The Royal College of Art (RCA), voted again in 2016 as the world’s leading art and design university, will host design workshops during Dubai Design Week this October.
The Royal College of Art (RCA), voted again in 2016 as the world’s leading art and design university, will host design workshops during Dubai Design Week this October. Tailored to inspire design professionals, students and enthusiasts, the workshops will cover an array of design disciplines: curatorial approaches to design, challenges of interior design pop-ups and techniques of industrial design, as well as key skills in the designers’ arsenal such as hand drawing and rapid ideation sketch-model making.
Dubai Design Week is subsidizing the RCA Workshops for Dubai’s creative community, in partnership with Dubai Design District (d3): each full-day RCA Workshop, from October 25 to 27, will cost only 500 AED per person.
More details and registration can be found at http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/courses
Interior Design pop-ups
Tuesday 25th October | led by Harriet Harris
Interior Design pop-ups proliferate in retail and hospitality spaces, provide imaginative interventions within public space and even offer transformative solutions for humanitarian crises.
This one-day taught workshop will present the past, present and future of interior design pop-ups and examine the work of established designers as well as a recent RCA interior design student graduates.
Led by Dr Harriet Harriss, Senior Tutor in Interior Design at the RCA, the one-day workshop will also invite participants to engage in a short pop-up design ‘hackathon’ – working in teams to propose pop-up solutions to specific spatial challenges. Each team will have an opportunity to present their designs to a jury comprised of designers and RCA tutors and students.
Curating Design
Wednesday 26th October | led by Martina Margetts
From new museums to international biennales, there has been a growth of interest in curatorial approaches to design in recent years. Exhibitions of design, from the experimental to the everyday, are attracting increasingly diverse audiences, as curators use design as a means to explore themes of contemporary social and cultural relevance.
This one-day workshop will introduce you to a range of current questions and practices affecting design curation and the making of exhibitions.
The workshop is led by RCA Senior Tutor Martina Margetts, a leading international specialist in the crafts and design, and the curator of several ground breaking exhibitions, including The Raw and the Cooked: New Work in Clay in Britain (MOMA, Oxford and Barbican, London, 1993; with Alison Britton); Objects of Our Time (Crafts Council, 1996) and Only Human (Crafts Council, 1999). Her most recent exhibition was 'Time Machines: Daniel Weil and the Art of Design (Design Museum London, 2014).
Products for Spaces - Industrial Design
Thursday 27th October | led by Tim Rundle
Furniture, lighting and hardware products form the interface between people and architecture. As technology, materials and manufacturing techniques develop, industrial designers are presented with the opportunity to reimagine the objects that complete the built spaces we inhabit.
In this one-day workshop, participants will be taken on a journey to understand how advances in manufacturing technology have influenced product design. They will also learn about the techniques employed by leading global studios to design, evaluate, redesign and develop furniture and lighting products.
The day will culminate in a workshop in which participants will have the opportunity to explore some of the most invaluable skills in the designer’s arsenal: hand drawing and rapid ideation sketch-model making.
The workshop will be led by Tim Rundle, a Design for Manufacture Tutor on the RCA’s Design Products programme. Tim is a London-based Industrial Designer who, before forming his own practice, worked in the studios of Tom Dixon, Terence Conran and PriestmanGoode.
For inquiries: [email protected]