Friday Late Summer Camp: IDEA

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Friday 29 July
18.30–22.00

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 process, playfully examining the shift from the vision of the lone designer to collaborative design practice and personalised production. Join designers to workshop ideas, develop projects and create your own designs.

Friday Late IDEA focuses on the creative process, from the doodle to design activism, and projects that encourage the public to take urgent design issues in to their own hands.

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 this event.

FOOD & DRINK

Drinks Partner Bombay Sapphire will be serving cocktails infused with imagination from their specially designed Imagination Bar in the John Madejski Garden and classic Bombay Sapphire Cocktails in the Grand Entrance for the evening..

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

MUSIC

DJ Bring & Share
This is the original D-I-Y disco, where music of all genres is played, and anything goes! In the spirit of collaborative working, visitors have uploaded songs onto the group’s Facebook page and you’re invited to add requests on the night via Twitter (@bringandshare). DJs Rapture and Brett MAV spin the evening’s soundtrack based on 'Songs for a Summer Camp'.

Life in Film
John Madejski Garden
19.30-20.15
Having recently played at a variety of festivals around the UK, Life In Film performs live at the V&A. With an eclectic range of influences, enjoy this indie/pop/soul band in a rare acoustic set.

MIDI Karaoke
John Madejski Garden
20.30–21.30
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.
 

INSTALLATIONS

Footloose + Threadbare by Hendzel + Hunt
Grand Entrance & John Madejski Garden
18.30–21.50
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.

Mobile Museum Comes to the V&A
Grand Entrance
Submissions from 18.30 & Unveiling Ceremony at 20.00
Visit a museum within the Museum, with content submitted by select designers and you! Focusing on the theme ‘Friday’, designers have been invited to contribute to the Mobile Museum’s travelling and ever changing collection of objects. Mobile Museum ‘curators’ assess and arrange objects on-site so bring along your contributions for potential display. The Mobile Museum is project by Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s communication research centre based in Italy.

Rotting Compost Tea Bar by Something & Son
John Madejski Garden
18.30–21.30
Design collective Something & Son distributes tea in the John Madejski Garden. Made with water heated by veggie compost collected from the V&A Café, this mad scientist experiment is sure to taste good.  Sit and sip some tea, get inspired and doodle your ideas for alternative energy sources on the bar.

TALKS & LECTURES

Alex Rich & Jürg Lehni Illustrated Lectures and MIDI Karaoke
Morris Room, Café
19.15–20.00
Alex Rich and Jürg Lehni host a series of lectures (also in August and 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.

Roundtable Discussion
Art Studio, Sackler Centre
19.00–20.00
Two architects present their work to a panel of critics, commentators and pundits. Join in the debate on public engagement in architecture and try not to grill the presenters too hard!
 
The panel is comprised of: Maria Smith (Studio Weave); Christine  Murray (Architects' Journal); Cany Ash (Ash Sekula); Kat Davis (Fluid); Wendy Shillam (Shillam + Smith); Martyn Perks (Thinking Allowed); and Amin Taha (Amin Taha Architects).
Chaired by Austin Williams of Future Cities Project.

Speakers Corner
Roaming
18.30–21.30
Step up and vent your design frustrations or outline your most recent invention. You’ve got to find the man with the mic!

WORKSHOPS

MANIFEST! by The Decorators
Grand Entrance
18.30–21.45
Contribute ideas to a mass-authored Summer Camp design manifesto put together by the collective The Decorators. This installation begins with a display of the ‘First Things First’
manifesto (2000). You are invited to rearrange words to create a new message and share your ideas with other visitors.

Skills Swap
John Madejski Garden
18.30–19.30 & 20.15–21.30
Take the opportunity to share your unique skills with experts from the V&A and fellow Friday Late visitors. Sign up and swap your specialism, from serious design solutions to light hearted things only you know how to do! The skills on offer include range from how to hang a picture properly to how to write a love letter. All interests and expertise welcome!

Idea Clouds by Alon Meron
John Madejski Garden
18.30–21.30
Take inspiration from a large-scale mobile installation in the Garden and build your own carefully balanced objects for your home. The trick is to find the equilibrium using the fragile physics of balancing. Composed of light wooden beams that move on precise horizontal planes, Alon Meron’s ‘Idea Clouds’ towers over visitors.

Doodle Shop
Sackler Centre Reception
18.30–21.30
Have a chat with our select group of illustrators who are on hand to answer your questions and transform your ideas into magical creations. Take home your own personalised Summer Camp canvas tote bag from the evening.
Illustrators include: Eight Years brothers from Birmingham; Soju Tonaka, whose weird and wonderful creatures are bound to make you smile; and animator Julia Pott.

Improve-ise
Lunchroom 1, Sackler Centre
18.30–21.30
Nicolas Roope and Ben Tomlinson of creative design agency Poke call on visitors to come up with ideas focused around improvement. Have some fun improvising with inventions and designs. Discuss what the word ‘improve’ means and make an improvement to something (conceptually at least).

CONTACTS

Bombay Sapphire
www.bombaysapphire.com

Bring & Share
www.bringandshare.co.uk

Hendzel + Hunt
www.hendzelandhunt.com

Mobile Museum
www.themobilemuseum.net

Something & Son
www.somethingandson.com

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

Maria Smith (Studio Weave)
www.studioweave.com

Christine  Murray (Architects' Journal)
www.architectsjournal.co.uk

Cany Ash (Ash Sekula)
www.ashsak.com

Kat Davis (Fluid)
www.fluidoffice.com

Wendy Shillam (Shillam + Smith)
www.urbaneye.co.uk

Martyn Perks (Thinking Allowed)
www.martynperks.com

Amin Taha (Amin Taha Architects)
www.amintaha.co.uk

Future Cities Project
www.futurecities.org.uk

The Decorators
www.the-decorators.net

Alon Meron
www.alonmeron.com

Eight Years
www.eightyears.co.uk

Soju Tonaka
www.sojutanaka.com

Julia Pott
www.juliapott.com

Nicolas Roope
www.pokelondon.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.

Menu Wrap: Making Wood Look Good
The menu wrap has been specially designed by design collective Hendzel + Hunt.

COMING UP

FRIDAY LATE Summer Camp Continues …
DESIGN
Friday & Saturday, 26 & 27 August
MAKE
Friday, 30 September

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