This exhibition toured to six venues across East Asia as part of the New British Inventors Campaign. I was commissioned by the British Council to curate an exhibition on pioneering Heatherwick Studio who had risen to acclaim with projects such as the Rolling Bridge, 2010 Shanghai Expo Pavilion, London Olympic cauldron. Heatherwick Studio distinguishes itself through the ever-growing scale and ambition of its projects. Resisting conventional categorisation, the studio operates across multiple disciplines from furniture and product design to architecture and urban planning.

I worked closely with Thomas Heatherwick and his team, going through the archive, project files, conducting interviews and observing design reviews and processes. The exhibition was structured in three sections, “thinking’, “making” and “storytelling” showing projects from his early student work to major commissions on the drawing board at the time. We showed a remarkable array of material from drawings, scale models and large-scale prototypes, photography and film.

Exhibition design: Heatherwick Studio
Graphic Design: Morse Studio
Film: Tapio Snellman
Commissioner: British Council / Vicky Richardson