Your Studio workshop descriptions

This workshop emulates the experimental processes and playful rigour of the professional design studio. It draws on creative stories and strategies inspired by the museum’s Designer Maker User exhibition, and supports students to develop key creativity and employability skills, including time management, teamwork and communication.

Students work together in a supportive, but fast-paced atmosphere to unpack problems and build a design brief

They develop ideas through analogue rapid prototyping using a wide assortment of materials chosen to capture the imagination and test functionality

In a culminating crit, students reflect on their process and consider how divergent thinking and playfulness can enhance the level of innovation, user-centredness and commercial viability of their designs.

This exclusive workshop offers Level 3 vocational learners the chance to work on a realistic brief with the Design Museum as their client, drawing on the institution, its exhibitions, services and users as a context for designing.

• Using a real exhibition design case study to inform and inspire their work, students conduct research into the design systems that make an exhibition experience (including display, learning, comfort, access, signage/ wayfinding).
• Students build their understanding of the different ways designers investigate problems ‘in situ’ (e.g. by observing and recording users/ visitors in exhibitions).
• Students work collaboratively in design teams each focussing on the a key design problem or system in relation to the exhibition in focus;
• Teams develop quick design proposals, representing these creatively in a digital format, which applies their ICT skills to communicate persuasively with their ‘client,’ the Design Museum