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In conversation with OMA

OMA’s Reinier de Graaf talks to the Design Museum chief curator Justin McGuirk about the new museum architecture, politics and OMA's installation in Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World.

What to expect?

Reinier de Graaf will discuss OMA’s work on the Commonwealth Institute and the adjacent Holland Green, the fallout from Brexit, and his life and work in a must-see conversation to mark the opening of the new Design Museum.

Reinier will also provide insight on“The Pan-European Living Room”, OMA’s (the architecture practice founded by Rem Koolhaas) new installation featured in the Design Museum’s opening exhibition, Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World.

In response to the recent Brexit vote, The Pan-European Living Room installation is furnished with a piece of design from each of the 28 EU member states. The installation proposes that our very notion of the domestic interior has been shaped by an ideal of European cooperation and trade. The centrepiece of the room is a vertical blind in the form of the OMA-designed barcode flag for the EU.

The Pan-European Living Room installation

By OMA

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the speakers

Reinier de Graaf

Reinier de Graaf is a partner at OMA and joined the firm in 1996. He is responsible for building and masterplanning projects throughout Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, including OMA’s work on the Commonwealth Institute and the adjacent Holland Green residential buildings. He also heads the work of OMA’s think tank AMO.

Justin McGuirk

Justin McGuirk is the chief curator at the Design Museum and the head of Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven. He has been the director of Strelka Press, the design critic of The Guardian, and the editor of Icon magazine.

related exhibition

Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World

Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World presents eleven new installations by some of the most innovative and thought-provoking designers and architects working today.

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