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Peter Quinn Davis. Envelope
Introduction
Envelope
Valuing what Designers Value
Creativity is not a Commodity it's a Positive Freedom
“Design is the transmission of ideas through things”
The Envelope Exhibition
Future Designers: Exploring Value and Criticality in Design Pedagogy
Afterword
Acknowledgments
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This exhibition is called Envelope. It has developed over a period of time from ideas of value and especially what designers, from all disciplines of design, might consider to be of value.
Designers create or add to the visual, experiential, the built, and object legacy of our world. What they leave is rarely about themselves, how they might think and act; this is mainly because of the reality of commercial relationships. But there is a feeling now that designers are taking up more of a position to question these relationships.
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As a curator it’s been a little like knowing you are going to be injured in someway, but not quite knowing what the extent of those injuries might be. As the call went out to designers, crafters, illustrators, graphic communicators, architects, service designers etc., we took a tremendous risk on what the responses would or might be. Would anyone send anything, what would they send, could they be bothered, would they be too busy, would they grip on to the idea?
To send something, anything, through the post is a challenge, it’s challenging because it’s a trust in a system, it takes a physical presence to get it underway and it requires a few differing actors along the way to get it to where it’s going. The result, as something arrives, keys into the basic pleasures of gifting, unwrapping, reflecting and understanding, why and how this is meaningful for the designer. The exhibition seeks to explore the changing role of value within contemporary culture and especially designer relationships to value and what constitutes the tools of their trade and or the materials they use to deliver design, or in fact things they have around to deliver inspiration or meaning, all this in the many different roles and contexts of practice.
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