOWNload Workshop with Jen Ballie

Sackler Centre Reception
Friday 18.30–19.30 & 20.00–21.30
Saturday 13.00–16.30

DRESS UP/DOWNload is an open source fashion concept, which invites you to be part of the design process: produce a series of prints using simple garments as a canvas. Designed and delivered by textile designer and Ph.D. student Jen Ballie, the co-design workshop allows you to create a design for a garment using collage techniques. Leave with a fashion illustration of your very own creation.

Failed Designs Screen-printing Workshop

Art Studio, Sackler Centre
Friday 18.30-21.30
Saturday 13.00-16.30

Turn failure into success in this scree-printing workshop with illustrators Mark Long and Mark Oliver. Choose from a selection of reinterpreted designs from the collection, and print one onto a special V&A Summer Camp tote bag to take away.

Speed Drawing Workshop with Alexa Galea

Room 24
Friday sessions on the half hour - Prize giving 21.30
Saturday sessions on the half hour - Prize giving 16.30

Lose your drawing inhibitions and shake up the sombre routine of drawing in museums by joining a speed drawing session. Work collaboratively with fellow visitors and illustrator Alexa Galea to create a drawing in ten minutes, taking inspiration from the V&A collections, impromptu models and a soundtrack for sketching. Add your drawing to the Summer Camp gallery and win a prize.

Patrick Tresset: Peter & Paul the Robots

Room 21a
Friday 18.30–21.50
Saturday 13.00–17.00

Paul and Peter are two robotic installations developed by Patrick Tresset. Have your portrait drawn by Paul or watch as Peter perpetually draws marks then erases them to pass time.

Speaker's Corner: Design Successes and Failures

Room 25
Friday 18.30-21.50
Saturday 13.00-17.00

Voice your views! Have you ever asked why headphone cables always tangle up, or why there isn't a universal phone charger? Or maybe you'd be lost without your little black dress. If so, join designers Beverly White and Kate Russell in our special Speaker's Corner, where you can speak your mind on design.

Talks

Alex Rich & Jürg Lehni Illustrated Lecture

Morris Room, Café
Friday 20.30-21.15

Alex Rich and Jürg Lehni host a series of lectures (also in September) investigating the evolution of ideas, ideologies and rules and structures for living. As they speak, key words are extracted and drawn on a plotter to create a brain map.

Guerrilla Garden the V&A!

Morris Room, Café
Friday 19.45–20.15
Saturday 14.15–14.45

Join designer Vanessa Harden as she introduces the art of guerrilla gardening and the various illicit tools created to help integrate gardening ‘assaults’ into everyday life. She discusses the design process behind her products as well as demonstrates new pieces inspired directly by the Clore Discovery Area at the V&A.

The Invention of Dr.NakaMats Film Screening

Room 47f
Friday 19.00 & 20.00 (film lasts approx 58 minutes)

Enjoy a special screening of Kaspar Astrup Schroder's film The Invention of Dr.NakaMats, showcasing an eccentric inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu. This hard-working octogenarian and man of science has over 3,000 patents to his name. He unveils designs for a love potion and a motor that runs on cosmic energy and heat that he claims NASA considered as a 'motor for a lunar car', among other outrageous inventions.

Contacts

Bombay Sapphire
www.bombaysapphire.com

Juneau Projects
www.juneauprojects.co.uk

Bobby Petersen
www.bobbypetersen.com

Alex Rich & Jürg Lehni
http://field-trip.org
http://lehni.org

Hendzel + Hunt
www.hendzelandhunt.com

Jeremy Hutchison
jeremyhutchison.com

Oliver Bishop Young
oliverbishopyoung.co.uk

Vanessa Harden
www.vanessaharden.com

Jen Ballie
http://considerateclothing.blogspot.com
http://textilefuturesphd.blogspot.com

Alexa Galea
www.alexagalea.com

Céline Condorelli
www.celinecondorelli.eu

Seating by Céline Condorelli
Summer Camp hosts a new edition of Céline Condorelli’s Revision– Part II, an adjustable setting for a temporary art school. This colourful bleacher-like seating was reconstructed for the Royal College of Art’s Department 21 outdoor platform (June 2011) by Sophie Demay with Kieren Jones.

Coming Up

FRIDAY LATE Summer Camp Continues …
MAKE
Friday, 30 September

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