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A Good Design?
Objects from the I.L.E.A/Camberwell Collection
Roundtable discussion
Tuesday 21 October, 6 - 7.30pm
Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Arts (Atterbury Street entrance)
16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
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Please join us for the first public programme event from CHELSEA space for the new semester.
In response to the current exhibition at CHELSEA space, A Good Design? Objects from the I.L.E.A/Camberwell Collection, this round table discussion will bring together design experts and historians who have all worked with this incredible collection, which was developed as part of the Experiment in Design Appreciation, a scheme jointly conceived and implemented by the Council of Industrial Design and London education authorities.
The project’s central idea, born in the wake of the Festival of Britain, was to cultivate a preference for ‘good design’ in the ‘consumer of tomorrow’. A series of exhibits, comprising of examples of ‘good design’ were circulated in secondary London schools between 1951 and 1977. When the Inner London Education Authority (I.L.E.A.) was disbanded in 1990, the estimated 20,000 collected objects were donated to Camberwell College of Arts.
Participants will include: Maria Georgaki, PhD Candidate CCW and curator of A Good Design?; Dr Linda Sandino, CCW UAL Senior Research Fellow V&A; Professor Jane Pavitt, Dean of School of Humanities, Head of History of Design Programme, RCA and others.
Donald Smith introduces the panel discussion with Professor Jane Pavitt, Maria Georgaki and
Dr Linda Sandino, chaired by Karen Di Franco
audience members view the exhibition after the discussion
