Learning In Conversation
On Exhibition Design with Sam Jacob Studio
Join designer Sam Jacob and Assistant Curator Tiya Dahyabhai to unpack the design and build process and share behind-the-scenes stories of making Barbie®: The Exhibition.
What to expect
This occasional series of events offers a glimpse into how the Design Museum exhibitions come together: designers, makers and curators discuss how curatorial narratives are translated into spatial arrangements and immersive experiences.
Designer Sam Jacob meets Assistant Curator Tiya Dahyabhai to reflect on the making of Barbie®: The Exhibition – from the brief writing to the research processes, intentions, iterations, innovations and more.
Established in 2014, Sam Jacob Studio quickly gained a reputation as a progressive architecture and design practice, creating idiosyncratic and striking projects underwritten with intelligent thinking. In Barbie: The Exhibition, they have brought their signature wit to the playful display, deploying colour, scale, lighting and material to joyous effect.
Barbie: The Exhibition 2024 © Jo Underhill for the Design Museum
Speakers
Tiya Dahyabhai
Dahyabhai is a curator and material researcher focussed on contemporary craft and design, with a special interest in textile processes. As Assistant Curator at the Design Museum, she has worked on several exhibitions including Objects of Desire, The Offbeat Sari and Barbie: the exhibition. She is a committed advocate for equity within the museum sector and holds the positions of Museums Advisor for South Asian Heritage Month, and Equity Advisory Council member for Crafts Council.
Sam Jacob
Jacob is the director of Sam Jacob Studio for architecture and design – a collaborative practice that makes buildings, places, strategies and objects. Past projects include nightclubs, social housing, community centers, parks, museums, TV studios and exhibition designs. He is Professor of Architecture at the Angewandte, University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Sam was a co-curator of the British Pavilion in Venice and is a columnist for Art Review. Previously, Sam was a director of FAT Architecture.
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Adult: £12
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Child: £5
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The exhibition
Background image: Barbie®: The Exhibition 2024 © Jo Underhill for the Design Museum