1. DESIGN VENTURA

2. Placing design skills in a real world, business context
via a user-led design challenge. Students compete for the chance to design a product that will be
sold in the Design Museum
Shop.
Design Ventura is a national competition for secondary schools. It aims to give young people the opportunity to develop creative, enterprise and transferrable employability skills that they can use in life in and beyond school.

3. PROJECT AIMS Curriculum relevant project in real world context
Respond to a live brief
Increase skills, confidence and ambition of young people
Raise aspirations
Bringing partnerships between learners, industry and museum
Real world context of working to a live brief for a real context – The Design Museum Shop. With the winning product made and sold
Working in teams and celebrating success
Live activities and online resources are supported by industry professionals from design and business

4. now at the start of the 8th year of the project:
Over 47,000 students
1200 school groups from 700 school
131 volunteers from Deutsche Bank
161 Design volunteers
567 Teachers trained through CPD
0ver £7,500 raised for charity

5. 700 schools have participated in Design Ventura since 2010

6. SUPPORT FOR RUNNING THE PROGRAMME
CPD for teachers to extend their design practice. This can count towards credits for formal accreditation via the via Goldsmith’s Design Education MA.
Experts Schools are supported by a community of business and design experts
Visits and workshop State schools can come to the museum and participate workshop (first come first served basis)
Website New website and free online resources; they can run the project at their own pace.
Handling Collections - We provide a small sample of objects from the museum’s shop to help inform ideas to all teachers that attend a CPD session.
Participation in Design Ventura and all supporting activities and resources are free to state schools

7. THE DESIGN VENTURA BRIEF
Create a well-designed product to sell in the Design Museum Shop, that will retail at around £10
Winners see their
idea made and on
sale in the Design
Museum Shop

8. KEY DATES
July – August – Free Teacher CPD at the Design Museum and online
18 September - 20 October - we offer free workshops and visits to the Design Museum (Students get the chance to learn directly from design and business professionals in these sessions)
15 November - submission deadline for entries
8 December - Pitching event
February Celebration Event
February – March exhibition of top ten entries at the Design Museum

9. MUSEUM WORKSHOPS Supported by a volunteer industry expert
Up to 30 students per workshop
Led by a museum educator.

10. PITCHING EVENT
The top ten state school teams will be invited to the Design Museum to pitch their idea to a panel of expert judges, including designer Sebastian Conran and the director of the Design Museum.

11. CELEBRATION EVENT
The winners are announced at an awards evening in February 2018 and an exhibition of the top ten entries goes on public display at the Design Museum

12. PRODUCT LAUNCH
The winning team will work with professional designers to develop their product and it will go on sale at the Design Museum in the summer. All proceeds from the sale of the winning product will go to a charity of the students’ choice.

13. Web: ventura.designmuseum.org Twitter: @DesignVentura
GET IN TOUCH
Ventura Team:
Emilie or Catherine
Web: ventura.designmuseum.org