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Wednesday 19 September | 17.30 | Screening Room, South Wing
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As our lives become busier and the lines between our work, home and social life continue to blur, people have new ideas about how their living environments should look, feel and function. The physical layout of our homes is changing, and people are increasingly looking for interiors, home technology, and products that go beyond just providing a service. The challenge for designers is finding ways to support wellbeing and evoke positive emotions in our homes, while blending seamlessly into people’s increasingly mobile lifestyles. But how exactly are our living spaces and notion of home changing? How can designers start addressing these shifts? And what are the most important considerations when designing future living spaces in what is arguably society’s most dramatic period of change since the industrial revolution?
We are delighted to be joined by renowned artist, design engineer and founder of Studio INI, Nassia Inglessis, designer, author and lecturer, Hugh Miller, and Takehiro Ikeda, creative director at Panasonic Design and director of Panasonic FLUX, as we explore the vast impact of design on our living spaces of today and tomorrow. Proceedings will be directed by esteemed freelance editor, Jeni Porter.
BIOGRAPHIES
Takehiro Ikeda heads up a team called FLUX within Panasonic Design, responsible for developing insights, strategy, and story-telling to drive Panasonic's product development. Primarily based in London, he regularly spends time in Panasonic’s Kyoto and Tokyo offices. Before joining Panasonic, Takehiro spent 11 years working at leading design and innovation company Seymourpowell developing design strategy, brand strategy and product innovation for a diverse range of international clients including Guinness, Samsung, Hitachi and Mitsubishi among many more household brands. Takehiro has also been a guest lecturer at the Ministry of Economy, Trade, Industry Japan; the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan; and the Royal College of Art in London.
Hugh Miller is an award-winning designer and maker, and founder of Hugh Miller Furniture. Hugh started making furniture at the age of 15, but his formal training was in architecture. Hugh is heavily influenced by his time researching in Japan as a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow. This transformative experience led him to develop a set of design principles, inspired by Japanese applied arts philosophy, that now underpin his studio. His research in Japan resulted in a book titled Japanese Wood Craftsmanship, and he has lectured widely on the subjects of Japanese design, architecture, and furniture. Hugh is a visiting lecturer at Osaka Institute of Technology in Japan, and timber design tutor at Newcastle University School of Architecture.
Nassia Inglessis [Greece] is an Artist and Design Engineer based in London and Athens. She founded Studio INI as an experimental design studio with a human centric approach to explore matter in the context of cognition. With a technical foundation in Engineering science (Oxford University & Imperial College London) and training in art & design (The Royal College of Art & MIT Media Lab) Nassia and her team are naturally driven to address technology in its etymological aspect of τέχνη (art /skill) and λογία _(reason/science).
Jeni Porter (Chair) is a Copenhagen-based editor and writer specialising in design and architecture. A former editor of the AFR Magazine, Jeni writes for a range of international publications including RUM International, Wish Magazine and Vogue Living. Recent assignments include editing the Utzon100 magazine to commemorate the centenary of Jørn Utzon’s birth and tracking the new generation of Danish designers.