Designed Disorder I AND Festival

2 October 2010 - 30 October 2010

DESIGNED DISORDER
Group Show

FREE

Preview: 1st October 6-8.30pm

Starting as a work of fiction, design is always oriented towards a possible future; a community of users that have yet to exist; it forecasts human desires and asserts solutions. As a contrast, disorder illustrates a state of entropy, disease and unpredictability a negative diagnosis of a symptom or state of play. This exhibition brings these two definitions together revealing the ethical and behavioural implications of a future defined by engineering and science . From the recycling of urine into whisky to the simulation of phantom limbs, Designed Disorder radically inquires into how we behave, mass consume, self medicate and travel, making the design of human experience an altogether uncomfortable encounter.

Artists:

Gunnar Green and Bernd Hopfengartner
Thomas Thwaites
James Chambers
James Auger & Jimmy Loizeau
Bjorn Franke
Revital Cohen
Gereard Rallo
James Gilpin
Hiromi Ozaki
Nelly Ben Hayoun

With support from Manchester Science Festival , which runs from 23 - 31 October 2010 and will be celebrating the international year of biodiversity.

Tactical Biodesign: Design for Debate

6th October 2010

14:30 – 17:00

FREE

The devices and propositions in Designed Disorder aspire to create debate around scientific developments in nano and biotechnology. This debate will highlight the speculative design processes whilst also challenging its role in society ? Do art and design perform different functions in an economy of new ideas and does this line blur in the context of biological artifacts? With Professor Anthony Dunne Head of Design Interactions Department at the RCA and designers James Gilpin, Nelly Ben Hayoun.