Design is the planned form of material culture, a physical expression – but can this be backwards-engineered? If so, design can become less about solving a problem of physical provisions and instead answer the questions around how we want to live.

In the spirit of affecting societal change through design, our gallery has tasked a multidisciplinary group of designers with the challenge of producing in that mindset – designing objects as political catalysts, not material essentials.

We’re thrilled to announce our next exhibition, Anti Chairs – a collaborative call to arms for conceptual design in a material world, featuring new works by Justin Donnelly and Monling Lee of Jumbo, Bradley L. Bowers, Illana Harris Bablau, Chris Wolston, Ellen Pong and Louis Bressolles.

Anti Chairs respond to today’s world – a fractured landscape where tectonic shifts disrupt our daily lives and relentlessly wreak havoc on our society. This showcase displays the art of design over decoration, the pulling of a cultural thread.