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Kieran Long

  • Live interview with Kieran Long of ArkDes as part of Virtual Design Festival

    Kieran Long spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation as part of our collaboration with ArkDes for Virtual Design Festival. More

    Sebastian Jordahn | 1 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • "Kamprad is dead, but IKEA has a long way to run"

    IKEA's unstoppable success is testament to the attitude of founder Ingvar Kamprad, a man who never spent money on things his customers couldn't afford, says Kieran Long. More

    Kieran Long | 2 February 2018 | 1 comment
  • Kieran Long appointed director of Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design

    British journalist and curator Kieran Long has been named as the new director of ArkDes, Sweden's national centre for architecture and design. More

    Amy Frearson | 10 February 2017 | 1 comment
  • "It is difficult to feel unreservedly optimistic about the future"

    Opinion: this year's SXSW technology conference may have had Barack Obama as its headliner, but the tone was still surprisingly sombre, says Kieran Long. Are the tech evangelists as worried about the future as the rest of us? More

    Kieran Long | 18 March 2016 | 3 comments
  • "The most important design event in the world is one you've probably never heard of"

    Opinion: the Game Developers Conference is refreshingly free of the superstar egos and the luxury brands that dominate architecture biennales and furniture fairs – and much more significant for the future of design, says Kieran Long. More

    Kieran Long | 19 March 2015 | 1 comment
  • "Holidays bring out the best in designers"

    Opinion: when the creative industries across Europe go offline for the holiday season, the archetypal English country cottage becomes an incubator for problem-solving design brilliance says Kieran Long. More

    Kieran Long | 14 August 2014 | Leave a comment
  • "Elements makes you unutterably sad for Koolhaas and what he thinks architecture is"

    Opinion: by excluding architects and focusing on research for this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas has given the world an insight into what he thinks about architecture. The result is less than encouraging, says Kieran Long. More

    Kieran Long | 12 June 2014 | 28 comments
  • "Design, fashion and architecture hold something mysterious in the objects they produce"

    Opinion: one of Soviet-era Riga's most notorious buildings is now home to an exemplary exhibition that shows how design can be used to tell profound stories about complex political and social histories, says Kieran Long.  More

    Kieran Long | 22 May 2014 | Leave a comment
  • "There is without doubt institutional prejudice in the furniture industry"

    Opinion: there's no excuse for excluding women from the design conversation in Milan, says Kieran Long who offers a ready-made Rolodex for a fairer male/female split. More

    Kieran Long | 10 April 2014 | 14 comments
  • "We cannot absolve ourselves of responsibility for the implications of a project"

    Opinion: in response to Joseph Rykwert's Royal Gold Medal lecture this week, where the critic stressed that all design has political implications, Kieran Long rejects Zaha Hadid's assertion that architects have "nothing to do with the workers" who die on construction sites. More

    Kieran Long | 1 March 2014 | Leave a comment
  • "London's fire station closures represent the inevitable carelessness of contemporary cities"

    Opinion: Kieran Long responds to the recent closure of ten London fire stations, arguing that architecture built for a specific purpose and location is far more valuable to a city's sense of place than generic, pragmatic solutions. More

    Kieran Long | 30 January 2014 | 8 comments
  • V&A acquires Katy Perry false eyelashes as part of new "rapid response collecting" strategy

    News: the architecture and design department at the V&A museum in London has acquired Katy Perry Lashes (pictured) and Primark jeans as part of a new "rapid response" strategy for collecting objects as soon as they become newsworthy, to reflect the changing way fast-moving global events influence society (+ interview). More

    Rose Etherington | 18 December 2013 | 6 comments
  • "We must examine the human cost of objects, not just their semiotic resonances"

    Opinion: Kieran Long argues that while it's fun to be cynical about pop cultural artefacts like Katy Perry Lashes, a recent expose on the conditions in which they're made proves that it's vital for design criticism to move beyond semiotics. More

    Kieran Long | 5 December 2013 | 10 comments
  • "The philanthropic causes of tech billionaires tell us what tomorrow's design challenges will be"

    Opinion: in his latest column, Kieran Long argues that the causes tech billionaires donate their money to "tell us what they are scared of" and what the design challenges of the future are therefore likely to be, and asks whether designers and architects are prepared to go along with these visions. More

    Kieran Long | 11 November 2013 | 6 comments
  • "Product design should do so much more than encourage consumption"

    Opinion: in his latest column, Kieran Long argues that product designers should learn from architects and tackle civic issues like surveillance and security rather than "hide in their studios making something lovely." More

    Kieran Long | 10 October 2013 | 12 comments
  • New immigration rules are "hugely damaging" for design in London

    News: leading figures from London's design institutions have warned that new immigration rules which make it harder for international students to stay in the UK after graduation could be a "disaster" for the city. More

    Rose Etherington | 3 October 2013 | 10 comments
  • "Can these parts go together and kill someone? The answer is yes."

    Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from the UK capital, senior curator at the V&A Kieran Long explains why the London museum has controversially acquired the world's first 3D-printed gun. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More

    Benedict Hobson | 26 September 2013 | 12 comments
  • V&A museum acquires first 3D-printed gun

    London Design Festival 2013: London's V&A Museum has added the world's first 3D-printed gun to its permanent collection and will exhibit it along with four other newly acquired design objects during the London Design Festival. More

    Marcus Fairs | 15 September 2013 | 13 comments
  • "Sinister objects demand attention just as much as beneficial ones"

    Opinion: in the first of his monthly columns for Dezeen, V&A senior curator Kieran Long argues that today's obsession with authorship and celebrity "leads to serious imbalances in the way we see design in the world" and calls for an overhaul of the way design is curated in the twenty-first century. More

    Kieran Long | 12 September 2013 | 2 comments
  • Meet our new Opinion columnists!


    Following the huge success of Sam Jacob’s regular opinion column, we’re proud to announce that four more world-class writers are joining us as columnists: Dan Hill, Alexandra Lange, Kieran Long and Justin McGuirk. More

    Marcus Fairs | 4 September 2013 | 7 comments
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