Designers in Residence: Residency II Installations Announced

The Design Museum announced the second part of the annual Designers in Residence programme 2009 - 2010.

Featuring new work from Asif Khan and Bethan Wood, as well as an installation by the Farm collective (Giles Miller, Alexena Cayless, Sebastian Hejna and Guy Brown).

Designers in Residence is an annual programme where the Design Museum invites young designers to create site-specific work and transform the ground floor of the museum.

This series of installations is an opportunity for the Design Museum to showcase and champion emerging talent within the field of design.

Each resident was chosen by the Design Museum, a process which stretched the length and breadth of Britain.

Now in its third year, Designers in Residence supports the selected designers at an early stage of their career, allowing them to build on their current design practice and develop new or existing work.

Asif Khan will create an installation in the museum Tank using a collection of local flora which he has put through a freeze dying process to preserve and prolong its life.

The resulting material will be used to create a new furniture system.

Bethan Wood will furnish the museum cafe with functional furniture made from recycled material, each piece will be detailed using the traditional craft of marquetry to create a patchwork of laminates.