Now in its seventh year, the residency celebrates new and emerging design talent by giving individuals a chance to develop their design thinking and skills via a bursary and culminates in an exhibition at the museum. It has proved a useful springboard in the past for designers such as Asif Khan and Bethan Laura Wood. The residency is open to anyone who has graduated within the last five years.
Previous designer in residence Bethan Laura Wood
Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic says: ‘This year we are asking the Designers in Residence to reflect on and explore the multiple possibilities expressed by the concept of disruption and the disruptive.
Previous designer in residence Asif Kahn
‘More than most, "disruptive" is a term whose meaning is dependent on the context. Conventionally considered almost invariably a bad thing – difficult pupils, bad neighbours, ill-considered town planning – it is now the most sought after quality in a new product. It has completely overtaken the previously well regarded term sustainable, and its slightly more current synonym, resilient.’
Harvest, an installation of chairs and tables made of freeze-dried flowers, by Asif Kahn, part of Designers in Residence 2010. Photo: Luke Hayes
The exhibition, which will feature the work of four designers selected by a panel of judges including Blueprint editor Johnny Tucker, opens 10 September.
The deadline for all applications is 5pm on 28 February. Apply here:
