Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World
The Fear and Love exhibition features 11 different installations by inventive designers working in the industry today.
The Fear and Love exhibition is explores modern issues such as online dating, robots, fashion and Brexit.
Ma Ke Presents The Earth
Ma Ke is a Chinese fashion designer. Her ongoing project Wuyong or 'Useless' is about having a strong connection to to the land and the rural traditions of China. She rejects consumerism and fast fashion and treats her clothing as a form of art and ethical expression. It is about coexisting with nature and helping fight poverty in areas in China where they lead happy lives without the things we expect as essentials in life. She is trying to inspire others to live a more sustainable life.
Andres Jaque presents Intimate Strangers
Andres Jaque is based in New York and Madrid. He explores how people in modern society interact with one another and how behaviours are changing. He has focused his work on dating apps using audio-visual installation featuring a series of tales about how our pursuit of sex and love through social media is changing the way we view the city, our bodies and our identity.
Neri Oxman and Stratasys present Vespers
Neri Oxman is a architect, designer and professor at MIT in Boston. She has created a series of death masks that are called Vespers. She had created these masks with the Material Matter Group and the Vespers are created using high-quality printing with a 3D printing company Stratasys. The inspiration of the masks are of ancient ritual objects which are traditionally made using wax or plaster and state-of-the-art technology. She is questions how wearable technology may transform us at the end of our lives. She has made a mask for the singer/songwriter Björk.
Madeline Gannon presents Mimus
Madeline Gannon is a multidisciplinary designer based in Pittsburg. She had created Mimus, an industrial robot that has no eyes yet senses your presence and is intrigued and follows people around but will shut itself off when it gets bored. Gannon, with support from Autodesk, shows that despite our fears and surrounding robotics, we have the power to foster empathy and companionship between humans and machine.
Christien Meindertsma presents Fibre Market
Christien Meindertsma is a Dutch designer that focuses on the Fibre Market and explores the potentials of textile recycling. She has noted that there is almost no culture in textile recycling so she has shown this by collecting 1,000 discarded pollens and turned them into fibres to use as a colourful exhibition.
Hussein Chalayan presents Room Tone
Hussein Chalayan is a UK based fashion designer that has produced a series of wearable devices that allow detect your emotions in the outside world. It addresses the idea of repressed emotions, and explores everyday emotions and anxieties from the fear of terrorism, sexual desire connected to city-living.
OMA/AMO presents The Pan-European Living Room
OMA, the architecture practice founded by Rem Koolhaas, presents The Pan-European Living Room. In light to the recent Brexit vote, the 28 EU members are shown as the vertical blinds in the form of the OMA-designed barcode flag for the EU. in the domestic interior that has been shaped by an ideal of European cooperation and trade.
Designer Maker User
The exhibition presents the development of modern design through the three interconnected roles - Designer, Maker and User.
The exhibition presents almost 1000 items of twentieth and twenty-first century design. The exhibition features architecture and engineering, the digital world, fashion and graphics. The displays are designed by Studio Myerscough and Studio Kin.
