Academy Talks Design: Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball

Academy Talks Design is an open lecture series that lets leading international practitioners share perspectives, critical insights, and approaches to contemporary design. Open to all, the talks offer a rare opportunity to engage with a broad range of influential voices shaping design practice.

Through their pioneering concept of Design Poetics, Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball invite us to see design differently. Discover how objects can question, illuminate and reinterpret the cultural ideas that shape everyday life. 

Naylor and Ball design conceptual artefacts, which both illuminate and question design culture. They call this activity 'Design Poetics'. Design Poetics forms an experimental, continuously evolving series of objects and collections, which act as commentaries and contemplations on the cultures of Modernism, Postmodernism and contemporary design. Naylor and Ball are authors of ‘Form Follows Idea: An introduction to Design Poetics.