Big Ideas: Rapid response collecting

Rapid Response Collecting is a new strand to the V&A's
collecting activity - one that is responsive to global events,
situating design in immediate relation to moments of political,
economic and social change. Corinna Gardner explores how an IKEA
toy wolf, a set of Christian Louboutin shoes in five shades of
'nude', the world's first 3D-printed gun, the mobile game, Flappy
Bird, and an all-female LEGO set raise questions of
globalisation, mass manufacture, demography and the law.


Corinna Gardner is curator of contemporary product design at the
Victoria and Albert Museum. Corinna has worked with colleagues to
introduce rapid response collecting as a new strand to the
museum's collecting activities. Corinna is also co-curating the
forthcoming V&A exhibition, All of This Belongs to You,
opening on 1 April 2015.