Launching for 17 weeks on 13 February, the exhibition will be housed in the Travelling Gallery, a custom-built, mobile contemporary gallery inside a branded bus. A total of 78 venues will be visited, including schools, colleges, museums, community centres and libraries. The final stop planned for the tour is the V&A Museum in London.
The tour aims to meet with people in rural Scotland, such as Harris, Elgin and Galashiels, alongside the urban destinations of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen. It will take exhibits, designers and the V&A Dundee team across the country to connect communities with Scotland’s design heritage.
Alongside the exhibition, V&A Dundee is working with Dundee-based developer eeGeo to develop a new mobile app. Design Scotland will use bespoke 3D-mapping technology to virtually track the tour, highlight stories of Scotland’s design heritage across the last 300 years and allow users to pin their favourite Scottish designers, design icons and objects to the map.
Sarah Saunders, head of learning and engagement for V&A Dundee, said: "We are delighted to be able to announce details of Design in Motion. It’s an incredibly ambitious project, but one that we feel underlines the scope and scale of the new museum, and really allows us to set out our stall as a new national institution
"The designers in this exhibition have used digital technologies as a means of reconstructing our heritage, visualising the unseen, and creating new forms. There are also some shining examples of how today’s designers are using the innovations of the past to inspire the designs of the future."
V&A Dundee is expected to open to the public in 2017.
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