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Dundee Design Festival 25.— 28.05.2016 West Ward Works Guthrie Street
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Welcome Martin Baillie to design a limited edition Dundee ‘bank note’ that visitors can withdraw from the company’s state-of-the art cash machines within the venue. Sneak a peak at Prospect North, the Scottish Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale compressed into a campervan. Take part in a project to design prosthetic hands. Play the best new games. Find out about the mind-blowing discoveries in drug design and cancer diagnosis. And hear the incredible design challenge being led by firefighters, forensic scientists and game designers who will be working together to redesign smoke detectors so that they wake children in burning homes. A DCA Pop-up Shop will be selling festivalinspired design, craft and jewellery, books and magazines on design, plus a series of limited edition prints produced in DCA Print Studio for Dundee Design Festival. Welcome to the first ever Dundee Design Festival. We’ve taken over the vast spaces of West Ward Works and turned it into a temporary festival venue for four stimulating days of design. West Ward Works is an amazing place to discover design. You’ll find three galleries packed with inspiring objects and ideas from a host of Dundeebased and Scottish designers. We have a series of workshops where you and your family can try your hand at screen-printing, weaving, jewellery carving and creating comic books. And there’s a theatre where you can hear stimulating talks from some of the world’s leading design thinkers from Amsterdam, Berlin, Belgrade, Helsinki, London, New York — and live from Venice.
And if after all that you need revitalising, come to our café and sample the delicious menu designed by MasterChef: The Professionals winner Jamie Scott. This exciting programme of exhibitions and events marks the first year of Dundee being designated the UK’s first UNESCO City of Design. To bring you this event, we’ve relied on the support and participation of Dundee’s thriving design community, including many of the city’s cultural organisations and universities. This achievement is a testament to Dundee’s truly unique spirit of collaboration. May our shared work continue, and let this be the beginning of a more regular celebration of design in Scotland, right here in Dundee.
We’re confident these four days will be unlike any design festival you’ve seen before.
So come play, make and take part. We hope you join us and have a fantastic time.
As well as the work of over 30 individual designers, you can see some brilliant new projects by V&A Dundee, Design in Action, Maggie’s, Scottish Jewellery Week plus a special commission by electronics giant NCR of graphic designer
Siôn Parkinson Festival Producer
For further information visit dundeedesignfestival.com
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West Ward Works: the site for the inaugural Dundee Design Festival exhibition
Exhibition Opening Wed 25 May, 5 – 7pm Thurs 26 – Sat 28 May, 10am – 5pm Gallery 1 West Ward Works For the Dundee Design Festival, the industrial spaces of West Ward Works have been transformed into three cavernous galleries. Connecting them is a series of exhibitions that weave together some of the great design stories currently emerging from the city. The theme for the first Dundee Design Festival is ‘Place. Work. Folk. Design.’ through which we explore the potential of design to connect the city’s communities and improve our everyday lives. This integrated view of the city freely borrows from one of the most famous and fundamental principles of Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932), the world-famous Scottish town planner and Professor of Botany at University College Dundee for 30 years.
Place. Work. Folk. Design. Patrick Geddes combined his knowledge of biology, geography and sociology with his ideas of how cities and towns grow. As well as coining the word ‘conurbation’ and the cry to ‘think global, act local’, Geddes introduced to architecture and urban planning the concept of ‘regions’– the idea that there are areas within cities, countries and continents that have definable characteristics but no fixed boundaries.
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We’ve been mindful of this idea as we began grouping together exhibits around themes of architecture, textiles, digital imaging, gaming and design for healthcare. What you’ll find, then, is an exhibition composed of a series of interconnected, overlapping ‘regions’ – clusters of objects and ideas that draw a narrative thread between disparate areas of design but which share a common goal. Follow one of these threads, for example, and you’ll find a compelling design story linking groundbreaking cancer discovery (The p53 gene), state-of-the-art swallowable camerapills (Sonopill), mobile games that process genetic data (Genes in Space) to world-leading architecture design for cancer care (Maggie’s). This is one of many stories of local design with global impact, stories about what design can do when we join forces. Taken as a whole, it captures a moment where, in a city the size of Dundee, people are coming together from across studios, campuses, cities and nations to help frame problems and find solutions. At the centre of the exhibition upstairs in Gallery 1, we’re proud to show together for the first time architectural models by two of the world’s leading architects: Frank Gehry for Maggie’s Dundee and Kengo Kuma for V&A Museum of Design Dundee. Viewed side by side, these two very different buildings – one a cancer hospice, one a design museum – offer both a succinct allegory for Dundee as a global centre of design, and a powerful message of the capacity of design to transform lives. Gehry’s intimate model lets us get up close to the designer’s feel for materials and form, while Kuma’s model for V&A Dundee’s new building, due to be completed in 2018, allows us to gaze into the future and imagine Dundee differently. Next to them both, eeGeo’s gorgeously rendered 3D cityscape allows us to picture this future in the present tense. Visitors can fly over Dundee’s waterfront and zoom in to view V&A Dundee suddenly complete – even as, back in reality, the cranes continue to swing overhead.
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Especially for the Dundee Design Festival, eeGeo has designed an indoor 3D map of the festival venue itself, inviting you to explore the edges of the building and immerse yourself deeper into the programme. eeGeo’s map puts West Ward Works in the context of a changing city, asking us to imagine our own vision for the building’s future. West Ward Works sits on the site of an important jute mill and the exhibition acknowledges this design heritage whilst looking forward. For example, as you enter and leave Gallery 1 you’ll find an eclectic group of products and materials that link 150 years of Dundee’s textile history to the present day. Long-established companies from around the city who were once major producers of jute and linen are today making innovative textiles for such diverse products as body armour designed to stop knives and bullets (Jack Ellis and J&D Wilkie), nasal filters to reduce hayfever (Don & Low), and knitted glass liners used to repair our cities’ ageing pipes without having to dig up roads (Scott & Fyfe). Alongside them you’ll find stunning fashion and textiles by contemporary weaver Cally Booker and fashion designers Kerrie Alexander and Hayley Scanlan – designers all based in Dundee and all working out of studios within a stone’s throw from West Ward Works. Design is everything, we argue, and everything connects. The aim of any festival is to bring people together, to spark new ideas and new collaborations. We hope this work inspires you to make your own connections. Exhibitors: Martin Baillie, Biome Collective, Cally Booker, Campbell Medical Illustration, Design in Action, Don & Low, eeGeo, A Fox Wot I Drew, Frank Gehry for Maggie’s, Guerilla Tea, Hands of X, Hayley Scanlan, Jack Ellis, kennedytwaddle & Linsey McIntosh, Kengo Kuma and V&A Dundee, KerrieALDO, Lateral North, Louise Kirby, NCR, Healthcare Design Dundee, Aymeric Renoud, Scott & Fyffe, Scottish Jewellery Week, Sein, Slurpp, Sonopill Programme Team, Space Budgie, Tussi, Vivomotion, Simon James Whatley
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Workshops Printing Beezer annuals at West Ward Works © DC Thomson
Journeys — Dundee Thurs 26 May, 10am – 12pm All ages Join Zoe Venditozzi as she launches a new website, Journeys, which will gather together the stories of Dundee on a map. Anybody can add their memory in prose or poetry to the website journeys-dundee.com and read other people’s submissions. In this writing workshop, Zoe will help participants describe their memories and craft them into a piece of writing, ready to be uploaded on to the site.
Weaving Drop-in Thurs 26 May, 1 – 5pm All ages Have you ever wanted to try your hand at weaving? Join our drop-in workshop where you can design and create your own woven square on a table loom. Handweaver Cally Booker will guide you through the process of selecting colour and pattern, then weaving and finishing your woven textile. Create a decorative patch, a pocket or a mug rug that will be uniquely and distinctively yours.
Redesigning the Dundee Experience Fri 27 May, 10am – 12pm All ages How can citizens of the UK’s only UNESCO City of Design capitalise on their city’s status as a visitor destination? An introduction to service design tools to help participants think creatively about how they can create innovative experiences for visitors to Dundee. Led by Open Change.
Wearable Art Fri 27 May, 12.30 – 2.30pm 16+ Join Dundee Wearable Art 2015 award winner Morag Nowell and Kirsty Dalton in creating unique pieces of wearable art. Using materialbased design - where artists draw from the qualities of the material itself as the first point of inspiration - you will make your own work of art and bring it home. Material, tools and support will be provided to elaborate on the basics and create a structured head piece.
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Scottish Jewellery Week: CARVE Fri 27 May, 3 – 5pm 16+. Under-18s accompanied by an adult Join Kate and Katie in a two-hour workshop that has you carve jeweller’s wax into a ring. We then take the wax and transform it into solid silver and return it to the creator within 2-3 weeks. You will create a one-off bespoke ring, carved to you and your style. (Under-18s must be accompanied by an adult.) £60. Printing in DCA Print Studio
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Creating Comics Sat 28 May, 10am – 12pm Suitable for 5 -17 yrs Are you an aspiring artist or writer who dreams of creating the next Desperate Dan, Ms Marvel, or Jake and Finn from Adventure Time? Come along and join Dundee Comics Creative Space, University of Dundee for a morning of colour-filled fun.
Design. Build. Play. Sat 28 May, 12.30 – 2.30pm All ages Gaming doesn’t just mean looking at a screen. Come and join the Game Lab team from Abertay University as we work together to craft an experimental, physical game idea in real time, taking it from concept to playing in just two hours. Expect lots of movement, fun and activity as we discover how play is central to games and the creative process.
Velvet Petal: Designing for Dance Sat 28 May, 3 – 5pm All ages Created for Dundee Design Festival, Scottish Dance Theatre invites little ones and adults to make mini-acetate screens for projection and explore the interplay between light, image, colour, and shadow.
Screen Printing Drop-in Sat 28 May, 10am – 4pm All ages Come and discover the art of printmaking with the Dundee Contemporary Arts team. Try out screen printing inspired by the work of Hideyuki Katsumata, badge-making and stamp carving with DCA’s team of artists, who’ll be on hand to show you some of the amazing possibilities of print.
Velvet Petal is an exploration of intimate acts of metamorphosis. Using the same domestic materials as photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, the piece will search for the poetic of the everyday – crafting beauty out of whatever’s on the bedroom floor and to hand. Workshops should be booked in advance to guarantee a place.
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Hands of X Hands of X draws from this history whilst embracing new possibilities afforded by flexible digital fabrication. So rather than directly 3D printing plastic hands, we will find ways to exploit a nuanced palette of everyday materials. Think of a beech chopping board; a pair of felt slippers; a leather wallet… At Dundee Design Festival we will be showcasing a series of sample hands in these materials and hosting participatory workshops.
Designers, amputees and makers come together at Dundee Design Festival in a pioneering project exploring materials and prosthetic hands. by Graham Pullin Nowhere is the role of materials more profound than for a prosthetic hand – an object that becomes part of its wearer’s identity. For many amputees, the current choices of skin-coloured silicone or cyborg-like carbon-fibre are too polarised. We wish to widen the palette of materials, reconnecting to and drawing from a deeper cultural history of materials worn and handled. For example, at the Wellcome Collection in London, you’ll come across prosthetic arms and legs going back hundreds of years and in a diverse array of materials: fine-grained timbers, hand-stitched leather, polished aluminium, blackened wrought iron, braided fabric. You might find something of the macabre about these disembodied objects, but there is also a warmth to them – a familiarity and approachability in the materials they’re made from and in the patina they have each acquired over time through daily life: traces of their wearer.
We want to see how people respond to different materials when they appear at the scale and in the form of a hand. The starting point for this – and the form you’ll see in the exhibition at West Ward Works – is based on a ceramic hand with long, rounded fingers I picked up in a junk shop in Portland, Oregon. Once used for dip-moulding rubber gloves, it is almost as abstract as a hand could be. It is not meant to be a representation of your hand nor mine. The role of the ’Portland Hand‘ is to keep the conversations focussed on materials rather than form. As part of the festival, we want to open this conversation up to you. We invite visitors to the exhibition to explore our material samples and design your own hand. “Would you like the back of the hand to be made from ash or beech?” for example. “Waxed, oiled or just scrubbed clean?” Looking ahead, our goal is to conceive and prototype not just hands, but the very ‘service’ through which this choice could be offered. Think of a limb-fitting centre as bespoke tailor. We believe it’s impossible to include people in these nuanced decisions without making things – you can have a much deeper conversation with a material in your hands. So we’ll be prototyping throughout the Dundee Design Festival and beyond, “thinking through making” as IDEO’s Tim Brown puts it.
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The Portland Hand: the starting point for discussions around materials and prosthetics
We will use your and others’ responses alongside participatory workshops where amputees, designers, prosthetists and other makers will work together, choosing and combining materials. Inspired by both, we will then work with a few amputees, applying their material choices to their chosen type of prosthesis (passive, mechanical, electric or bionic).
Find out more at handsofx.co.uk
Hands of X is an 18-month collaborative project between University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) University of Dundee, the Institute of Making at University College London, and MAKlab, funded by the Research Councils UK. Graham Pullin is a designer at DJCAD where he lectures in interaction design and product design. Copies of his book Design Meets Disability (MIT Press, 2009) are available in the DCA Pop-up Shop.
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Talks Maggie’s Centre Dundee
Designing Better Care Homes Lesley McIntyre, BESiDE Fri 27 May, 10am What would you want - what would you need if you lived in a care home? Hear the groundbreaking methods of investigation being carried out by BESiDE, a multidisciplinary research team led by the University of Dundee and Newcastle University and how they are influencing the design of care homes of the future. Lesley McIntyre will deliver a fast, informative talk on how design is going to change the way we spend our old age.
Designs on Justice Elizabeth Comerford, Ann Davidson & Mike Press Fri 27 May, 12pm
Story of Maggie’s Centre Dundee Lesley Howells Fri 27 May, 11am
The criminal justice system is failing communities, offenders and those professionals who provide our legal services. What can design thinking do to usher in a new era of effective criminal justice in Scotland? This workshop will apply design thinking to explore issues such as ‘how we build a sense of community’, ‘how we provide equal access to opportunities and resources’, and ‘reinventing how we interact with the law and legal services’. The event draws on the expertise of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise, Dundee University’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and School of Law.
Maggie Keswick Jencks believed people shouldn’t “lose the joy of living in the fear of dying”. Lesley Howells, Director of Maggie’s Centre Dundee, explains how Maggie’s uses the healing power of architecture and design to uphold this ethos, providing an uplifting, dignified and calming sanctuary for patients and families alike.
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A Designer’s Guide to Transforming Healthcare Thomas Holm (Kauffman, Helsinki) Fri 27 May, 2pm
Prospect North: Live from Venice Lateral North & Lesley Riddoch Fri 27 May, 1pm Join writer and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch as she introduces leading design collective Lateral North, live from Venice. This special event twins the group’s exhibition at Dundee Design Festival and the opening of Prospect North, their immersive, interactive exhibition for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Spanning the two exhibitions in Dundee and Venice, Lateral North together with Soluis AR and artist Deirdre Nelson will put forward a compelling case for how Scotland and its communities can contribute to a bright future for the Nordic and Arctic regions. From West Ward Works in Dundee, Lesley will put your questions to the collective, asking why we should all look north. Lateral North is a research and design collective based in Glasgow. Together with Dualchas Architects and Soluis AR they were selected to represent Scotland at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Lesley Riddoch is a writer, broadcaster and researcher. Her book on Scottish culture Blossom: What Scotland Needs to Flourish is a Scottish best-seller and draws heavily on Nordic comparisons. She is co-founder of the policy group Nordic Horizons and is also finishing a PhD comparing the hut and cabin traditions of Norway and Scotland.
What healthcare needs right now is not innovation. The solutions to most of healthcare’s burning challenges are already here – and they are viable. Instead we need to refocus our capabilities on designing the process of change itself. Thomas Holm from Kauffman, the leading healthcare design agency in the Nordic region, gives a change-makers guide to transforming health services and treatments.
What Can Design Do for Forensic Science? Sue Black, Niamh Nic Daéid & Alistair McGill Fri 27 May, 3pm Forensic science is in crisis. Professors Sue Black and Niamh Nic Daéid are looking for solutions and they need your help. They are behind the creation of a new £10m Research Centre for Forensic Science funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of Dundee. The research centre will shape the future of forensic science, ensuring that it remains a vital component of the criminal justice system. Join them to discover how Dundee is the centre of new plans to disrupt and redesign forensic evidence. They will be joined by entrepreneur Alistair McGill to discuss a call to arms, inviting the people of Dundee and beyond to contribute to the ground-breaking work that this centre will produce.
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Reclaiming Geddes Matthew Jarron Sat 28 May, 12pm
Under the Digital Skin Annie Campbell, Natalie Lafferty, Rodney Mountain & Zoe Kirkham-Mowbray Fri 27 May, 4 - 4.30pm
Sir Patrick Geddes is celebrated the whole world over for his writing and work on urbanism and town planning. But how did his 30 years in the city as a Professor of Botany at University College Dundee influence his seminal ideas? It’s time for Dundee to shout about his time here and in this fascinating talk, Matthew Jarron will explore what Geddes did while he was in Dundee and the influence the city had on his wider career.
Gray’s Anatomy is one of the most influential illustrated books in the world. For over 150 years and 41 editions it has been the go-to guide for those wanting to glimpse inside the human body. But with the huge strides in digital animation and 3D modeling software, how can designers better communicate what lies under the skin? Hear how a team of surgeons, clinicians, educators and medical artists are working together to produce jaw-dropping images to reveal the human anatomy pixel by pixel.
Remembering West Ward Norman Watson Sat 28 May, 11am DC Thomson company historian Norman Watson will chart the history of the long-established and successful Dundee publishers, with a focus on the firm’s activities in West Ward Works. DC Thomson is today familiar as the publisher of Scottish newspapers such as The Sunday Post and Dundee Courier, magazines including The People’s Friend, My Weekly and Scots Magazine and children’s favourites like The Beano. Norman will reveal how, at one time or another, every household in Britain read the titles published and printed by this independent family firm.
Forensic Jewellery Maria Maclennan Sat 28 May, 1pm What’s your relationship with the objects you wear or carry around every day? Could they tell your story after you’ve gone? Forensic jeweller Maria Maclennan combines design thinking with scientific analysis to show how objects and ornaments can be used to help piece together people’s stories after death or disaster. Join Maria as she takes us on a fascinating journey through a brand new discipline.
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Forensic scientist Niamh Nic Daéid challenges Scotland’s games and app developers to Redesign Smoke Alarms
Design Challenge: Redesigning Smoke Alarms Niamh Nic Daéid Sat 28 May, 3.15pm
Game Design: Serious Fun? Dayna Galloway Sat 28 May, 2.30pm How does a computer game come to life? This event will take you through the process of how designers take their games from concept to prototype to screen - and it’s not always the journey you might expect. Dayna Galloway of Abertay University’s Game Lab will share examples of computer games made in Dundee that have gone on to take the world by storm; serious games that draw from other disciplines to enhance our understanding of our world; and experimental games that are just too silly to make it into our homes.
Research has shown that smoke detectors don’t wake up most children. Professor Nic Daeid, based at CAHID, the University of Dundee’s Queen’s Anniversary award-winning research centre, was involved in research work linked to the Philpott fatal fire in Derby where six children tragically died. The critical question was, “Why did the children not wake up when the smoke detectors sounded?” Niamh will share her team’s research to redesign smoke detector systems so that they will wake up sleeping children. Niamh will also discuss the exciting Design Challenge, a ‘call to arms’ to Scotland’s games and app developers to create a new downloadable tool and help deliver this crucially important and lifesaving work.
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What can design do to help ensure kids wake up in fires? It was one of the most upsetting criminal cases of recent years. Six children died in a fire in a home in Derby that, it was ultimately discovered, was set by their parents Mick and Mairead Philpott. The house was fitted with smoke alarms, they all worked – so why did the children not wake up?
University of Dundee. She is also director of research for the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the university. Niamh has been involved in the development of policy and practice in forensic science, particularly in fire investigation, for many years.
Dundee Design Festival teams up with a top forensic scientist and a tireless firefighter to launch an exciting new design challenge.
Below, Niamh and Dave explain the background to the Philpott fire story, how they confirmed that domestic smoke alarms don’t always wake up children, and how a ten second sound they’re exhibiting at Dundee Design Festival may be the first step to saving more lives.
Leading the call is Dave Coss, a Derbyshire firefighter who was one of the fire investigators involved in the case. He is also a part-time PhD student conducting his research at the University of Dundee.
Join Niamh on Sat 28 May, 3pm, and hear how this exciting new design challenge will engage Scotland’s design community to test a potential new alarm sound on hundreds of children.
Niamh Nic Daéid is a Professor of Forensic Science and a Director of the new Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the
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The story of the Philpott fire At 3.47am on Friday 12 May 2012 Mick and Mairead Philpott set fire to their own house by pouring petrol on to the carpet behind the front door and then setting it on fire. They hoped to blame Mr Philpott’s girlfriend who had left the house six weeks earlier and taken her five children with her. The evidence used to prosecute Philpott showed that smoke alarms fail to wake most children. This led to a research project where 34 children aged between two and 13 were each tested six separate times over a three-week period. The results produced were very surprising. Over 80% of the children tested slept through all six of the smoke detector alarms.
Three aims to improve smoke alarms Following the release of this study a second project was commissioned to attempt to resolve the challenge. Firefighter and researcher Dave Coss set out with three very clear aims: #1– To find out what sound, if any, would successfully wake children from sleep. #2 – To mass test this sound over a large pool of children and retrieve the data. #3 – To produce a device that can be placed in a child’s bedroom and deliver a loud enough sound to wake the child when a smoke alarm goes off.
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Design Challenge Design Brief To design a simple, easy-to-use mobile app that allows users to test an alarm sound to see if it wakes children, and to record and return the results. The app must…
We’re calling on games and app developers from across Scotland to design a mobile app that parents can download and use at home to allow us to test this new sound on hundreds of children. Since October 2014 several sounds have been trialled and finally one has been identified that has produced a 90% success rate in a small study of 41 children. Hear the sound as part of the exhibition ‘Place. Work. Folk. Design.’ at Dundee Design Festival, Gallery 1. The project is now ready to move on to aim #2 of carrying out a mass test on children. In order for this to work, we need a quick and easy way of connecting with large numbers of parents to test out the alarm sound. The best way to achieve this would be through an app, downloadable to a smartphone that will play the sound and allow the parents to record the information required for the research. The data would then be sent back to the researchers in Dundee.
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lay the alarm sound The app must be capable P of delivering the required sound with consistency and at the same decibel level every time. onnect with Bluetooth speaker The project C has identified a set of mini speakers that can deliver the sound at the right volume. Therefore the app must be able to connecting to Bluetooth via a phone or tablet device. ather participants’ info and send data G back to Dundee The most important part of the app is that it must record the participant’s information: age and sex of the child, time of sleep, time of test and how long it takes for the child to wake. Once this information has been recorded the app should send this information back to researchers at the University of Dundee.
Deadline: August 2016 All of the tests need to be carried out during term time so that the children are in a regular sleep pattern. The launch date has been set for the beginning of the school year in September 2016. Forensic scientists at University of Dundee are working with staff and students at Abertay University’s Game Lab to design a version of an app for testing the effects of the new alarm. A game jam will see the first iterations of the app in late June.
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Design Revolution
Innovative Cities and Business Wed 25 May, 10am – 5pm Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill Dundee DD1 5EN A one-day forum showcasing the rewards design can bring to our businesses and our economy. A design revolution is sweeping the globe – a revolution worth £72 billion to the UK economy alone. V&A Museum of Design Dundee, Design in Action and UNESCO City of Design Dundee bring together a range of pioneering designled businesses, adventurous design cities, and global academic partnerships to demonstrate the importance of design innovation in business.
Topics include UK Design Economy: Financial Impact and the Opportunities for Business; Changing Businesses Through Design Thinking; and UNESCO Cities of Design: Accelerating The Benefits for Business. Contributors: Stephen Miller (The Design Council); Doctor Claudia Nicolai (School of Design Thinking, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam); Ting Xu (Shenzhen City of Design); Professor Jon Rogers (University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design) and more...
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Mass Assembly Thurs 26 May, 10am – 5pm West Ward Works A one-day forum exploring the future of collective working for creatives and the places they are based. Mass Assembly brings together individuals who are part of creative hubs, collectives, networks and clusters from all locations, rural and urban. The forum aims to build stronger connections across Scotland and beyond whilst offering inspiration and practical insights to practitioners and producers.
With plenty of opportunities to meet other hubs and share experiences, we will also be joined by speakers who will talk about the future of collective working. Produced in partnership between Creative Edinburgh and Creative Dundee. Contributors: Aleksandra Savanović (founder of Nova Iskra and Zent, Belgrade); Alix Zacharias (August, New York); Canan Marasligil (writer and curator, Amsterdam); and Steve Hamm (Swarm, London).
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Scottish Jewellery Week by Kate Pickering We are proud to present Scottish Jewellery Week at West Ward Works as part of Dundee Design Festival. Scotland is packed full of world-class makers, renowned for their innovation in jewellery, silversmithing and metalwork. Scottish Jewellery Week was set up two years ago in response to this wonderfully diverse industry. For its second edition, we champion 15 of the best Scottish-based makers with a series of events that highlight quality, design and craftsmanship.
Kathryn Hinton, “Faceted Silver Vase”, 2015
Live Jeweller-in-Residence Islay Spalding On Fri 27 and Sat 28 May, Dundee-based jeweller Islay Spalding will take up residence in West Ward Works equipped with her own mini studio. Islay will be working live in the space to design, create and finish a piece of work inspired by some of the themes of the festival as well as by conversations with exhibitors and visitors. We invite you to get up close and gain insight into the process of jewellery design. The final piece will be auctioned off at the end of the festival.
Dundee Jewellery Trail Out of the festival venue and across the many studios in the city you can find talented jewellers and silversmiths creating, making and selling across the world. Join us on a trail of the city unearthing jewellery in the most unexpected of places. Exhibitors: Gemma Brownlie, Morna Darling, Kathryn Hinton, Katie Lees, Joanne MacFadyen, Tina MacLeod, Kelly Munro, Alison Phillips, Jo Pudelko, Kathleen Reilly, Karen Smith, Islay Spalding, Aubin Stewart, Sophie Warringham, Kathryn Williamson. Kate Pickering is a jeweller and founder of Scottish Jewellery Week. She is also founder and director of Vanilla Ink, a jewellery studio and incubator space for Scotland’s emerging design talent.
These Hands
Scottish Jewellery Week is supported by Craft Scotland Meet Your Maker in partnership with MAKLab and Vanilla Ink.
An exhibition celebrating 15 of the best jewellers and silversmiths working in Scotland, reflecting on the relationship makers have with their hands. Each individual’s work is exhibited in a playful display using casts from the real life hands of the maker, asking visitors to connect the characteristics of each object with the person who made them.
Find out more at scottishjewelleryweek.co.uk
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Fashion Dundee What was your journey to becoming a Dundee-based fashion designer? Hayley: “I can’t remember not wanting to be a fashion designer. While studying, I went to work for Jeremy Scott (now Creative Director for Moschino) in LA for nine months, and after I assisted Francesca Burns (now Fashion Editor at British Vogue) at i-D magazine for three months. I got my studio at Wasps in 2012. I’ve been there for three years now and I’m on my eighth collection. I’m now taking my business to the next level and outsourcing my manufacturing to a factory.”
by Hayley Scanlan
Fashion designers Hayley Scanlan & Kerrie Alexander talk all things Dundee and give the inside scoop on what we can expect to see from them at Dundee’s first Design Festival.
Kerrie: “I left school in fifth year and wanted to study Fine Art. While studying I started making clothes for myself, which made me decide to do a HNC in fashion at Heriot Watt in Edinburgh. When I returned to Dundee I started working with Hayley and doing fashion workshops in schools. My business stems from making a coat for my boyfriend Dale and people started asking me to make them one too. It was from those custom orders that my business started building. I launched my website at the end of 2014 and it’s been non-stop since then.”
Showing that you can build successful fashion businesses in Dundee are Hayley, two times Scottish Young Designer of the Year, and Kerrie, owner of coat and jacket brand KerrieALDO. Both are graduates of University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and based at Wasps Studios.
Find out more at hayleyscanlan.com and kerriealdo.com
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Why Dundee? Kerrie: “It’s a really exciting time for Dundee, with the developments happening and different shops opening in time for the V&A. It’s an exciting place to be at the moment, and there are now more opportunities too. The small businesses that are opening and letting us do pop-ups in them really helps us make connections.” Hayley: “The city is definitely growing, especially as they are creating more opportunities. The new development which enables studio space and retail will be fantastic. Wasps used to be a jute mill and Levi’s had a huge factory in Dundee so it’s nice to be contributing to that textiles industry. Scotland is known for Harris Tweed and tartan, and I think that it’s important for us to broaden that image. “The craft has totally changed from what it used to be, but it’s nice being involved in this industry as Dundee is transforming. That’s why I think the V&A hoardings are great as they celebrate old design next to the new.” Kerrie: “I find Dundee’s textile heritage interesting, as if the old jute mill didn’t stop then we might not actually have a space to work. So it’s nice having that connection to the city. The wax fabric I use is really special and important to me too, as it is made here in Dundee in Halley Stevensons. I am really lucky that I can source it from and support my home town at the same time.”
What has been your biggest challenge so far? Hayley: “The hardest challenge for me was when I had to turn customers away at Christmas as I couldn’t cope with the workload. Up until now I have made every garment in the studio myself.” Kerrie: “I think for me it’s trying to do everything yourself. I would be happy to sit and make my garments all the time, but it’s managing all the other parts of the business and making all the decisions yourself that is my biggest challenge.”
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What has been your greatest achievement so far? Hayley: “I love that an image of my dress is on the V&A hoardings. It’s funny because when I drive past with my sons they point and go ‘Mummy’s dress’, which means a lot to me, especially as it’s surrounded by iconic Dundee designs.” Kerrie: “I was picked for Scotland Re:Designed last year which was really good for me as I had never put myself forward for anything before. It was great as I got a lot more awareness of the brand through that.”
What can we expect to see from you at Dundee Design Festival? Kerrie: “I have been saving all the offcuts from the jackets I have been making to create a zero waste pattern. So from trying not to waste any of fabric, I’m going to make a coat out of all the scraps to exhibit at the festival.” Hayley: “I’m making a biker jacket and a special edition dress. You may also get a sneak peek of my autumn winter 2016 collection at the festival too.” Interviewed by Alice Moore V&A Museum of Design Dundee
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Game Design Serious Fun by Dayna Galloway The city of Dundee is an internationally recognised hub for game design, development and production. Like many of the city’s contributions to the world, Dundee’s reputation in the digital sector grew from humble beginnings. In the early 1980s, the ZX Spectrum home computer was assembled at the Timex factory in Dundee, where many of these machines rolled off the production line – and as is often humorously suggested, sneaked out the backdoor and into the homes of workers’ friends and families.
In an international collaboration with media artist Joseph DeLappe, Biome Collective’s Malath Abbas, Tom deMajo and Albert Elwin challenge us with Killbox – an online game and interactive installation that critically explores the nature of drone warfare, its complexities and consequences. Killbox by Biome Collective
Whether true or not, the accessibility to affordable computer hardware inspired a small group of technologically curious individuals to begin writing and distributing their own games software. As a small city, these ‘bedroom coders’ were able to meet each other through local computer clubs, or through computing courses at Dundee Institute of Technology – now Abertay University. Friendships and companies were formed, DMA Design being the prominent success story with games such as Blood Money, Lemmings, Body Harvest and the genre-defining Grand Theft Auto. To support this fast-growing industry Abertay University launched the world’s first computer games technology degree in 1997, and has since achieved national recognition as the UK Centre for Excellence in Computer Games Education, and internationally as the leading university in Europe to study game design. More recently, the city has seen young teams of graduates collaborate to produce interesting new interactive forms and digital experiences that broaden our understanding of what games are and can be. Space Budgie’s Glitchspace and 9.03m draw us into two very different worlds – one which surreptitiously aims to teach us the fundamentals of programming, the other to personally reflect, empathise and comprehend the aftermath of tragic real-world events.
Like all designed objects, computer games reflect the intentions, values and inspiration of their creators. Games can be short, thoughtful, emotive exchanges that feel like a conversation between close friends. They can also easily be, and often are, a fast-paced, competitive, shared experience amongst strangers. This diversity of games is evident across Dundee. It is a city that is culturally and commercially confident. Dundee demonstrates this through innovative collaborations across game development studios, theatre companies and national museums like V&A Dundee. Dundee also continues to inspire young people through digital technology, as the city is proud to be home to game engine creator YoYo Games and 4J Studios as they continue to evolve the global sensation that is Minecraft. The future of games in Dundee is very bright and continues to be shaped by the curiosity and openness of its people and its technological, cultural and creative communities. Dayna Galloway is a lecturer in game design at the School of Arts, Media and Computer Games at Abertay University.
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The Mondrian-inspired landscapes of programming puzzle game Glitchspace
Glitchspace by Robin Griffiths Glitchspace is a puzzle game that enables the player to use visual programming to manipulate the world around them. Scale, translate, rotate and explore the Mondrian-inspired abstract landscapes of Glitchspace, while learning about key programming concepts. The game has been designed with two key goals in mind. The first is to be entertaining and engaging for the player, the second to help introduce those with no previous programming knowledge to the core terminology and logic that goes into programming. The player should only need a base knowledge of games in order to play.
Glitchspace has been developed by a fluctuating team of six over the course of three years. The developers, all Abertay University alumni, started the project while still studying. Upon graduating, they formed the independent games studio Space Budgie and worked on Glitchspace until its completion and release on 5 May 2016. We made use of the ‘Early Access’ process that Steam provides during Glitchspace’s development. This enabled players to play unfinished versions of the game to provide feedback at a reduced price. This feedback helped influence some of the design decisions to enable the game to be of educational benefit while retaining its entertainment value.
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Ink marks left on the walls of the former print works
West Ward Works Guthrie Street Dundee DD1 5BR West Ward Works is the perfect venue for the inaugural Dundee Design Festival, connecting the city’s industrial past with its creative present. As you move around the building, keep an eye out for traces of the site’s former history in the ink spattered walls and columns. For over 60 years, West Ward Works was home to the printing and binding of DC Thomson comic book annuals, including titles such as The Beano, Beezer, Twinkle and Topper.
We’ve tried to reference the building’s print heritage across the festival programme and in the colourful embellishments we’ve made to the building’s walls and windows. You’ll see a nod to the colours used in the printing process and the city’s industrial landscape that surrounds the building in the brilliantly bold pattern used for the festival’s visual identity, designed in Dundee by Fleet Collective. You can also take part in workshops creating comics or drop in to the DCA Pop-up Shop to try out screen printing. And on the ground floor we invite you all to help decorate a life-size sculpture of the iconic comic strip character Oor Wullie that will later be auctioned off to raise funds for The ARCHIE Foundation’s Tayside Children’s Hospital Appeal.
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Printing, processing and stitching comic book annuals at West Ward Works Š DC Thomson
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Designing with Dundee by V&A Dundee
V&A Museum of Design Dundee has been active in communities across Scotland since 2014 and for Dundee Design Festival is presenting two major projects, the Schools Design Challenge and V&A Dundee Community Garden. The Schools Design Challenge worked with over 1,000 young people across a four-month project, asking S1 pupils from every secondary school in Angus and Dundee to creatively respond to the question, “How could you improve your school or school life?” Pupils were asked to engage with how they can change their everyday environments. They were supported by learning resources provided by V&A Dundee and the expertise of their teachers. Over 250 teams submitted creative responses to the challenge, which included designing a friendship club, an outdoor bird-watching shelter, an anti-bullying robot that listens to pupils’ concerns, and a ‘worry app’ to let pupils share their anxieties and seek support. Ten teams were picked by an expert panel to develop their ideas with the support of
professional designers. These ten teams will now have their ideas – and films documenting their inspiring progress – shown as part of the inaugural Dundee Design Festival. The V&A Dundee Community Garden project worked with people living with – and recovering from – a range of health and wellbeing issues, inviting them to jointly design a world-class garden as part of the new Slessor Gardens within Dundee’s waterfront regeneration. Over the past three months, 20 members of the public took part in the project across seven workshops developed and delivered by design studio kennedytwaddle and design engagement specialist Linsey McIntosh, with the support of landscape architects Macfarlane and Associates. The workshops have been part of a co-design process between the community groups and the professional designers, including creating miniature gardens, visiting allotments to learn how people use gardens to rest and relax, a trip to Dundee Botanic Gardens to learn about different types of plants, and sketching designs in two and three dimensions.
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V&A Museum of Design Dundee
Opening in 2018, V&A Dundee will be the only V&A museum anywhere in the world outside London. It will be the first ever dedicated design museum in Scotland: an international centre for design, a place of inspiration, discovery and learning. For Dundee Design Festival the Community Garden co-design process is coming to West Ward Works, inviting anyone to experience how this new communal space has been designed – and to design their own garden. The new garden will open to the public later in 2016, and is actively recruiting for individuals and groups interested in helping build the new garden. Communities in Dundee and across Scotland are vital to V&A Dundee. The new museum is being developed to excite and inspire people and use to design to improve lives.
Find out more at vandadundee.org
V&A Dundee will present the largely untold story of Scotland’s outstanding design achievements, bringing together in one place the world-renowned V&A collections with loans from other collections in Scotland and beyond to allow everyone to understand and be inspired by this important design heritage. The £80.11m project to create the museum is at the heart of Dundee’s ambitious £1bn waterfront regeneration, supporting the creation of more jobs and wider economic benefits. It will both generate civic pride and transform the city region as a tourism destination. V&A Dundee will be the first building in the UK designed by Kengo Kuma, the internationally renowned architect who is also designing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium. His vision is for the museum is to be a new ‘living room for the city, welcoming everyone to visit, enjoy and socialise, and to reconnect the city with its historic River Tay waterfront. For Dundee Design Festival the architectural model of V&A Dundee will also be on display in West Ward Works.
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Fleet Collective by Donna Holford-Lovell Strength in Numbers In 2010 I, along with graphic designer Lyall Bruce, co-founded Fleet Collective with the aim of keeping creative talent in the city of Dundee. Too many gifted people were leaving the city, so our idea was to provide an environment that could help creatives stay, do what they do best and survive while doing it. Six years on and Fleet Collective has become the creative playground we hoped for. Our co-working space acts like a creative agency bringing together freelancers, researchers and businesses. Yet our model is not at all like a normal agency set-up. Members work as individuals or as small creative businesses with their own clients. But when we pull together we create a powerful, dynamic and self-supporting group that can tackle larger and more complex projects, giving us the ability to get a larger slice of the pie. All profits are fed back into the collective to grow facilities and resources. Our members work in a host of disciplines including architecture, communications, filmmaking, games design, graphics, publishing, visual art and web development. So no matter how complex the project, we’re likely to be able to pull together to work on it entirely in-house. We have a special feeling of community here – it’s more like a flat-share than an office. The only difference is that we can pool our resources, contacts and talents not only to strengthen our work but also to expand our reach.
Designing the Festival’s Visual Identity When we heard about the Dundee Design Festival we were really excited to get involved. Graphic designer Lyall Bruce helped develop the identity for the inaugural event. “What struck me most when I first saw inside West Ward Works was the geometry of the surrounding area, how from the factory roof-top the city looked like an abstract motif. “It was this thought, and the importance of textiles and print work to the history of the Dundee, that gave me the idea to re-imagine a cityscape as an abstract pattern, a series of interlocking shapes that would slowly grow to cover the city in the build up to the festival.” Lyall describes the main inspiration behind his design as a result of a visit to Porto in Portugal. “I saw tiles and patterns everywhere, scaling from small uses to covering entire buildings. They created a rich vibrancy to the city. It gave me an idea of how to create a pattern that could be used to make an industrial building like West Ward Works more vibrant and point beyond its functional use. I came back to Dundee and the design was completed within a week.” Buy a limited edition screen print inspired by Fleet Collective’s design for Dundee Design Festival at the DCA Pop-up Shop.
Fleet Collective is now established as an important creative hub in the city and we take great pride in helping develop Dundee’s creative and cultural reputation. Donna Holford-Lovell is a curator and co-founder of Fleet Collective.
Find out more at fleetcollective.com
Lyall Bruce, Fleet Collective
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Patrick Geddes by Matthew Jarron Hailed as one of the great radical thinkers of his time, Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) was a botanist, an environmentalist, an educationalist, a sociologist, a regionalist, a nationalist, an internationalist, a town planner, a museum curator and a cultural catalyst. He championed the synthesis of arts and sciences and was a passionate believer in the importance of art and design to everyday life. Geddes’s most celebrated projects were carried out in locations across the world, from co-designing Edinburgh Zoo to laying out the modern city of Tel Aviv. But for over 30 years, Geddes was also Professor of Botany at University College, Dundee (now the University of Dundee). He inspired a generation of students with his wide-ranging lectures, illustrated with his unique ‘thinking machines’. One former student recalled a typical Geddes lecture as “something very different from what [we] thought Botany should be. It might quite as likely have been Ancient History or Fine Art or Political Economy, as a note about the structure or habits of one of the prescribed plants.” Geddes also worked on numerous garden designs and public art projects for the city – though most were sadly never realised. He had ambitious plans for a series of botanical gardens linking the University College campus with Magdalen Green, and for turning the Law Tunnel into a fern grotto. He also played an active role in the Dundee Social Union, the Dundee Art Society and the Dundee Antarctic Expedition among others. It was Geddes who coined the mantra ‘think global, act local’ and he put this into practice in Dundee as much as anywhere. But the city played an important part in shaping his thinking even before his appointment to University College. As a child growing up in Perth he was known to walk all the way to Dundee to attend science classes at the YMCA and lectures at the Dundee Naturalists’ Society. One of his most powerful
Sir Patrick Geddes © University of Dundee Archive Services
visual concepts, the Valley Section, is thought to have been inspired by Dundee and the Tay. It was from his botanical studies that he developed an interest in town and city planning, and he became fascinated by seeing cities and city regions as biological systems, constantly in evolution. His ideas have had a huge influence on urban planners and architects and are now celebrated in the Geddes Institute at the University of Dundee. Matthew Jarron is Curator of the University of Dundee Museum Collections, which comprise art, science and medical history as well as the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum.
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Across the City West Ward Works will be the main hub of the design festival, but there will be activity across the city.
University of Dundee’s Art, Design and Architecture Degree Show Fri 20 – Sun 29 May 13 Perth Road 1 Dundee DD1 4HT dundee.ac.uk/djcad For ten days in May the buildings at the University of Dundee Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design transform into one of the country’s largest galleries to celebrate the success of its graduating students.
Ignite Dundee Tues 3 – Mon 30 May Various venues ignitednd.co.uk For the whole of May, Dundee will be awash with creativity across the city. Exhibitions, talks, workshops, poetry and pop-up markets are all encompassed under the colourful umbrella of Ignite.
Pecha Kucha Night: Vol 15 Thurs 26 May, 7 – 10pm: £5 West Ward Works Guthrie Street Dundee DD1 5BR creativedundee.com A special design-themed Pecha Kucha Night with a great mix of speakers in a super-speedy format. Individuals have 20 images and just 20 seconds per image to speak about their topic. Entertaining, thought-provoking, and always inspiring.
Remembering Witch’s Blood Fri 27 May, times TBC: £6 West Ward Works Guthrie Street Dundee DD1 5BR The large-scale community play Witch’s Blood is being brought back to life after nearly 30 years. First produced in 1987 to great public and critical acclaim, this intimate reimagining of William Blain’s play is a teaser of a full production planned for next year. Tickets are extremely limited and are on sale from late April.
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Life Sciences Architecture Tour Sat 28 May, 2 – 3pm Free – booking essential School of Life Sciences University of Dundee Old Hawkhill 2 Dundee DD1 5EH lifesci.dundee.ac.uk Designed by BMJ Architects, the Discovery Centre for Translational and Interdisciplinary Research is the latest expansion phase of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. Take a look inside the laboratories and galleries of this groundbreaking new building and hear from the scientists and architects who worked together to create inspiring spaces that actively encourage collaboration and innovation. The tour is led by two of the visionaries behind the project, architect Jo White and scientist Mike Ferguson, Director of the Discovery Centre and Regius Professor of Life Sciences.
book tickets at dundeedesignfestival.com
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Patrick Grant Sat 28 May, 6 – 7pm: Free Dalhousie Building University of Dundee Old Hawkhill 3 Dundee DD1 5EN dundee.ac.uk/sels Star of BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, Patrick Grant is a leading menswear fashion designer and owner of bespoke tailors Norton & Sons of Savile Row, London. In this exclusive event, Patrick will discuss his fascinating career and rise to success. Brought to you by the University of Dundee.
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Inside West Ward Works: site of the DCA Pop-up Shop
DCA Pop-up Shop Pick up your own beautiful piece of design at Dundee Contemporary Arts’ pop-up shop, open throughout the festival. We’ll have a Dundee Design Festival exclusive in the form of new limited edition screenprints and risographs from artist Hideyuki Katsumata, whose exhibition last year was one of DCA’s busiest to date, alongside a selection of his vibrant screen-printed T-shirts and tote bags. You can also browse works from our Editions programme by artists including David Shrigley, Maripol, Graham Fagen and The Yes Men, all created in DCA Print Studio; and a selection of our limited edition publications. We’ve hand-picked a collection of products from our beautiful shop that showcase the very best of local design, from delicate jewellery to stylish homeware. You can also pick up your very own Dundee Design Festival merchandise, and learn more about printmaking from our Print Studio experts.
Jamie Scott Pop-up Cafe Since winning MasterChef: The Professionals in 2014, Jamie Scott has made a bit of a splash in Dundee. He opened The Newport in January and has been seen around town, serving up his dishes full of fantastic local ingredients. We’re delighted he’s joining us for the festival, running our popup cafe from 10am to 5pm each day. Lunch will be from noon to 2pm each day and will boast sensational food at cafe prices.
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Acknowledgements Dundee Design Festival is produced and managed by UNESCO City of Design Dundee. Our Festival Partners are DC Thomson, Creative Dundee, V&A Museum of Design Dundee and Design in Action.
Festival Team Chair: Stewart Murdoch Producer: Siôn Parkinson Manager: Anna Day Co-ordinator: Annie Marrs Assistant Co-ordinator: Andy Truscott Schools & Volunteer Co-ordinator: Leanne Roberts PR & Media Manager: Jennie Patterson, Patter PR Exhibition Design: Old School Fabrications Graphic Designer: Angela Dunphy, Leisure & Culture Dundee Festival Identity & Website: Fleet Collective
We wish to thank all the participants in the programme and Dundee’s design community We would also like to thank the following individuals and organisations for their support:
Major Funders Creative Scotland. Dundee City Council. EventScotland. Leisure & Culture Dundee.
Funders Blackadders. Dundee Festival Trust. Festival of Architecture. McGill. NCR. Scottish Enterprise.
Supporters Abertay University. Aslamco. Creative Edinburgh. Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce. Dundee Contemporary Arts. Dundee Museum of Transport. Dundee Partnership. Dundee Rep Theatre. Edinburgh College of Art. Fibrecast. Fire Scotland. Icon Signs. Maggie’s. MAKLab. Medtronic. NCR. NHS Tayside. Nicoll Russell Studios. OVD. Rapid Visual Media. Signergy. University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences, Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Scottish Dance Theatre. Verdant Works. Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.
With additional thanks to: Adrian Murray. Ann Allardice. Annie Campbell. Barry Strain. Ben Cox. Bill Findlay. Charlie Rohan. Charlie Rush. Clare Brennan. Craig Robertson. Dave Coss. Fire Scotland. Graphic Design Festival Scotland. Jamie and Kelly Scott, The Newport. Jake Findlay. Kevin Findlay. Lesley Riddoch. Lewis Hall. Matthew McCallum. Martin Baillie. Morag Martin. Nicola Gauld. OVD. Panel. Paul Marr. Police Scotland. Raz Ullah. Richie Oparka. Rodney Mountain. Ross Nicol. Sandy Cochran. Sarah Cook. Stephen Hogg. Stephen O’Neil. Stuart Galloway. Vipin Seetohul. And a special thanks to all of our Festival Volunteers. O.V.D (Old Vatted Demerara) Rum is aged for up to seven years, and first imported by George Morton to Dundee in 1838. It’s unique smooth, dark, sweet and strong taste has been enjoyed the world over ever since, and particularly in Scotland, the rum’s spiritual home.
At a glance
EXHIBITIONS Open daily 10am - 5pm
Wed 25 May
10am
FORUM Design Revolution Dalhousie Building
Thurs 26 May
10am
FORUM Mass Assembly
10am
WORKSHOP Journeys – Dundee
1pm
WORKSHOP Weaving Drop-in
7pm
Pecha Kucha Night: Vol 15
Fri 27 May
10am
TALK Designing Better Care Homes
10am
WORKSHOP Redesigning the Dundee Experience
11am
TALK Story of Maggie’s Centre Dundee
12pm
TALK Designs on Justice
12.30pm
WORKSHOP Wearable Art
1pm
TALK Prospect North: Live From Venice
2pm
TALK A Designer’s Guide to Transforming Healthcare
3pm
TALK What Can Design Do for Forensic Science?
3pm
WORKSHOP Scottish Jewellery Week: CARVE
4pm
TALK Under the Digital Skin
Sat 28 May
10am
WORKSHOP Screen Printing Drop-in
10am
WORKSHOP Creating Comics
11am
TALK Remembering West Ward
12pm
TALK Reclaiming Geddes
12.30pm
WORKSHOP Design. Build. Play.
1pm
TALK Forensic Jewellery
2.30pm
TALK Game Design: Serious Fun?
3.15pm
TALK Redesigning Smoke Detectors
3pm
WORKSHOP Velvet Petal: Designing for Dance
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The dimensions of this programme are taken from a Beano annual, one of the many comic book annuals produced in the West Ward Works building by DC Thomson.