{"id":5422,"date":"2017-02-14T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2018-05-06T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:07:25","slug":"ben-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/ben-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7192\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5422-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/benevans.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/benevans.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/benevans.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5434 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/beopenportrait.jpeg?resize=300%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/beopenportrait.jpeg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/beopenportrait.jpeg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Ben Evans is the Director of the London Design Festival, which he co-founded with Sir John Sorrell in 2003. The Festival celebrates and promotes London as the design capital of the world and has inspired similar events in many international cities. It is an annual event involving 300 partner organisations and attracts over 600,000 individual visits. As well as managing the Festival Ben initiates, commissions and curates projects for the event including an annual residency in the V&amp;A museum. In 2016 he added a new activity \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londondesignbiennale.com\/\">The London Design Biennale<\/a> \u2013 where 37 countries presented design installations to a theme.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2008 he has been a governor of the University of the Arts London and is passionate about art &amp; design education. He is also a member of the Mayor\u2019s Cultural Strategy Advisory Group. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary degree from the Royal College of Art and graduated there in 1989.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5437\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5437\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ERB_2011_textile-field_09.jpg?resize=638%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"638\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ERB_2011_textile-field_09.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ERB_2011_textile-field_09.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Textile Field by the Bouroullec Brothers and shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5436\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5436\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13556-90-1.jpeg?resize=628%2C628&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13556-90-1.jpeg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13556-90-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"s1\">David Chipperfield \u2018Two Lines\u2019 outside the Royal Festival Hall<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/benevans.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listBen Evans is the Director of the London Design Festival, which he co-founded with Sir John Sorrell in 2003. 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