Connected by Various Designers
Special Project
12 — 20 Sept 2020
Online
9 designers, 3 hardwoods, 1 workshop.
The onset of Covid-19 significantly changed the way people live, interact and work. In the design world, creatives and makers had to adapt their processes using new technologies to work together at a distance and often operating from new, improvised home offices. Connected was an experiment which set out to explore how designers and craftsmen adapt their working practices during lockdown. For this project the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), Benchmark Furniture and the Design Museum challenged nine international designers to create a table and seating, which suited their new ways of working from and living at home. They also recorded their creative journeys, allowing us to witness how they approached the brief and developed their thoughts, sketches and ideas. The designers involved in Connected were: Ini Archibong (Switzerland), Maria Bruun (Denmark), Jaime Hayon (Spain), Heatherwick Studio (UK), Sebastian Herkner (Germany), Maria Jeglinska Adamczewska (Poland), Sabine Marcelis (Netherlands), Studiopepe (Italy) and Studio Swine (UK / Japan). These nine exciting solutions were all displayed together virtually [here], and then exhibited at the Design Museum for a month, celebrating the act of coming back together – reconnecting – after lockdown. Created by the American Hardwood Export Council, the Design Museum and Benchmark Furniture.
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