7pm
Free
This autumn, prominent artists, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the exhibition Design Real in the Design Real Seminars.
Every week the Serpentine hosts seminars by prominent designers, curators and critics in a space specially designed by Konstantin Grcic, curator of Design Real.
Alex Rich and Tim Parsons
Next week Alex Rich and Tim Parsons will present a joint seminar in which they will discuss their shared interest in the language of objects. The seminar will coincide with a late night opening of the exhibition. Alex Rich's work takes the form of interventions into everyday life in projects which are improvised, subtle and absurdist.
Recent projects include the exhibition A Recent History of Writing and Drawing, ICA , London (2008). Tim Parsons is a product designer, writer and lecturer on design matters. His book Thinking : Objects - Contemporary Approaches to Product Design (2009) has just been published by AVA Academia.
Design Real is curated by the renowned industrial designer Konstantin Grcic and the exhibition is designed in collaboration with Alex Rich and Jürg Lehni. It is the Serpentine Gallery’s first exhibition devoted to contemporary design. Grcic’s selection for the exhibition focuses on ‘real’ items: mass-produced items that have a practical function in everyday life. The exhibition presents a wide range of products with different styles and functions, from furniture and household products to technical and industrial innovations.
The Serpentine’s central gallery features a research space expanding on themes developed in Design Real. A dedicated internet site, www.design-real.com, designed by Alex Rich and Jürg Lehni, is the exhibition’s central resource and an integral part of its concept. The site investigates the objects in the exhibition in detail, exploring aspects of their development, production and use. Visitors to Design Real can access the site in the exhibition’s research space, which is also the setting for this series of free public Seminars by prominent designers, curators and critics.
