In November 2015, Melanie Bowles and I returned to the Victoria and Albert Museum with The People’s Print to present a participatory design workshop for the museum’s Friday Late programme, alongside its major exhibition The Fabric of India.
Working with designs by our collaborator Nasima Rumi Begum, we invited visitors to create their own textile compositions using cut-out imagery and heat-transfer printing. Participants selected and arranged elements from Nasima’s collaged drawings before heat-pressing their designs onto tote bags, creating individual objects to take home.
It was an extraordinary evening. The museum was packed with visitors and our workshop attracted a continuous stream of enthusiastic participants. There was a wonderful energy in the room as people experimented with colour, composition and pattern, discovering how quickly a simple arrangement of shapes could become something personal.
This was precisely what Melanie and I had set out to achieve with The People’s Print: to make design accessible through participation, bringing together artistic expertise, digital and traditional processes, and the creative contributions of the public…
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