Lang Toon’s Luisa is V&A design winner
Museum time capsule
A Strath student has been selected to design a time capsule for the V&A Museum of Design in Dundee.
Luisa Geddes from The Community School of Auchterarder won a major national competition to design the capsule to celebrate the opening of the City of Discovery’s new riverside museum.
Luisa’s creative design fitted the brief for the weatherproof capsule, and she was chosen by an expert panel chaired by Ian Callum, Jaguar’s Director of Design to receive a week’s work experience at Jaguar where she will see her design adapted for manufacture.
Luisa said: “It’s amazing, I can’t quite believe it. I wanted to design something the public could interact with in the day and night.
“I’m so excited to see how my design will be manufactured by Jaguar, and to spend a week with Jaguar, to see all the cars and how they work.”
Ian Callum, Jaguar Director of Design, said: “What struck us all about Luisa was her sense of professional presentation and clarity in explanation. She had a clear understanding of what she was trying to do, and the message she was trying to create in the sculpture she’d designed.
“I have no doubt whatsoever that the end result would be appealing to us as a team of judges, and also to the public. The overall standard of the pupils’ submissions was extremely high. That made judging very difficult and it took us a long time to get down to the final decision.”
Philip Long, director of V&A Dundee, said: “The standard of designs we’ve seen today for the new time capsule to be built in the grounds of V&A Dundee has been exceptional.
“Particular congratulations go to Luisa whose design stood out as the strongest response to the brief, showcasing her own creativity, meeting the strict criteria for a time capsule that must last for 50 years, and engaging with the design excellence of Jaguar and V&A Dundee.”
Luisa’s time capsule will be unveiled in 2018, ahead of V&A Dundee opening to the public later that year.