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Lesson Plan: Can you redesign an object to make it easier to use?

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Grant Douglas was sitting at home being fed cornflakes by his mum when the phone rang. His mum answered the phone and as her conversation went on and on Grant could see his cornflakes getting soggier ...

Sketchmob at the Design Museum

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Bring your favourite drawing materials and spend an evening sketching at the Design Museum.

Educators CPD: Design in Primary DT

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Explore how children can be empowered to use their creativity to reflect on the needs of others through user-centred design.

Lesson Plan: Designing for age

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With an increasingly ageing population, people are depending more and more on design to help them carry out everyday tasks that become more difficult with age. It may be that they need help lifting so...

Fonts on Foot tour

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Typography has a huge influence on our ability to process text, but it may also alter our understanding of its meaning. This tour explores the communication system adopted by the Museum that not only ...

Colour in Architecture and Interiors

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How and why do architects and designers use colour? Join a panel of high-profile practitioners to discuss what colour means to them and its role in their work.

Create and Make – February half term

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This February half term, create a community garden around a model tower block, in this special paper-craft activity created by Designer-In-Residence Hester Buck.

BSL Tour - Designs of the Year

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The Design Museum provides a British Sign Language Tour of Designs of the Year for deaf and hard of hearing visitors.

Lesson Plan: Design a handheld device for generating electricity

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In some countries such as Malawi and Zambia, people who live in rural areas don’t have access to electricity. Their homes are lit by homemade kerosene (also known as paraffin) lamps that are often mad...

BSL Tour - Designers in Residence: Migration

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The Design Museum provides a British Sign Language Tour of Designers in Residence for deaf and hard of hearing visitors.

BSL Tour - Collection Lab

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The Design Museum provides a British Sign Language Tour of Collection Lab for deaf and hard of hearing visitors.

BSL Tour - Life on Foot

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The Design Museum provides a British Sign Language Tour of Life on Foot for deaf and hard of hearing visitors.

BSL Tour - Cycle Revolution

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The Design Museum provides a British Sign Language Tour of Cycle Revolution for deaf and hard of hearing visitors. Please note, due to availability the museum will not be able to provide voiceover int...

Architecture Charrette

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Calling Architecture and Design students in Higher Education. A Charrette is an event where multidisciplinary teams of creative people compete to best interpret a design brief, with emphasis placed on...

Educators CPD: Welcome

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Road-test the new resources and facilities at the Design Museum, and explore the museum as a resource for your practice.

Robots, Coding and 3D Printing

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Embrace your inner geek this October half-term with digital workshops suitable for young people aged 12-16.

To celebrate the opening of the Moving to Mars exhibition, discover how 3D printing techn...

Beazley Designs of the Year - The Virtual Experience for Schools

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Buy the teacher pack for Beazley Designs of the Year to give your students virtual access to the exhibition. The pack includes a short highlights film, lesson plan, power point presentation and activi...

Buzzbike Tank

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Buzzbike are offering Londoners a FREE bike. Yours to take home and use 24/7. The installation in the Design Museum Tank runs from 1 - 14 June and includes bikes by Eley Kishimoto, Universal Everythin...

Municipal Landscapes: A Celebration

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Explore the design of Churchill Gardens Estate and the value of post-war social housing as a part of the urban environment.

Illuminating Connections

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Make and take home your own original lamp structure using everyday bolts and hinges.

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