WEAVING FUTURES FRIDAY LATES

18 NOVEMBER Explore the museum after hours and enjoy a range of fun activities, talks 20TH CENTURY DESIGN and workshops around our theme of 20th Century Design. 18:45–22:00 THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT Futures launch: Designers Wallace Sewell will be hosting a late night residency in the Studio, sharing the ideas and process behind their designs for Transport for London’s iconic moquette seating fabric.

17 FEBRUARY Celebrate the softer side of transport and join us as we focus on the URBAN FABRIC fabric that makes up our City. With plenty of activities on offer including 18:45–22:00 talks on fashion satires and fashion design plus workshops creating EVENTS PROGRAMME THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT moquette pocket squares and bow ties inspired by London boroughs.

Weaving Futures round up: Meet our late night designer in residence in the Studio, and take a look at the work produced over the previous three months. WEAVING FUTURES IN THE STUDIO

More about the Designology Studio events programme Weaving futures Between November 2016 and February 2017, we bring supported by you Weaving Futures in the studio. A three-month Drop into London Transport Museum’s pop-up Studio for a unique behind the focus on digital jacquard woven design & scenes chance to experience contemporary transport design innovation through a year-long programme of events. The programme is part of our exciting Designology moquette concepts, exploring process and making, exhibition and includes: curated in partnership with research and design industry experts Philippa Brock & Samuel Plant . interactive one-day workshops with London’s best known transport designers Dempsey. . design residencies, briefs and challenges . intellectual late debates, workshops and talks Weaving Futures explores the importance and potential of woven to the London Transport Throughout the year the programme will explore different popular transport and design themes. No booking required, day time events (listed below) are drop in and System and features a state of the art TC2 digital free with your annual London Transport Museum ticket. jacquard loom. It also examines the process of designing for and production of woven textiles. (Adults £16.00 advance online booking or £17.00 on the door; Concessions £13.50 advance online booking or £14.50 on the door; Under 18s Free – for a whole year!) Each week there will be different weave designers, researchers, artists and industry designers resident in the studio. Each resident will respond to the same design brief, relating to data and transport.

DOWNLOAD THE FREE The residents will be working with our Studio London Transport weavers, Rosie Green and Hanna Vinlöf–Nylen, Museum app for exclusive to realise their final design on the digital loom. content and special offers. Outcomes and final designs will be displayed in the Studio and shared during the Museum’s Late Debate and Friday Late events. WEAVING FUTURES WEAVING FUTURES

22, 26 NOVEMBER Come and meet UK based British design studio Wallace Sewell, 12, 14 JANUARY Meet Renee Verhoeven and Larissa Kunstel-Tabet, designers from Takram MOQUETTE DESIGN designers of moquette fabric for Transport for London’s underground TAKRAM’S TAKE ON TEXTILES - specialists in concept, product and experience design, from architecture WITH WALLACE SEWELL seating. Have a go at coming up with your own moquette designs for 11:00–16:00 to digital art, organisational communication to education programs. Watch 11:00–16:00 London and see their response to our project brief. wallacesewell.com them work with our resident weavers to creatively interpret our transport themed woven textiles brief. takram.com 1, 3 DECEMBER Meet final year degree students fromCentral Saint Martins, WINNING DESIGNS University of The Arts London; Phoebe Sudderick, Lily Thornton, Michael 25, 26, 30 JANUARY Designers Philippa Brock, Samuel Plant Dempsey & Dr. Priti Veja will WOVEN LIVE Woods & Mimi Forester. Competitively selected by Transport for London RESEARCH COLLABORATION be coming together in the studio to work collaboratively on a brief, 11:00–16:00 and textile companies to have their work woven live in the studio. WITH BROCK, DEMPSEY & VEJA combining their expertise in design thinking, with Brock on 3D woven arts.ac.uk/csm/courses/undergraduate/ba-textile-design 11:00–16:00 jacquard and haptics, Dempsey on product design and 3D printing, and Veja on woven e-textiles. Find out how electronics can be constructed in woven structures to make integrated soft circuits, wearable technology 6, 8 DECEMBER Meet Maria Lisogorskaya, Jane Hall and Paloma Strelitz from 2015 and smart textiles. philippabrock.com I design-plant.co.uk I weft-lab.com TURNER PRIZE WINNER’S Turner Prize winning design collective; Assemble. Find out about their APPROACH TO TEXTILES work and how they have innovatively approached and interpreted WITH ASSEMBLE our brief. assemblestudio.co.uk 3, 4 FEBRUARY Meet artist Ismini Samanidou whose design practice touches on the 11:00–16:00 INDUSTRY TO ART boundaries of craft, art and design, through work developed for site WITH ISMINI SAMANIDOU specific commissions, industry collaborations and unique pieces for 11:00–16:00 9, 10 DECEMBER Come and learn from independent UK based design and manufacture exhibition. Experience her working with our resident weavers on a woven TEXTILE ‘DESIGN TO company Camira, producers of some of London’s best loved transport textiles brief. isminisamanidou.com MANUFACTURE’ fabrics. As well as responding to our brief, they will be on-hand to share WITH CAMIRA their diverse experience of producing eight million metres of fabric a year, 7 FEBRUARY 2017 Offering our visitors a second chance to meet independent UK based 11:00–16:00 including a million metres for transport; from , warping, TEXTILE DESIGN design and manufacture company Camira (see above). weaving to textile designing and .camirafabrics.com TO MANUFACTURE WITH CAMIRA 11:00–16:00 13, 14 DECEMBER Find out about Gainsborough Weaving’s extraordinary collection of GAINSBOROUGH WEAVING inspirational fabrics, built up by successive generations of weavers and TAKE ON TRANSPORT designers over the last 100 years. With their knowledge and skill as UK 9, 10 FEBRUARY Meet award winning, avant-garde textiles label BeatWoven® and find 11:00–16:00 manufacturers of stunning jacquard fabrics, watch them work with our WEAVING MUSIC WITH out how they use songs and sounds to visualise and orchestrate pattern resident weavers to utilise the digital loom to creatively interpret our BEATWOVEN® formations in textile design, particularly through the technique of brief. gainsborough.co.uk 11:00–16:00 weaving. Watch live as they work with our weavers to interpret a brief on the Digital Loom. beatwoven.co.uk 20, 22 DECEMBER Meet Linda Florence; bespoke hand printed wallpaper and installation TRANSLATING PRINTED designer. Find out about traditional and new print making techniques, 13, 14 FEBRUARY Meet Rare Thread, champions of hand and machine woven textile design DESIGNS INTO WOVEN TEXTILES including screen-printing, ceramic printing and laser cutting. Watch her RARE THREAD and finishing. Watch live as they work with our weavers to interpret a brief WITH LINDA FLORENCE collaboratively interpret our brief with the Studio weavers. 11:00–16:00 on the Digital Loom. rarethread.co.uk 11:00–16:00 lindaflorence.co.uk 17, 18 FEBRUARY Meet hands-on London weave studio; Eleanor Pritchard, designers and 3, 4 JANUARY Find out about Studio ’s approach to investigating, UPHOLSTER AND ACCESSORISE manufactures of upholstery and interior accessories. Find out about using STUDIO HOUNDSTOOTH interrogating and instigating innovative textile and material design WITH ELEANOR PRITCHARD geometrics and graphic reversible patterns to create clean, contemporary INTERROGATE TEXTILES processes through their interpretation of the brief. Try your hand at the 11:00–16:00 design and observe their approach to our transport brief. 11:00–16:00 Houndstooth motif in repeat using mixed media. eleanorpritchard.com thehoundstoothproject.com LATE DEBATE 6, 7 JANUARY Meet textile Designer Josephine Ortega, find out how she challenges the COMFORT AND TEXTILES boundaries of weight, density and scale of transport fabrics, resulting 26 JANUARY Enjoy an evening of circuit training for the brain at London Transport WITH JOSEPHINE ORTEGA in bespoke, hand crafted designs. Exemplified in the studio through DESIGNING THE TUBE Museum’s third Late Debate; Designing the Tube. Guests will have a 18:45–22:30 11:00–16:00 collaborating with our resident weavers on our live brief. choice of a range of interactive debates and workshops, inspired by our THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT josephineortega.com latest studio events, as well as a bar, music and the Museum’s Designology exhibition.