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Free display
A free exhibition introducing part of our collection, looking at the development of modern design through these three interconnected roles. Explore the free display to discover some of the designers and makers who shaped the world we live in.
Step out from behind your screen and experience the world of ASMR in a shared space. **#ASMR_IRL** ★★★★ Evening Standard
TOURING EXHIBITION
Step out from behind your screen and experience the world of ASMR in a shared space. **#ASMR_IRL**
Free Display
Delve into the colourful world of artist and designer Yinka Ilori in this display that celebrates a unique mix of cultural influences and unpacks the ingredients of a diasporic visual language. **#ParablesForHappiness**
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Delve into the dreamlike relationship between Surrealism and design in this century spanning celebration of Surrealist objects of desire. **A Vitra Design Museum Exhibition.**
Design Museum Academy
Explore how material culture connects with our intangible past and how it enables us to interact with bygone civilisations that shape who we are. <p> This one-hour online lecture, featuring exclusive curator interviews filmed in the **Ai Weiwei: Making Sense** exhibition space, will focus on the story of porcelain mass production in China. Discover this lost history of making and how it invites us to reconsider design history in the contemporary world.
Design Museum Academy
Join our 3-part online Surrealism Design History course. Find out how the art and literary movement that began in the 1920s came to shape the designed world. Discover the major designers and creatives responding to Surrealist ideas today, through live online lectures, contemporary studio visits and insights filmed on location from our current exhibition Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today. <p> Become a Member or sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know about future events.
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