Key details
Time
- 6:30pm – 10pm
Price
- Free
Who could attend
- Everyone
Type
- Lecture
"Deviation, Repetition, Appropriation - 82-21"
Ben Kelly is one of the UK’s most influential designers. He has directed successful and innovative projects across the UK, Europe and Asia. He is best known for his interior design of the legendary nightclub, The Haçienda in Manchester. His practice has produced influential work for 180 The Strand, Virgil Abloh, The Sex Pistols, The V&A, Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, Factory Records, 4AD, The Science Museum, The Design Council, The Natural History Museum, Gymbox and BIMM.
Ben is a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), Visiting Professor in Interior Design at The Royal College of Art and Professor in Interior Design at Kingston University. He was Chair of Interior and Spatial Design at University of the Arts London (UAL 2013 – 2016), and has been nominated for the Prince Philip Design Prize for outstanding achievement in Design for Business and Society by D&AD.
Professor Graeme Brooker is an interior designer with extensive experience in practice, education and research. He studied and practiced Interior design in London and Manchester, teaching Interior Architecture in Cardiff between 1997-2004. He then commenced the role of the head of Interior Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, and between 2004-2011 led the BA, MA and the Design Research Centre. In 2011 he was Principal Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Urbanism at Brighton University before, in 2013, becoming the head of the newly formed department of Fashion and Interiors at Middlesex University in London. He joined the RCA as Head of Programme in 2015.
Register via Zoom to attend: https://rca-ac.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r99pHCYQQRSeTWNB56spSg
