Karen Richmond

British Council 

Design Explore <> Morocco

• Educational Design Consultant for: British Council UK/Morocco
• Developed and directed an 18-month design education project with Evonne Mckenzie and Farah Fawzi, focusing on Moroccan small-scale manufacturing, economic resilience, traditional craft and contemporary design. Design Explore involved the creation of new products and the promotion of young Moroccan designs for retail.
• The project was supported by workshops from Fabien Cappello, Harry Richardson, Studio Silo, Thorsten Van Elten, Jemma Ooi, Oscar Siaz. Exhibition catalogue: Hato, catalogue stand Peter Marigold.
• Moroccan designers: Meryem Abouloufafa, Ramia Belaadel, Khalid El Bastrioui, Achraf El Kouhen, Karima Elkhider, Mehdi Ghinati, Salaheddine Jbari.
• Joseph Ouchen – photographer, fashion blogger, creative thinker and big dreamer from Casablanca (Morocco).
• British Council
• DESIGN <> EXPLORE
• Design Explore Training for artisans

Craft Lab

Workshop in collaboration with Fabiane Lee-Perrella of  Flour Studios

Commissioned by the Craft Council’s Collect Art Fair 

Introducing hands-on dip coating to visitors

London Universities International Partnership (LUIP)

Extended Arms presents the works of Indian art and design graduates,
educated in London at four of London’s premier art schools –
Goldsmiths University of London, Kingston University, Royal College of Art
and University of the Arts London.

The exhibition celebrates the diversity and range of young creatives living
and working in India today. The practitioners were selected for their
enquiring and experimental approach combined with their eagerness
to exchange ideas and develop new ways of thinking and making.
The exhibits range from fashion to fine art and textiles to typography;
all of which share clarity of vision, a sensitivity to materials and an
attention to detail. The considered nature with which exhibitors have
combined traditions of making with contemporary technology and socially
engaged practice is honoured within this exhibition.

Karen Richmond MA RCA

Beijing<>London, Design<>Craft Programme

Commissioned by NDRC Beijing

Design and Creative Lead for a 6-day educational programme for The China Fashion Association’s visit to London, which introduced modern models of small-scale urban luxury/craft production in the UK to 33 master artisans, government officials, fashion experts, and economic reform experts from NDRC Beijing. 

An educational programme built around workshops, lectures and visits to  UAL, V&A, Cockpit Arts and British Council.  In 2012 we were invited to meet with cultural officials and tour six small-scale factories in central Beijing.Supported by Tim Parsons, V&A education, British Council, Cockpit Arts, UAL Special Collections.

Festival of Britain 60th Anniversary Celebration London 

Commission to design and make 600 commemorative plates in collaboration with Our Flour Studio . People ‘in love’  were invited to the Royal Festival Hall to have their portraits taken, on the day of the Royal Wedding (William & Kate) . Fabiane and Karen listened as people spoke about how they first met, what it was to be newly in love, what it felt like to have been together for 72years! These stories are the work and the plates celebrate this.

The ‘Love Plates’ were exhibited at the ground level entrance of the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the People of Britain, Avenue of Portraits as part of the Festival of Britain 60th Anniversary celebrations at the Southbank Centre, London 2011, afterwards to be hung in the homes of the ‘people in love’.