Kieran Long
Live interview with Kieran Long of ArkDes as part of Virtual Design Festival
“Kamprad is dead, but IKEA has a long way to run”
“The most important design event in the world is one you’ve probably never heard of”
“Holidays bring out the best in designers”
“There is without doubt institutional prejudice in the furniture industry”
“We cannot absolve ourselves of responsibility for the implications of a project”
“We must examine the human cost of objects, not just their semiotic resonances”
“The philanthropic causes of tech billionaires tell us what tomorrow’s design challenges will be”
“Can these parts go together and kill someone? The answer is yes.”
V&A museum acquires first 3D-printed gun
“Young designers have no grasp of design history”
Critics reject “clumsy” proposals for earthquake-hit Christchurch cathedral
Kieran Long appointed director of Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design
“It is difficult to feel unreservedly optimistic about the future”
“Elements makes you unutterably sad for Koolhaas and what he thinks architecture is”
“Design, fashion and architecture hold something mysterious in the objects they produce”
“London’s fire station closures represent the inevitable carelessness of contemporary cities”
V&A acquires Katy Perry false eyelashes as part of new “rapid response collecting” strategy
“Product design should do so much more than encourage consumption”
New immigration rules are “hugely damaging” for design in London
“Sinister objects demand attention just as much as beneficial ones”
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Kieran Long appointed senior curator of architecture, design and digital at V&A
