Exhibitions

Design Dispensary

Our Design Dispensary showcases the amazing people, places and stories behind Dundee Design Festival. Take a deep dive into the colourful work of local designer Hannah Sabapathy and the politics of pattern; explore the bookend through its dual role as a decorative and functional object; learn how design can live harmoniously with a sustainable approach to making and find out more about Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc and it’s amazing manufacturing history.
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Collect all four free zines produced by our writer-in-residence Sam Gonçalves and graphic designer Martin Baillie. Zines are available to collect from V&A Dundee from 23 August, and from Dundee Design Festival at Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc from 23 September.

Process

Showcasing ideas and prototypes from five contemporary designers working as a collective across art, craft, scent, urbanism and technology. Brought together by Local Heroes and facilitated by curator Stacey Hunter – Hannah Sabapathy, Soorin Shin, Iseabal Hendry, Ciara Isabel Neufeldt and Clara Weale present the outcomes from their research into new design products and services.⁠

Lost & Found – Brown office

In an age where society is grappling with the dual concerns of wastefulness and the wake of unfettered technological progress, the project casts light on the creative potential of
hybridising the old and new. In response to the festival theme of multiplicity, Lost & Found looks to things considered recently defunct – be they considered wasteful, obsolete or undervalued – and re-imagines their potential with digital fabrication technologies.

Emerging Design x Real World Projects

An exhibition of emerging graphic design talent from DJCAD students in response to a brief set by the DDF24 team. Featuring distinctive and expressive visual concepts for festival signage and marketing including the winning design by Sophie O’Mullan.
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In partnership with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.

the world is beautiful again

The World Is Beautiful Again explores issues in our physical surroundings and the limits of technology through the eyes of generative AI. The project invites you to submit photographs depicting something that you want to see changed, repaired or removed: from personal problems to global issues affecting the planet. Submitted photos will be playfully “fixed” in a performance by artists Sebastian Schmieg and Lina Schwarzenberg, using generative AI tools to manipulate the images. Featured images will be captured on a city photo walk, led by Abertay University’s Dr Martin Zeilinger and co-developed with the artists. 
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Supported by Abertay University, Adobe, and Goethe-Institut. The World Is Beautiful Again was originally commissioned by Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2023.

CLIMAVORE Waste Seashell Panel

CLIMAVORE Skye is a project supporting marine ecologies and building alternative economies in the Isle of Skye and Raasay. CLIMAVORE are currently developing a terrazzo tile made from seashell waste: a low-carbon building material. This panel is offcuts from CLIMAVORE’s tile production workshop, which is currently producing large scale murals for five public artworks in the Isle of Skye and Raasay. A sample panel will be on display within AdesignStorie’s House of Wellbeing. CLIMAVORE is working to advance the “tidal commons” framework through Public-Common-Partnerships, a collaboration with the island communities to think of a responsible collective community use of the tidal zone. Ultimately, the long-term material project works to set up a Common Good Fund to redistribute resources among residents.

A journey through colour – G . F Smith

A collaborative project blurring the lines between colour, sound, and design. G . F Smith teamed up with music and sound design studio father, who set the brief of developing a soundscape inspired by the 55 colours of their Colorplan range.