Designers in Residence invited this year young UK based designers to respond to a brief set by Deyan Sudjic, the Director of the Design Museum. For 2014, this theme is disruption. “More than most, ‘disruptive’ is a term whose meaning is dependent on the context,” says Deyan. “It’s conventionally considered almost a bad thing — difficult pupils, bad neighbours, ill-considered town planning — it is now the most sought after quality in a new product.”

London designer and filmmaker Ilona Gaynor disrupts the judicial system, exposing its loopholes to facilitate the staging of an illegal event. Based around a fictional court case in which a National Lottery draw is fixed, Ilona Gaynor presents scripts, props and camera directions that consider how the staging of the courtroom affects how details of a case are relaid to a jury.

Ilona Gaynor is founder of research studio Department of No and teaches digital and media students "how to tell better stories" at Rhode Island School of Design. 



Photography by Luke Hayes