Design Museum Opens New London Home with 'Fear and Love'

The Design Museum in London inaugurated its new location on High Street Kensington on November 24, 2016, with the exhibition 'Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World,' curated by chief curator Justin McGuirk. The show presents design as an inclusive discipline spanning product design, technology, politics, ecology, labor, migration, and sexuality. McGuirk selected eleven international design teams from architecture, graphics, engineering, fashion, and robotics to create new experiments. The installation by Sam Jacob Studio and OK-RM features silver curtains transforming the Pawson gallery into a futuristic laboratory. Highlights include Andrés Jaque's psychedelic video installation exploring how Grindr's geolocation data is used by Middle Eastern authoritarian regimes to control LGBT communities or aid Syrian refugees; Madeline Gannon's robot Mimus that interacts with visitors; Christien Meindertsma's recycling of over 1,000 sweaters into wool, revealing inaccurate clothing labels; and OMA/AMO's 'The Pan-European Living Room' with 28 design pieces from EU states and a Union Jack strip revealing a bombed Rotterdam image as a Brexit commentary. The exhibition runs until April 23, 2017.