Designing for our Future Selves This free pop-up exhibition has now closed
NEW OLD
The exhibition looked at how design can help people lead fuller, healthier and more rewarding lives into old age, asking the question: how can designers meet the challenge of a rapidly ageing society? From robotic clothing to driverless cars, the exhibition rethought how design approached ageing.
Curated by Jeremy Myerson, Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, and sponsored by the Helen Hamlyn Trust and AXA PPP healthcare, the exhibition was organised into six sections - Ageing, Identity, Home, Community, Working and Mobility.
Each section featured a special design commission by a leading designer or design team, creating new solutions for demographic change as well as addressing the challenges’ of ages. New projects by Yves Béhar /fuseproject, Konstantin Grcic, Future Facility, Special Projects, IDEO and Priestman Goode featured in the show. NEW OLD examined how innovation and design can reimagine how we live the later stages of our lives.
Take a look back at the NEW OLD exhibition, which took place from 12 January 2017 – 19 February 2017. NEW OLD was curated by Jeremy Myerson, Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, and sponsored by the Helen Hamlyn Trust and AXA PPP healthcare.
©Special Projects, photography by Luke Hayes
Photography by Luke Hayes
©Konstantin Grcic, 2016
©PriestmanGoode, photography by Luke Hayes
Photography by Luke Hayes
©fuseproject, photography by Luke Hayes
Photography by Luke Hayes
©Future Facility, photography by Luke Hayes
Photography by Luke Hayes
©Yves Béhar & fuseproject
©Mother, photography by Luke Hayes
©Ideo, photography by Luke Hayes
"Everything you need for a techno-utopian retirement"- The Guardian
"This thought-provoking, futuristic and fun exhibition explores with enthusiasm, imagination and sometimes wit, how design could help people lead fuller, healthier, more rewarding lives in an ageing society — whether at home, at work, or out and about"- Evening Standard
"The exhibition takes the taboo out of talking about old age, and feels youthful, without being exclusive "- Wallpaper*
The pop-up exhibition took place in the Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery.
Open from 10:00 - 18:00 each day and 20:00 on the first Thursdays of the month.
This free-pop exhibition has now closed
Technology editor Vicki Turk from New Scientist meets the #ElliQ home robot, which features at the NEW OLD exhibition, and discusses other innovative technology designed for the elderly.
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