The Future is Here: A New Industrial Revolution

Woven jacquard research works, exhibited in a redesigned format of the group exhibition first shown at The Design Museum in 2013.

About the exhibition:

We are in the midst of a transformation in the way we design, make and consume the objects that we depend upon. New techniques, technologies and relationships mean that the boundaries between designer, manufacturer and user are becoming increasingly blurred. Greater access to information about how objects are made, as well as access to those who traditionally make them, is revolutionising the role of the consumer so that more people than ever before are taking part in the production of our physical world. The Future is Here asks what this means for all of us.

Mass customisation, emerging technologies and platforms such as crowd funding, social networking, online marketplaces, robotic manufacturing processes, 3D printing, nanotechnology, routing and open-source micro computing, are all removing the barriers of access to manufacturing.

The Future is Here is a touring exhibition created by the Design Museum, London. When on show at RMIT Design Hub, the exhibition included additional local design research projects that demonstrated the importance of speculation and prototyping to innovation and design.

• http://www.designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibit...