A two days workshop led Daniel Charny and Tord Boontje of the Royal College of Art provided an opportunity for participants to work intensively on design processes. This one off workshop was part of the events and education programme around Ron Arad’s exhibition Restless at the Barbican.

Daniel Charny was invited to give a talk about curating contemporary design at Barcelona’s Industrial Design Association based in the beautiful FAD complex by the MACBA. Chaired by Dr. Viviana Narotzky of ADI FAD, Charny reviewed his experience from recent years and presented current thoughts of working in the field of curating contemporary design using examples from projects involving Spanish designers in shows such as the group show Conversational Spanish, Stage by Jaime Hayon, Tenerife Design Festival and most recently the solo show of Javier Mariscal – Drawing Life for the Design Museum London. PODCAST OF TALK

DRAWING LIFE at the Design Museum is a comprehensive review and unique installation of Javier Mariscals work.  Curator Daniel Charny walks through the exhibition with Mariscal as they discuss the various elements of the show, design process and passion for Drawing in this podcast produced by Marcus Fairs for Dezeen

Daniel Charny spoke at the 2009 Hidden Art Forum Growing Through Recession. The forum brings together specialist speakers to present and discuss opportunities within the design industry and ways of accessing them. Daniel spoke in the panel discussion on Prototypes, using the Aram Gallery’s exhibition series ‘Prototypes and Experiments’ as an example of their display.

Why design more chairs? was one of the key questions raised while chairing a talk at the Barbican about the relationship designers have to chairs. This talk was part of the education programme around the Hans Schabus exhibition, in which he wall-mounted on to the impressive curve gallery hundreds of chairs into a seating layout of a commercial plane. The talk offered the chance to meet art historian Margit Emesz who wrote the text accompanying the exhibition; Tim Oldman designer that has made his way to management and is currently the Design Director of Vitra UK and Martino Gamper designer of the 100 Chairs in 100 days and winner of the Design Museums Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Furniture award last month.