days out Archives - Smudgetikka

Weird Sensation Feels Good opens today at The Design Museum in London’s Kensington High St. Subtitled The World of ASMR, this is the UK’s first ever exhibition on ASMR which stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Inducing tingles, tranquility, deep calm and euphoria, this is the design story of an evolving internet sensation through a series of audio, visual and tactile works. The first appearance was around 2009 and the ...

Moving to Mars – opens today at The Design Museum in London exploring how sending humans to Mars is not just a scientific frontier but a design challenge as well. There’s a surprising amount of kid friendly spaces here as well as all the tech details to keep fathers happy. For me the most striking part is a vast triple screen film installation where a moulded floor replicates ...

Kew Gardens Temperate House renovation opens on Saturday the 5th May to the public. The largest Victorian glasshouse in the world, this beautiful restoration of the original built between 1859 and 1899 has taken 4 years and cost a staggering £41 million to completion partly funded by the National Lottery but also by private and commercial donations. Everything has been reconditioned or replaced with exacting standards, the pavilion had ...