Factory Floor Exhibition, Dundee Design Festival, West Ward Works, Dundee, from Thursday to Monday May 29 (Free)
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THE ROADS and the miles all lead to Dundee this week. Not only does the city's art school fling open its doors tonight for the annual degree show, from next Thursday, the Dundee Design Festival will offer up a feast of fine design by the banks of the silvery Tay.
Factory Floor at Dundee Design Festival brings together fourteen leading designers from home and abroad whose work embraces experimental processes and innovations in materials, working in ceramics, furniture, interiors, jewellery, lighting, product, textiles and healthcare design.
Fittingly for a city which will be home to the first ever design museum to be built in the UK outside London, in the shape of the V&A Museum of Design Dundee, its subject matter is the new factory floor; the places where tangible and invisible industries exist in studios, workshops, bedrooms and basements. The aim is to share with visitors the experience of the fundamental desire to make.
A timely intervention in a world where few of us ever get to up close to the manufacturing process, relying on designed and manufactured goods every day, we are introduced to the work of contemporary designers such as Annika Frye, Ariane Prin, Chalk, Dawn Youll, Florence Dwyer, Foldability, Glithero, Hilary Grant, James Rigler, Lynne MacLachlan, Silo Studio, Thing Thing and Trakke.
There's also the chance to examine the work of Fiona Robertson, a therapeutic radiographer at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, who has been working in partnership with designers Phil Vaughan, Robert Jackson and Scott Dunbar at University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (DJCAD). Together they’ve been developing an alternative to the current method of moulding radiotherapy masks to help treat patients with cancer.
Confidently mixing craft and design, products and prototypes, models and maquettes, the tried-and-failed, and the interventions and errors that find their way into production and make for radical forms, visitors can expect to experience an inspired assembly line of pure making.
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