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The Open Debate
Reflecting on the provocative theme for this year’s Designers in Residence, this debate brings together leading thinkers to explore the predominant trends influencing Open design.
What can I expect?
2016 marks the ninth year of the Design Museum’s Designers in Residence, which provides a platform to celebrate designers at an early stage in their career. This year’s selected designers are currently developing work in response to the theme ‘Open’.
Reflecting on the provocative theme for this year’s Designers in Residence, this debate brings together leading thinkers to explore the predominant trends influencing Open design. These include the increasing importance of open and collaborative design and manufacturing processes as well as the increasing prevalence of open design principles to empower communities and challenge pre-existing structures.
A timeline at Tent London will showcase the Designers in Residence alumni and their residency work.
Adrian Westaway's Lego Calendar
Booking information
Tickets can be booked directly through the London Design Fair.
Location: Old Truman Brewery - 27 Hanbury Street, London, E1 6QR
more about the speakers
Professor Daniel Charny (Chair)
Daniel Charny is director of the creative and cultural consultancy From Now On. He is best known as curator of the internationally acclaimed exhibition Power of Making at the V&A Museum and as co-founder of the social design initiative Fixperts. He is Professor of Design at Kingston University.
Joni Steiner
Joni is a qualified architect and designer with the YAYA shortlisted architecture and strategic design firm 00:/ (zero zero). Part of the TED Prize winning WikiHouse design team, he was Lead Designer for Bristol Urban Beach, offices for the Association of Photographers and the RIBA Award winning Manor Works enterprise & community centre in Sheffield.
Alice Casey
Alice is currently leading on a portfolio of work at Nesta looking at how the web is transforming communities and civic life. She has a particular interest in how people themselves are changing the society around them using new technology and new ways of organising, collaborating and connecting from the ground up.
Adrian Westaway
Adrian is an inventor, engineer and experience designer on a mission to make the human-technology interaction meaningful and delightful. He is a tutor and lecturer in Design & Innovation at Queen Mary University and Goldsmiths, University of London, and a visiting faculty member at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.
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