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The Sorrell Foundation is launching the YOUNGDESIGNCLUB to give pupils and their teachers an exciting new resource to inform and stimulate knowledge and debate about design.

The YOUNGDESIGNCLUB is free to UK primary and secondary schools, to run in lunch breaks or as an after-school activity. Each meeting will focus on a piece of design from any discipline, providing a growing menu of over 100 design stories. They will be structured around presentations and supported by flexible resources, including print, film and audio materials and PowerPoint slides (available as downloads). This will be followed by a discussion, and the pupil members will have the opportunity to produce their own crit in response, the best of which will be published by the YOUNGDESIGNCLUB. There will also be an annual awards ceremony at Somerset House, London.

Teachers who run a YOUNGDESIGNCLUB will have the opportunity to arrange a visit to the Young Design Centre at Somerset House, London, where pupil members will benefit from an interactive experience about design and how it affects young people’s lives. Their visit will include an exhibition tour and film workshops, as well as the option to visit London’s South Bank and explore the Royal festival Hall, British Film Institute, London Eye or Tate Modern.

Inspiring young people to develop their skills as clients, consumers and critics of design, and to open up pathways into the creative industries, has never been more important. This is the aim of the YOUNGDESIGNCLUB.

Are you a teacher interested in running the YOUNGDESIGNCLUB?
To register your interest, please complete our online form by following the link below. The club will begin in January 2011 and the Sorrell Foundation will contact you in September with detailed information.

SIGN UP TO JOIN THE YOUNGDESIGNCLUB !

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