Artist Ai Weiwei has been known to use LEGO bricks as an art material, leveraging the analog bit shape of the square building blocks to generate so-called “glitch aesthetics” that comment on digital disruption, paranoia around systems, and miscommunication (among other associations attendant to their subject matter).
In his newest and largest LEGO work yet, slated as a feature of an upcoming exhibition at the Design Museum in London, Ai presents “Water Lilies #1,” a recreation of Claude Monet’s ubiquitous Impressionist work.
several 2010 era synths used to create electronic music published in "Electronic: From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers" from the Design Museum - Philharmonie de Paris, edited by Jean-Yves Leloup, Gemma Curtain and Maria McLintock
Spent the day in Den Bosch, visiting the Design Museum 🥰 and an exposition about the early life and works of Van Gogh! Absolutely enjoyed the hell out of this day 🙌🏻
"If we can create a society, which sees the child within every adult – and the adult within every child - we will finally start to change it for the better.
We want to make the link between the skills we develop in early childhood and the core foundations that set us up for life and help us to thrive as adults.
To help give social and emotional skills the greater priority they deserve, The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood has conducted a first-of-its-kind global listening exercise, involving experts from 21 countries around the world, to catalogue and identify the skills in this area that matter most throughout our lives.
@Earlychildhood has undertaken work to find a common bridge and set of core skills that can apply equally to children and adults, so we can bring people together with a common language and vision to drive action at every level – protecting and strengthening these skills for current and future generations across the whole of society.
Through this exercise, we found consensus around a set of skills that we develop and nurture during early childhood, but that continue to be enhanced and refined as we grow into adults.
They relate to knowing ourselves, managing our emotions, focusing our thoughts, communicating with others, nurturing our relationships, and exploring the world.
These are the skills that lay the foundations for our positive future mental health and resilience throughout our lives.
Healthy development of these core skills is not inevitable – they must be nurtured from our earliest moments of life.
The foundations for these skills are laid in early childhood, between pregnancy and the age of five, which is why those earliest years represent such a golden opportunity to make a difference right from the start.
But our social and emotional growth continues throughout our lifetime, and change is always possible."
— The Princess of Wales delivers keynote speech during the Shaping Us National Symposium at the Design Museum on 15 November 2023 in London, England.
The Duchess of Cambridge arrives at the Design Museum in London, where she will present the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design at an event hosted by the British Fashion Council, 4th May 2022
This piece consists of a field of about 250,000 porcelain spouts broken from imperfect vessels crafted during the Song dynasty (960 - 1279 CE). Throughout this exhibition at The Design Museum in London, Ai Weiwei plays with ideas about time, value, making and political expression. In this piece the spouts stand in for silenced mouths.