An exhibition opening this weekend at the Design Museum in London showcases the work of four female designers, including a display of plants for a community garden and an installation exploring the body's circadian cycle.
The Design Museum purposely chose an all-female cohort for this year's edition of the annual Designers in Residence programme, in a bid to address the gender imbalance in the UK design industry.
Four female designers were asked to reflect on the theme over the course of a seven-month residencyFour emerging designers – Hester Buck, Ella Bulley, Legrand Jäger and Helga Schmid – were asked to reflect on the idea of "dwelling" over the course of a seven-month residency at the museum's in-house studios. An exhibition of the four resulting projects opens on 8 December in the studio space where the designers have been working, as part of the museum's Women Design event series.
Schmid's immersive installation explores the circadian rhythm and its relationship to the homeThe exhibition opens in the same week that the museum published the results of a survey, conducted by the Office of National Statistics, that found that just one in five designers in the UK are women, as reported by Dezeen earlier this week.
The survey found that women make up just 22 per cent of the design workforce, even though seven out of 10 students taking design at A-level are female.
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