Sunday, 26 June 2005 | Levent OZLER
Touch Me
Contemporary Design Exhibition
Our sense of touch is the focus of this unique contemporary design exhibition, showing at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) from 16 June - 29 August 2005.
Through a series of contemporary design products and installations, games, live science experiments and a 'garden of the senses', Touch Me encourages visitors to explore touch - both today and in possible designs of the future. It invites people to find out what it would be like to squeeze a doorbell rather than press it, for example, or stroke the TV to switch it on.
In the interactive garden of the senses, visitors can play games, take part in live science experiments and engage all their senses in an immersive sensory room. They can challenge each other to a game of 'chicken' on the Painstation, play table tennis with a difference on MIT Medialab's PingPongPlus or take part in a human-scale 'PacMan' game using Spacehoppers.
This fun and thought-provoking exhibition raises questions about society today and in the future. Do we live in a touch-starved society? Can 'virtual' touch interaction ever be a substitute for real touch? And can our sense of touch help us develop stronger relationships?
Touch Me is a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust and V&A. The exhibition is curated by freelance writer and curator Hugh Aldersey-Williams and the V&A's Lauren Parker, featuring work by numerous noted artists and designers.
Opening times
10.00-17.45 daily
10.00-22.00 Wednesdays, last Friday of the month.
Exhibition space is vacated five minutes before Museum closing.
Last entry to the exhibition is at 17.20
(last ticket sold at 17.15)
Late opening last entry to the exhibition is at 21.20 (last ticket sold 21.15)
Access
The Museum has a wide range of services for disabled visitors. Call 020 7942 2766 or textphone 020 7942 2002 for details. There is full access to the galleries.
How to reach the V&A
South Kensington
Buses: C1, 14, 74 and 414 stop outside the Cromwell Road entrance.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7
020 7942 2000
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1376_touch_me/
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