For progress to be maintained, it sometimes becomes necessary to go beyond merely refining what’s already out there, and really shake things up. Disruptive innovation is the name of the game – breaking with tradition and established ways of thinking and coming up with new and unconventional ideas. Design Museum‘s seventh annual Designers in Residence event has just begun, and is handing over gallery space to four emerging talents with a brief for each to deliver a project on a different theme but keeping disruptive innovation as the key principle.
The issue of London housing is a perennial hot potato, and in Disrupting Housing James Christian is working on a series of alternative housing models by reassessing the city’s pre-Victorian slums. His comic book illustrations will be added to throughout the event. Disrupting the Law is Ilona Gaynor’s field, repositioning the courtroom as a TV studio and inviting the visitor into a whodunit, playing on the theatrical eccentricities of the judicial system. Torsten Sherwood is taking a fresh look at construction toys in Disrupting Play, ditching the traditional building bricks for a new system of flexible interconnecting cardboard discs. Finally, the ever-brilliant Patrick Stevenson-Keating is Disrupting Finance, delving into the way we use financial technology and proposing a new set of metrics by which to measure value. Designers in Residence: Disruption will continue until 8 March 2015.
James Christian
Photo, Cat Garcia
Patrick Stevenson-Keating
Photo, Cat Garcia
