Closure of Canada's only design museum shows "lack of support for design" says V&A curator
The closure of Design Exchange's permanent collection demonstrates an absence of support for the design industry in the country, says Canadian writer and V&A senior curator Brendan Cormier.
The Design Exchange (DX) in Toronto, Canada's museum dedicated to design, has ended its only display ? the Permanent Collection of Canadian Industrial Design ? in order to focus on biennial event EDIT: Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology.
The closure of the collection at DX, which was established in 1994, demonstrates wider problems within the design community according to Cormier.
No institution dedicated to design culture in Canada
"The DX's deaccessioning of its collection and its failure to become a museum of real importance in Canada is symptomatic of a wider more systemic problem in the country," said Cormier. "It's a problem of overall lack of support for the design profession, and design culture in general," he continued.
"Other museums in Canada hold modest design collections, and there is the world-renowned Canadian Centre for Architecture ? thanks to the individual patronage of Phyllis Lambert ? but there still remains no singular institution dedicated to the collecting, interrogating and promoting of design culture in Canada".
Loss of the Design Exchange museum "troubling"
Architect Heather Dubbeldam, who runs Toronto firm Dubbeldam, echoed Cormier's concerns.
"Canada will become one of the few advanced economies in th...
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