10th Apr 2014 6:30pm-8:30pm
Clore 55, British Galleries, V&A, London SW1
Design Culture Salon 16
This Salon forms part of the programming for the Contemporary Team project, All This Belongs To You.
Notions of the consumer and the citizen have become curiously entangled in recent years. In many cases, design has been the culprit in delivering this entanglement. Advertisements, branding and luxury lifestyle products increasingly conflate buying and consuming with individual agency on a variety of public issues, from climate change to online privacy. But how meaningful is this association? If design has been a powerful tool in merging notions of consumerism and citizenship, then how might it be used as a tool to reverse this? What other forms of citizenship are available to design with?
Chair: Guy Julier, Professor of Design Culture, University of Brighton and Victoria and Albert Museum.
Panel:
Jon Alexander, Founder of New Citizenship Project
Gordon Hush, Head of Product Design, Glasgow School of Art
Noortje Marres, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths
Barry Quirk, Chief Executive of Lewisham Council
Leanne Wierzba, Winchester School of Art/V&A Research Fellow in Craft/Luxury
