{"id":51770,"date":"2024-09-13T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/?p=51770"},"modified":"2024-09-23T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:16:44","slug":"the-invisible-magic-of-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/the-invisible-magic-of-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The invisible magic of design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DESIGN is everywhere. It\u2019s in the laptop on which I\u2019m writing this, the mug on the table beside me and the wooden table the mug is on. It\u2019s in the cars I see outside the window, the buildings across the street, the crisp bag lifted up by the wind. It\u2019s the invisible magic behind everything around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I decided to use the theme Multiplicity,\u201d says Dr Stacey Hunter, artistic director of Dundee Design Festival 2024, Scotland\u2019s national festival of design, which opens on September 23. \u201cThe Design Festival strives to show the multiplicity of ways design interacts with your life. We\u2019ve left no stone unturned, tried to pick apart and hold up and shine a light on all the ways design has value and significance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DDF24 is the biggest iteration of the Festival to date, the first to be held at the Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc, on the 10,000-square-metre site of the former Michelin tyre factory. A programme of exhibitions, workshops, talks and events in two vast hangar-like buildings, it marks ten years since Dundee\u2019s designation as a UNESCO City of Design, the only one in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt felt really important to mark that, and to mark Dundee\u2019s growing reputation for excellence in design,\u201d says Hunter. \u201cThe city has demonstrated a lot of leadership in the last 10 years, the two universities have really good design courses, the V&A has opened. We really punch above our weight in Scotland in terms of design. We want to make a festival which is a true snapshot of Scotland\u2019s contemporary design landscape and a real celebration of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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