The Design Museum London has adopted OpenStructures as design strategy for the display structures of their permanent show ‘Future Observatory’. Future Observatory is a national programme for design research supporting the UK’s response to the climate crisis. Over the next five years, outcomes are exhibited in changing displays, hereby (re-)using and re-configuring the OS based scenography elements. During its first edition, the Future Observatory gallery showcases six research projects from a wide range of disciplines including fashion, food and construction.
Acting as both a coordinating hub for the nationwide programme, as well as a research department within the museum, Future Observatory curates exhibitions, programmes events and funds and publishes new research, all with the aim of championing new design thinking on environmental issues and on redefining what a museum can be: a place not solely focused on the past or the present but one that can help shape the future.
Featured works by Cooking Sections, Dark Matter Labs, Dunne & Ray, Faber Futures, HBBE and Julia King
Photography by Felix Speller
Scenography
by OS Studio
London
Nov 2023
