What is the BE OPEN SPACE at The Dock

The marketplace for emerging designers at BE OPEN SPACE at The Dock, Tom Dixon’s space in West London, which will be hosting a packed programme of London Design Festival Events.  Designers will  show, sell, produce and explore, the five senses in a dynamic and interactive meeting place for design enthusiasts. Pan Studio and Jail-Make are creating a site-specific installation on the Dock terrace that will reference the medieval trade markets and Florence’s Ponte Vecchio, populating the terrace with 8 self-contained wooden huts that mirror the architecture of the converted wharf building that houses Dock Kitchen Restaurant.  The installation incorporates the water with a plethora of luminous ribbons cascading from the rooftops to the waters beneath.  Each hut will showcase exclusive works by an exciting mix of emerging designers; confirmed participants include Studio TooGood and Technology Will Save Us.

Participants

Design on Chocolate

Four one-off, London-inspired chocolate sculptures by leading designers and chocolatiers.

Eclectic by Tom Dixon

A house of scented candles capturing the essence of British life

JAILmake

Four chairs in four days.

Faye Toogood

HOUSE HIGHTOPS, slippers Factory Workshop, sewn and made to order on site.

Technology Will Save Use

DIY electronic synth workshop with a resident sound engineer.

Tikau

Design Helps: design for sustainable employment and empowerment.

Traces ‘Junk’ Shop

An immersive, theatrical art and design shop.

Yemi Awosile & Naomi Paul

Colour, pattern, light and form for interior architectural spaces.

Participant: TWSU (Technology will save us)

Bethany Koby

Bethany Koby is a designer, art director, and artist creating brands, businesses, and experiences to help imagine a more positive and collaborative future. She is currently based in London, overseeing all aspects of Technology Will Save Us with a focus on communications, partnerships and brand experience.  In addition to founding TWSU, Bethany is a design director at the international branding and innovation consultancy Wolff Olins and a member of the founding faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Daniel Hirschmann

Daniel Hirschmann is an artist, maker and educator who uses relationships with technology as the core of his practice. He has been making interactive installations, spaces and objects for over 10 years and has worked with organisations ranging from Nike, and AOL to the Science Museum and the Whitney Museum of Art. He has shown work internationally and has taught physical computing, Arduino, programming and interaction design locally and abroad for over 8 years. He geeks out about meaningful new businesses, making and awesome tech.

Participant: Faye Toogood.

Creative Director and Designer

With an academic training in the theory and practise of fine art, and a vocational background at the forefront of the magazine industry, Toogood approaches product design and interior installations with a singular and acutely honed eye. Her highly sculptural work, while showingan astute respect for the past, is derived from pure self-expression and instinct. As Creative Director of Studio Toogood, the renowned design practice she established in 2006, Faye has produced interiors, exhibitions and installations for clients including Alexander McQueen, Comme des Garçons, Vivienne Westwood, Tom Dixon and Selfridges. Operating under her own label, Faye Toogood is now also designing furniture and objects.

Please link the following websites:
www.fayetoogood.com
www.studiotoogood.com

Participant: Donna Walker and Talulah Mason

Traces was formed in late 2011 by Donna Walker and Talulah Mason, who shared a passion for collaboration across the creative disciplines, and an interest in creating a fully immersive and interactive art and design event.

Donna founded a furniture and spatial design company in 2008, based around the themes of sustainability, re-use, memory and identity and met freelance theatre designer Talulah Mason, who has a passion for site specific, and installation design, whilst working at an immersive theatre company in 2009.  By merging both their skills and interests, they came up with a new concept in art and design showcasing. One which presents the skills of a wide variety of artists and designers from all media, and gets people excited about the possibilities of collaboration - as well as aiming to open up discussions about the way we currently experience art, design, food and sound.

For Traces, there’s an authenticity in working in a site specific way. They let the place tell them what to do, in order to give people a new way to experience spaces, and the objects within them. Visitors are given a glimpse into a real but forgotten history of a building that’s not usually open to the public, and go on a journey of discovery and investigation to make up their own stories about those objects. Traces are passionate about narratives, because an object with a story is all the more valuable, and if that story connects in some way to your own, then it can become like an old friend. In short, Traces aims to find a playful way of making the art and design world more accessible to people who would usually feel uncomfortable at an exhibition.

Traces wants to give the very newest up and coming artists and designers a way to reach the industry and the public - and the public a new way to experience art and design. Traces takes the best of experiential ‘living museums’, and the re-imagining of spaces that immersive theatre does, and combines it with a cutting edge showcase for artists, furniture and product designers, sound artists, smell artists, food designers, lighting technicians, architects, and the media. Together they produce pieces inspired by the narrative of the place; a physical memoir.

A combination of theatre, history, intrigue, and the very latest in gorgeous and evocative design, it’s the new and most enjoyable way to discover new talent, with the possibility of bagging yourself a beautiful and unique object along the way.

Participant: JAILmake

AILmake is a 3d design studio based in South London. We research, design, make, test, install and do everything else that happens in between. We really, really believe in making. We think that designing and making together is a massive advantage; we have a nice big workshop, for prototyping, modelling and ultimately production of the stuff we design. We are really good at taking on design problems; researching, prototyping and making to create real world, usable stuff. From our studio we have designed and built large scale installations, sculptures and interactive exhibition pieces, bespoke furniture and interiors, as well as pieces of engineering, mechanics and electronics.

DATE & TIME

Monday 17 September - Saturday 22 September: 10am-6pm
Sunday 23 September: 11am-5pm

PLACE

Portobello Dock, 344 Ladbroke Grove

Participant: Design helps

Tikau took part of Be Open Space, flash market at The Dock with Tom Dixon in London in September 2012 and presented their collection consisting of handmade home décor and clothing accessories for everyday wear.

TIKAU combines Scandinavian design and Indian handicraft
traditions with the vision of employing and empowering the
artisans of rural India. The word Tikau comes from Hindi and
means sustainable and durable. Luxurious materials are
hand processed and designed to be sustainable in terms of the
environment, quality and aesthetics. Ecological considerations
are at the root of our designs: local environmentally-friendly
raw materials include bamboo, organic cotton, non-dyed wool,
banana fiber, cashmere and recycled sari fabrics. Most of our
products are non-dyed or use natural dyes and the use of hand-
made processes minimizes energy consumption.
Taking a uniquely long-term, personal and human approach,
Tikau collaborates directly with its 120 artisans, combining
Scandinavian design skills and traditional craftsmanship in
their home villages of India. Because each item is hand-made,
it expresses the unique and individual signature of the artisan
who made it.
Tikau works in close collaboration with the charity-based
NGO Tikau Share. Sustainability, human dignity and global 
solidarity are at the heart of the Tikau identity.

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