THINKTANK
ThinkTank: The Future Designer
In 2008 the V&A launched a series of ThinkTanks on future-facing issues related to contemporary design and museum spaces. Leading designers and thinkers from across the UK and further afield are being brought together to share their points of view, helping the V&A to showcase, support and critically engage with creative design.
The ThinkTanks series will help define the future of how we collect, display and engage with designers and design practice. Topics in the series include the changing role of the designer, the evolving museum environment and architecture, the future object and engaging global audiences.
This first ThinkTank looks at The Future Designer.
View the four provocations below, and join in the debate.
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Welcome to the ThinkTank
Welcome to the ThinkTank: Future Designer session by Lauren Parker, the V&A's Head of Contemporary Programmes.
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Introduction: Jane Pavitt
Jane Pavitt is the University of Brighton Principal Research Fellow in Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum; a member of both the Research Centre at the University and the Research Department at the Museum, where she is normally based. Jane acted as Chair for The Future Designer ThinkTank.
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Provocation: The designer as collaborator
Jeremy Myerson is Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre and Professor of Design Studies at the Royal College of Art. Jeremy discusses the collaborative role of the future designer.
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Provocation: The designer as celebrity
Gareth Williams is Curator in the Department of Furniture, Fashion and Textiles at the V&A, specialising in Twentieth Century and contemporary furniture design. Gareth looks at the future designer as a celebrity.
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Provocation: The designer as accelerator
Daniel Charny is Curator at the Aram Gallery and Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art. He argues that the future designer will act as an accelerator by challenging paradigms and shifting typologies.
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Provocation: The designer as synthesiser
Kevin McCullagh is a director of Plan, a product strategy consultancy based in London. He puts the future designer's case forward as 'Synthesiser with attitude'.
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Resources & Links
A selection of links and a bibliograpy relevant to The Future Designer ThinkTank.