Tentatively entitled ‘Ungrey QWorlds, these London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody eight interlinked proposals selected here for the London Design Biennale 2021 are all curated to be complementary and connected, interplaying as pressing 8 Proposals: themes, dynamic experiences, and vital opportunities. They all respond in some way to the greying of our worlds, be they urban, rural, creative or cultural. These Design: An instrument for social projects are designed to begin a process of mitigating this greyness, reintegrating colour, difference, and risk. They are all largely conceived as immersive, active, and revelation and an enabling catalyst interactive experiences for the visitor as a way to reveal realities and possibilities, and will be supported by for social action online platforms delivering information and community- building resources. Any or all of these proposals are entirely tangible and feasible, intrinsically linked and working in harmony with each other to maximise responses and harness vital discussions. AAC Neville Brody 6/09/2020 AAC The rapidly-increasing spread of grey over green not tion would also be to create a water capture mechanism London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody only threatens our cities, but by extension the entire in the Fountain Courtyard designed around the use of planet and our futures on it. Learning to farm our urban fabric ‘sails’ that funnel rainwater into one or more water environment is an important element of any plans for a butts for use in irrigation, reflecting the site’s historic Proposal 1: sustainable planet. connections to sailing. Extending and promoting the idea of and need for urban There would be an associated online element, with a greening and the detailing of an ‘edible’ London where mobile app allowing users to monitor the beds and be Farmable London: Design to green every opportunity to grow food is mapped and enabled, informed when produce was ready to be harvested, al- Somerset House will be converted into an allotment for lowing them to help in return for fresh food. the duration of the Biennale. With Bill Thompson and Katie Thornburrow our urban space This is a scalable strategy, and would range from green- ing the entire courtyard, to building an (hydroponic) allotment in one specific room, to giving each visitor a Note: images/sketches currently in preparation seed box and a plan. Depending on the scale, one op- 1 Our lives and societies are increasingly patterned and We propose a room of surprise and shimmer. Nothing London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody controlled, and the extent of our scope for adventure, will be expected: partner and guest providers will create discovery and expression is being actively reduced. scenarios, experiences and events for the visitor that This process ensures regulated environments for profit unsettle and thrill, unnerve and inspire. Proposal 2: and control in a globalised race to standardisation. In a With Jane Gauntlett global distribution model, difference is the enemy. Decomplexification is necessary for this model of least De/Convention: Design to resistance to survive, leading to an increasingly entropic Note: images/sketches currently in preparation culture. Diversity and complexity are the constant and necessary oppositional tactics to counter this, leading re-engage complexity, expression through vigilant serendipity to a new renaissance of negentropy, the maintenance of complexity and and imagination unpredictability. 2 Our lives and selves are increasingly observed, Inside the booth is also a microphone linked to an London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody analysed, judged and exploited by normalised online radio station, Radio Freedom. This is highlighted technologies and AI. to visitors who are encouraged to broadcast freely. Focusing on and amplifying one aspect of this, in London Alongside the booth is a wall where visitors can write, on a typical day we are photographed and our details draw or express what they choose. Proposal 3: held for governance or commercial gain well over 400 The function of the booth is learning through immersion, times a day. a process intended to reveal hidden realities and Revisiting an installation I created in 2012 for the Design opportunities. The Freedom Space: From Museum’s Super Contemporary show, the Freedom With Carolina Stenstrum IN LONDON YOU ARE CAUGHT ON CAMERA AN AVERAGE OF 400 Space will be completely reinvented and upgraded for TIMES A DAY. CURRENTLY THIS IS THE HIGHEST RATE OF SURVEILLANCE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. BUT THAT’S NOT THE contemporary narratives. The levels of surveillance, ONLY WAY YOU ARE MONITORED. YOU ARE TRACKED EVERY concealment to revelation through TIME YOU USE A CREDIT CARD, MAKE A TELEPHONE CALL, SEND AN EMAIL, USE THE INTERNET, SEARCH WITH GOOGLE, MAKE OR observation and profile assumption we live under has Below left: RECEIVE A MOBILE PHONE CALL. YOUR ACTIVITIES ARE LOGGED EVERY TIME YOU TAKE OUT A SUBSCRIPTION, TRAVEL, APPLY increased exponentially since that time. Original poster which prompted the Freedom Booth FOR A JOB, TAKE POLITICAL ACTION, COME INTO CONTACT WITH THE POLICE, TAKE A TRIP IN A CAR, VISIT THE DOCTOR, VOTE, SIGN UP FOR A LOYALTY CARD, TAKE OUT INSURANCE, JOIN THE design The inside of the central booth is brightly lit and filled Below: EDUCATION SYSTEM. with wall to wall cameras, 400 in total. Each of these Sketch representing the original booth and its focus and YOU ARE ALWAYS BEING WATCHED. IT’S LOGGED SOMEWHERE. cameras are synchronised and take an individual image THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU’RE HIDING. intentions SURVEILLANCE TO BROADCAST. REVERSE THE TOOLS OF every few seconds which are instantly stitched together to form a timed mosaic, which is in turn published Over page: online. Any visitor is able to view the image based on the The final booth and interior cameras from the original time they entered the booth. installation

PROTECT ME FROM MYSELF DATAVEILLANCE IN LONDON YOU ARE CAUGHT ON CAMERA AN AVERAGE OF 400 TIMES A DAY. CURRENTLY THIS IS THE HIGHEST RATE OF SURVEILLANCE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. BUT THAT’S NOT THE ONLY WAY YOU ARE MONITORED. YOU ARE TRACKED EVERY TIME YOU USE A CREDIT CARD, MAKE A TELEPHONE CALL, SEND AN EMAIL, USE THE INTERNET, SEARCH WITH GOOGLE, MAKE OR RECEIVE A MOBILE PHONE CALL. YOUR ACTIVITIES ARE LOGGED EVERY TIME YOU 3 TAKE OUT A SUBSCRIPTION, Inside the booth a wall of security cameras will TRAVEL, APPLY FOR A JOB, take and broadcast multiple images of you. The result is viewed on the external screen two TAKE POLITICAL ACTION, minutes later, and is viewable on the Freedom

COME INTO CONTACT WITH A Freedom Radio stream is being fed from the interior of the booth to the external radio speaker THE POLICE, TAKE A TRIP IN A and to the site. Express yourself, you are free!

A live blog and manifesto are accessible on the CAR, VISIT THE DOCTOR, site. Take pictures and upload them. Post your VOTE, SIGN UP for and use thoughts. The Freedom Wall is there for your thoughts. A LOYALTY CARD, TAKE OUT Each week these expressions will be posted on Flickr through the Freedom site.

INSURANCE, JOIN THE At www.thefreedomspace.com you will be able to access Freedom Radio, view the Freedom Wall, EDUCATION SYSTEM. YOU see the output of the 400 security cameras and ARE ALWAYS BEING join in the discussion. WATCHED. IT’S LOGGED SURVEILLANCE TO BROADCAST REVERSE THE TOOLS OF OBSERVATION AND RECORD SOMEWHERE. THEY KNOW TO SPEAK NOT OBEY WHO YOU ARE and they know WHERE YOU’RE HIDING.

In London, you are likely to be photographed on CCTV at least 400 times a day. This image shows only 60% of that total. Our sense of reality and reference has shifted, and then affix to a pre-designated tile on a grid marked out London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody we are no longer able to separate shared digital imagina- on the wall. tions from our physical worlds. Similarly, our increasing For LDB, we would select a suitable environment to map reliance on digital existences means that for the first onto a different space, either ideally from outside the UK Proposal 4: time in millennia we are living in a post-archaeological or from within another space at Somerset House. This era, where the tools of creativity and production will experience would simultaneously be created virtually as remain, but what is produced with them will have van- a parallel and comparative experience. The Hollowdeck (name TBD): Design ished, much like the body painting or vocal expression of our ancestors has done. Below: Revisiting an installation created for the PaperArt ex- Our studio in 1999, mapped then using the best to expose and explore realities hibition held at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in Dûren, technology available tiling separate images. Now this Germany, one physical space was procedurally mapped would be created with a 360º camera as printed tiles onto a different space throughout the Over page: duration of the show until the final day when the space Example of how the montaged image was divided and had been fully recreated. In the case of the PaperArt shared for recreation in Düren installation, we transported a 360º image of our studio in London to a large room in the museum in Germany, placing a fax machine in the centre of the room and 4 faxing a new tile every morning for the security guard to

In 2010, we curated a major festival, the Anti Design How can the ADF operate as a time portal for today’s London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody Festival, across ten venues in East London that would concerns and cultural production? What sorts of time question the increasing imposition of quantitative travel do we need to face and disrupt the future? risk criteria as the sole way to assess investment in With Cecilia Wee creative design, art and media. This control mechanism Proposal 5: effectively means that any culture deemed non- commercial fails to be sufficiently supported. The event Below: Images from the installations at 2010’s Anti held a number of debates, workshops, talks and open- Design Festival The Anti Design Salon: call exhibitions, attracting high nuymbers of visitors. Over page: The proposal is to create a modern-day interpretation of Catalogue for the ADF showing a range of events and Design to unlock progression that intervention, a living reminder that design, art and gallery shows culture continues to suffer from this perpetual ‘success culture’. The Anti Design Salon would be open-call based on a manifesto, and would populate anything from a single room to occupying any or all available spaces within the show, like a creative trojan horse. 5 Daniel Sarah Jon Cecilia Yomi Ayeni Charny Temple Wozencroft Wee Transmedia Curator for Course Joint editor Producer strategist, the Aram leader of Fuse, the and co- filmmaker, Gallery, and event experimental ordinator associate curator for producer at type venture, at Sound lecturer at the perma- LCC joint owner and Music, LCC. Me- nent col- of Touch producer of dia liaison lection of Records Late at the for Burning the Design and cur- Tate and Man Festi- Musem and rently head creator of val. lecturer on of Moving Rational LONDONEWCAS- Product Image at the Rec at the and Furni- RCA Whitecha- ture at the pel. Pre- RCA senter of TLE PROJECT Resonance / FM’s Art on Mon- SPACE #28 RED- days SALON PREFORMAN CHURCH STREET visual contributors will include Stefan Sagmeister, Jona- than Barnbrook, Yugo Na- kamura, Ben Eine, Pure Evil, De Facto, Rad Hoc, Inside the main Danny Sangra, Jake Til- son, Adrian Shaughnessy, Londonewcastle Sergei Sviatchenko, Nev- ille Brody, Ian Wright,

28/8 daytime laboratory Project space is Morag Myerscough, Paul BETA1.2 Bowman, Kez Glozier, a dedicated rad- Charlesworth, Lewan- the firstAnti Design Festival promises to be one of 2010’s must-ex- dowski & Mann and many perience events. with activities ranging from performances to instal- lab laboratory others TBC lations, exhibitions to workshops and from film to sound and talks, RAD of experimental the festival crosses ten venues and ten days during September. the adventures. Each exhibitions, performances, talks, workshops, instal- programme is in constant flux, as projects become more defined, or day there will be a lations, film, transmedia and publishing featuring less, as the event approaches.www.antidesignfestival.com different activity, here is what we know so far... led by an industry The Salon at the Londonewcastle Project Neville Brody, Daniel Charny, Stefan Sagmeister, Space will be given over to three activities:

professional plus The third space incorporating vi- suals and evening performances visual explorations will be hung in chang- Jonathan Barnbrook, Ben Eine, Bazooka, Stuart specially invited ing and unpredictable fashion; a special sound and vision cut-up station is being Semple, Harry Malt, Bare Bones, Yugo Nakamura, guests. Outcome is designed and installed by Charlesworth, Le- not guaranteed, but wandowski and Mann together with BBC Adrian Shaughnessy, Sergei Sviatchenko, Ceci- R&D; and a range of extreme or exploratory thought-provok- evening performances are being hosted by lia Wee, Le Gun, Mark Moore, Jeremy Boxer, Yuri ing process is. En- various curators, detailed on the following Suzuki, William Blanchard AKA Wildcat Will, Terry gagement assured, pages. Entry is free, open minds mandatory. Jones, Rad Hoc, Touch Records, Jon Wozencroft, come and inter- Yomi Ayeni, Sarah temple, Charlesworth, Lewan- vene. From 11am dowski and Mann, BBC R&D, Sanky, allofus, Jeremy ADF to 5pm every day. Boxer, Shane Walter, William Burroughs, James Payne, Daisy Delaney, defacto, Jo Hagan, Ian Wright, UBERCOLLISION:EPICFAIL/@IDEA GENERATION #11 As well as the army of goodwill and help, this event would not be possible without the invaluable CHANCE STREET E2 Curated by Harry Malt and +How support from the following: WWW.IDEAGENERATION.CO.UK Stuart Semple, and featuring Danny Sangra, Emily Owusu, The Knocking Shop, Arts Council of England unpredictable works and attempts Taschen http://www.ideageneration.co.uk from themselves plus Le Gun, Mark Eley, Mark McGowan, Jerszy Seymour, Martino Londonewcastle Sarah Maple,Nathan James, USE for gallery design Gerald Laing, Piers Secun- Gamper, Giles Rijdeyis, Hwang Kimis, Dominic Wil- Broadband by bogons.net da, Peter Kennard, Nathan cox, Alon Meron, Stu Bannocks, Matt Jones, Liz Mc- Epson for use of printers and supply of inks James, Frank Laws, Her- Acoustic Portal Ltd for the supply of acoustic panels for the Salon in Londonewcastle Project Space etic, Kate Merry, Chris Quiston, James Plumb, Ken Hollings, Sarah Maple, Kopparberg Cider Bianchi, Guy Parfait and All Re-shirts provided by , the newly opened sustainable clothing concept store Nairobi Lovers, this exhi- 123 Bethnal Green Road bition will bring together Gerald Laing, Carolina Stenstrom, Piers Secunda, Jo Royal College of Art for printing and Jon Wozencroft’s radlab session for the first time maver- Hagan, Pure Evil, Research Studios, Martin Bright, PRO- icks of the contemporary art world and radical il- lustrators in a collision Morag Myerscough, Kez Glozier, Paul Bowman, Pe- that embraces failure as a viable way forward. ter Jeck, Monsters, Resonance FM and many more. +Who New artists along- side political image See the site for latest ne events and collabora- Key curators and core agents in the Anti Design Fes- making legends will show works that As well as the army oftors goodwill include Sanky of allofus/D&AD president (soon); Luke Thomp- and help this event would not be tival stretch across film, possible without the invaluable son of Moth; Martin J Tickner of MEN; Harry Malt of Bare Bones; performance, in- support from the following: stallation, sculp- Stuart Semple; Cecilia Wee; Jon Wozencroft of RCA/Touch ture, drawing, painting and Arts Council of England SEPTEMBER 2010 Records; Carolina Stenstrom; Daniel Charny of RCA/Design Mu- photography. seum; Yomi Ayeni; Sarah Temple of LCC; Emily Owusu; Jer- without hav- Taschen \ Londonew- ing to work GRA- emy Boxer of Vimeo; Hector Proud of Idea Generation; Brandon or think too castle \ USE \ Epson of BBC R&D much. Butterworth/Max Leonard/Chris Pike ; Jo Hagan 18 – 26 Sept bogons.net \ Acoustic of USE; Mark Baylay; Tim Burke; Terry Jones of i-D; James Portal Ltd \ Kopparberg Payne/Joanne Shurvell of payneshurvell; Dave Charlesworth/ Cider \ Royal College of Ryszard Lewandowski of Charlesworth Lewandowski and Mann; Adri- an Shaughnessy; Neville Brody of Research Studios/RCA; Tom Art \ see inside for more Blanchard of defacto; and many others... details Invaluable support and management continues to come from +QR Markers developed by Caro- Monica Biagioli, Phil Rodgers, Andy Chen, Hells Gib- lina Stenstrom will be placed throughout the area son, Tim Holloway, Kotoko Koya and the hundreds of and gallery space. Leading back to information which may help or hinder, or just redirect, these codes will be readable using any bar- supporters and contributors whose lack of belief made MME code scanning apps on a mobile device this happen

Friday 24 September OCD Yomi Ayeni Obsessive Classification Disorder takes over the Salon to re-order expectations and understandings of narra- A series of multi- Wednesday 22 September Sounds curated by tive and semiotics in a tableaux of storytelling and music. faceted, short, sharp Emily Owusu 4BY4/PAYNESHUR-shocks including video, sound, readymades, A unique visual collection of 3 live energetic bands: Johnny Lazer, Raven Beats Crow and Pharoahs VELL GALLERY#16HEWETTtext, performance, From The Grave, alongside a Spectacular daring Installation performance by Begona. Guest DJ Kitten. interventions, ceramics, STREET EC2crafts, publications Week One Dreams of Desire Daisy and newsprint, 4by4 Saturday 25 September Sub Cosplay Ball cu- EVERY COLLABO-Delaney, Curated by James Payne a bold programme of rated by Emily Owusu (Grand Cosplay Ball) RATION IS THE 08/09 – 11/09 shows using whatever An amazing evening packed full of spontaneous entertainment from installation artists including guest means necessary, giving From 18–26 September, the anti Week Two Rational/Irrational Ian artists a chance to take performer: Sputniko!, djs, fashion show, cabaret and live illustration art throughout the night inspired by RESULT OF A SIN Whittlesea, Gary O’Connor and new risks and show Japanese pop culture, cosplay and spontaneous art. Curated by work which might not design festival will explore Daniel Rapley. Dermot ordinarily get exposure O’Brien 15/09 – 18/09 and show challenging and experimental work that sound, film, art, design, image, Week Three How am I not Myself questions current thinking Edward Vince and Matthew and assumptions about performance, writing, product, Robinson. Curated by Edward Vince art and design, rapidly 22/09 – 25/09 produced to encourage serendipity and chance. 3D, interiors, transmedia and in- Week Four Silencer: Alex Baker, Audio Research Editions, Corrado teractive across ten venues around Morgana and Nye Parry. Curated by London’s Redchurch district. This Mark Jackson 29/09 - 02/10 A free A3 ‘newsletter’, pub- guide takes you through the vari- willlished accompany by PayneShurvell, each show Sunday 26 September Finale curated by Cecilia and will alternate between andbeing decorative; purely oneinformative week, a ous spaces and events. Wee limitedsomething edition, mass another produced week and throwaway. It provides Jennifer Walshe presents a voice and electronics performance involving Irish outsider artist Caoimhin a space for free exchangeideas. of Breathnach’s texts and “subliminal tapes” Eachbe launched of the four on Wednesday shows will Artist Tom Badley talks about breaking and being broken in Anti-Design eveningSaturday and of will each run week. until ADF MAIN “ “[sic] Tim Goldie (one of the most original noise musicians today) Thursday 23 September Music curated by Jon 6th Hour Productions ask the public to partake in a perilous artistic act Wozencroft (Touch, RCA) Philip Jeck’s An Ark for the Listener The Anti-Design Festival ends with Makiko Nagaya and Peter Lewis (with Peter Fillingham) making 4 Flags/4 Stops using Rorschach blots, and spraying four circles apart from the talks pro- gramme being planned for Sep- EVEN tember 24th, all events in the ADF SPACE: are free http://payneshurvell.com/ @ Londonewcastle Project Space 28 Redchurch Street

Th t d f ADF@ BAZOOKAEMA#66 REDCHIRCHFILM /STREETAUBIN CIN- @ KK Gallery 42 Hoxton Square N1 6PB Yuri Suzuki E2Bazooka have continually made will largely be based Product designer and musician. 2 – 30 September film and video alongside their il- The Anti Design Festival lustration and graphic work. Early www.aubingallery.com

The central daytime laboratory pioneers of digital technology, here at 28 Redchurch is a rare opportunity to see rarely-

around the Londonewcastle Project Space shown work by the french masters RADLAB of visual imagery. Street E2. The space will be divided into 3 areas, each with dif- BAZOOKA Also showing is a new documentary are the and interview with Loulou and Kiki ADF@Other event spaces in and around Redchuch Street: Picasso. legendary french ferent activities, including a front space of unpredictable print, See the site for programme updates explorations in the radical illustration and dates daytime danger in the form of the radlab ADF@ ADF@ group formed in the BAZOOKATALK/SHOREDITCH HOUSE @ Maurice Einhard Neu Gallery 30 Redchurch Street Bare Bones @ The Assembly William Blanchard AKA Wildcat Shoreditch House will host a talk seventies and mas- with Loulou and Kiki Picasso centre space, and evening performances and talks in the Salon Daily poster print and installation run by Harry Malt. 18 – 26 September alongside Neville Brody. Seats will I Just Don’t Care Anymore sively influential on be limited, please see the site for space accompanied by visual infestation. A programme of short http://www.quarterlybarebones.blogspot.com/ http://www.neugalleries.com Will two generations of time and date. experimental films will be shown in themicroplex , the world’s Exhibition by the founding member of The Sandals. 23 - 26 September designers, illustrators smallest cinema, to be outdone by Bill Thompson’s , a and artists. Picoplex ADF@@ Venue (TBC) Mark Eley Amazingly, this is one-person cinema in a portable hood. Flashon BAZOOKAtheir first ever UK show. Curated by Next door, the Maurice Einhard Neu Gallery will house both Extension of Mark’s surface obsession. 18 – 26 September Stuart Semple, well overdue, and as pow- a Bare Bones daily print record, and the video anarchy of The ADF@ ADF@ erful now as it was . Further down Redchurch Street is the Au- @ Payne Shurvell 16 Hewett Street 4by4 @ Hostem 41-43 Redchurch Street James Plumb then, the work of Knocking Shop Four curators, four shows, four publications, four weeks One Room Hotel. 18 – 26 September Bazooka promises and who will host the first UK show and Including Daisy Delaney and rare cut-up tapes by bin Gallery Cinema William Burroughs. First show to shock, inspire and . ADF@ 30 Redchurch Street engage in equal mea- video-work by the radical French illustration group Bazooka opens 8 September http://www.payneshurvell.com @ Maurice Einhard Neu Gallery sure, dealing with Idea Generation’s gallery will house a group show of epic fail- Video and performances subect matter that The Knocking Shop resonates even more ure curated by Stuart Semple and Harry Malt. In the Payne ADF@@ Idea Generation Chance Street Uber Collision: Epic throughout the festival http://theknockingshop.tv/ today. A new series Shurvell gallery, 4by4 is four experimental shows being held Fail Artists on the edge, curated and contributed to by Harry Malt and Stuart Semple of pieces produced Confirmed artists so far includeLe Gun, Sarah Maple, Gerald Laing and Piers Secunda ADF@@ Redchurch Street in collaboration with over four weeks. The festival kicks off on September 2 with the 18 – 26 September http://www.ideageneration.co.uk Designed and Made Neville Brody are Love Me Live With Me being planned for the outstanding Yuri Suzuki at KK Outlet gallery in nearby Hoxton Cart parked at entrance of main festival site. Dates (TBC) show. 17 September Square. ADF@@ Aubin Gallery 66 Redchurch Street Bazooka – 3 October Tea and cupcakes curated by Stuart Semple(!) The first UK show by the legendary radical illustration group ADF@@ Pop-up Cinema (TBC) 89 Redchurch Street Open-air screen / from Paris, including new work specially produced for the with restaurant and bar. Programme (TBC). 20 – 25 September- see site for updates BAZOOKA show. 17 September – 3 October AUBIN#66REDCHURCH GALLERY STREET E2 ADF@@ Aubin Cinema 66 Redchurch Street Bazooka ADF@Other places you should visit: Programme including rarely-shown anima-

on Film Amazing events and shows around the festival tion and video work, and a new interview with Loulou and Kiki Gallery 108 Leonard Street EC2 showing Nychos www.aubincinema.com Picasso. Dates (TBC) +Pure Evil +Avant Short Film Season to be announced +Dr.Noki NHS 123 Bethnal Green Road + film interventions- see site for updates http://picasaweb.google.com/Bazookaproduction As part of a series of exhibitions and publications Below and over the next pages: London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody over the last few years, I have been creating a growing Selections from the poster images currently produced collection of posters that question a number of social norms and assumptions, and challenge the increased Proposal 6: control and decreased space within which we are allowed to express ourselves. Twenty One Posters: A curated selection of 21 of these posters would be published online, and would be printed and assembled Design to shake assumptions to fill a appropriate room or space(s) within the show. 6

Our cultural institutions and activities are under With the rebranding, the word ‘At’ was removed (below), London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody threat. Live venues and galleries face closure, arts to focus on strengthening the core Somerset House funding is being slashed, and popular expression is identity. This liberated the word ‘At’. The intention is monitored and controlled. AT is a London-wide taking to promote and encourage London-wide events and back control of space and location to counter this slow activities that are linked to the core event but are Proposal 7: strangulation of the creative arts. geographically separate, using the same block with The original concept for the Somerset House branding the word ‘At’ in its original place, like an expanded and AT: Design and place as cultural was to establish a sense of location for all of the energetic cultural remit expressing the possibility and disparate arts and culture activities that are located permission of within and without. there, both events and permanent ventures. The idea Similar to the approach we took with Punk.London, we liberation was one of attribution and association. ‘At Somerset would also create a typeface which would be given for House’ captured this sense of multivarious activities and free to anyone who wished to create a cultural activity communities. linked to the main event. 7 As part of the broader remit for the Biennale, we London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody would launch the Alternative Arts Council, meaning both alternative arts, and a body to identify and source vital funding for design, art and media cultures, with a focus Proposal 8: on supporting community and local ventures. The event would enable a communication opportunity and platform, with ideas welcomed during the Biennale AAC: Design as creative enablement as to what form and shape the AAC should take, and what its priorities should be. With Cecilia Wee AAC AAC 8 alternativeartscouncil London Design Biennale 2021 \ Design in an Age of Crisis \ Neville Brody Additional connections/references

Proposal 1 Land in our Names https://landinournames.community/ A collective addressing food insecurity, health inequalities, environmental injustice & widespread disconnect from nature, led by Black people and people of colour. Portable Land https://www.portableland.org/ An Urban Research Lab exploring different ways to connect and unlock the potential of the land around us.

Proposal 2 Ramon Amaro https://www.sambarhino.com/ A designer, writer, thinker on critique of computation reason

Proposal 4 Rake Collective https://www.rakecollective.com/ A visual research collective using open source data to investigate a variety of unseen and obscured elements in society, business and poli- tics. Nye Thompson http://nyethompson.net/ An artist and software designer exploring new technology paradigms, and has a particular interest in the machinic gaze and its underlying power dynamics.

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