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Publication: Design Researchers in Residence 2025/26 MINERAL

This publication features the work of the 2025/26 Design Researchers in Residence. It accompanies an exhibition staged at the Design Museum from June to September 2026. This year's theme, Mineral, interrogates the UK’s intersecting mineral landscapes, focusing on lithium, copper, silica and chalk. Together, the projects ask: Should the ‘green transition’ be sustained through the continued extraction of finite resources? Design Researchers in Residence is Future Observatory’s programme for emerging design researchers hosted at the Design Museum.

Publication: Design Researchers in Residence 2024/25 ARTIFICIAL

This publication features the work of the 2024/25 Design Researchers in Residence. It accompanies an exhibition staged at the Design Museum from June to September 2025. This year's theme, Artificial challenges the boundaries of human-centred thinking. It interrogates the structures, systems and values that have led to generations of human separation from and dominance over nature. Design Researchers in Residence is Future Observatory’s programme for emerging design researchers hosted at the Design Museum.

Publication: Design Researchers in Residence 2021/22 RESTORE

This publication features the work of the 2021/22 Design Researchers in Residence. It accompanies an exhibition staged at the Design Museum from June to September 2022. Throughout their residency at the Design Museum, this year's cohort have been applying a restorative lens to their respective fields and projects. In the fields of design, restoration typically describes the act of fixing or mending an object: a salvaged piece of furniture, a cracked screen, a rusty bicycle. Design Researchers in Residence is Future Observatory’s programme for emerging design researchers hosted at the Design Museum.