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Reflections on The Performance of Protest: a panel on visual culture and aesthetics

Posted on 04/07/2017 by guyjulier

Friday 9 June, 2017. Muzzy-headed after election night, panelists and participants for the final Salon of this season filed into the dark of the ICA’s cinema space for an afternoon of laughter and concern. As a panel on the Performance … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Design Culture Salon 25: Design School Imaginaries in Neoliberal Times

Posted on 21/06/2017 by guyjulier

This Salon came during the heady and feverish season of art and design degree shows in the UK. Once the display boards are dismantled, the degree results promulgated and we’ve swept up, there is often a feeling of summer ennui. … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Brexit design: how will it function in and out of Europe?

Posted on 16/02/2017 by guyjulier

Twenty-five years ago, I ran a series of talks at the Leeds City Art Gallery called ‘Design into Europe’. 1992 was the watershed year of the Maastricht Treaty that would lead to the creation of the Euro. And on 1 January … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Design Culture Salon 21 ‘Queer Craft…?’

Posted on 24/05/2016 by guyjulier

Queer Craft…? 20 May 2016 The brevity of the title for Design Culture Salon 21 — ‘Queer Craft…?’ — belies the complexity of putting these two challenging concepts and practices together and the volume of discussion that this act generates. … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Design Culture Salon 19: How does the design studio support emergent design practices?

Posted on 22/02/2016 by guyjulier

About 20 years ago, a group of undergraduate design students I was teaching in Leeds gave a presentation about their idea of the design studio of the future. It was relentlessly utopian in a kind of beachworld, surfer-dude way. They … Continue reading →

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Some Reflections on Design Culture Salon 18: Is Designing for Behaviour Change ‘Creepy’?

Posted on 07/12/2015 by guyjulier

Falling in the midpoint between the return from the summer holidays and the Christmas period, this Salon was a popular one. In fact, it ended as standing-room only, even after going in search of more chairs. It was rammed. Clearly, … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Design Culture Salon 17: Imitation, Inspiration or Theft: What does intellectual property mean in a global design economy?

Posted on 28/10/2015 by guyjulier

Following its summer recess, the University of Brighton/Victoria and Albert Museum Design Culture Salon returned with yet another belter of an event. They seem to get better and better. Described as a ‘dream panel’ by one VIP attendee, the combined … Continue reading →

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