Designer Maker User education resources
Designer Maker User education resources
Before your visit
Give your students a head-start on their visit to our permanent exhibition.
The Design Museum asked the public what they would nominate as ‘good design’. The Crowd Sourced Wall at the beginning of the Designer Maker User gallery is a collection of those nominations. Senior Curator Alex Newson asks what is ‘good design’ and what would you nominate?
The Designer Maker User exhibition finishes with a look at the way in which making has changed over the last 170 years. Assistant Curator Maria McLintock takes us through the evolution of the making process and explores the human cost of manufacturing.
Experience the life size model of the Frankfurt Kitchen in Designer Maker User. Margarete "Grete" Schütte-Lihotzky was an Austrian architect who used Fordism and Taylorism to pioneer the fitted kitchen.
During your Visit
Print the booklet double sided and hand them out to your class. Get the students to fold the sheet in half and half again, using the dotted line as a guide, to create a booklet. Pages 1-3 can be completed before or at the start of your visit. Pages 4-8 should be completed whilst in Designer Maker User. Once students have completed page 4 they should fold the booklet inside out to access pages 5-8.
This booklet is aimed at upper key stage 2 and key stage 3.
After your Visit
Get your students to create and curate their own museum in this post visit lesson plan.
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