The Global Design Forum is the Festival’s annual programme of talks and discussions exploring the role of design in a sustainable and prosperous future.

Returning for a fourth year to the V&A with a series of Masterclasses, the 2015 Forum will focus on profiling the industry’s pivotal figures who will each discuss their work against the background of a particular topic.

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Morag Myerscough in conversation with Patrick Burgoyne

Morag Myerscough, the multi award-winning founder of Studio Myerscough, will discuss her work. Since setting up Studio Myerscough in 1993, she has brightened up hospital wards, schools and countless public spaces with her projects.

Myerscough’s recent work includes the Temple of Agape installation on London’s Southbank (with Luke Morgan) and work for Barts Health NHS Trust with organisation Vital Arts. Myerscough is currently working on the exhibition design for the new Design Museum, which will open in west London next year.

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About Morag Myerscough

Morag Myerscough's work is characterised by an engaging boldness, creating specific, local responses to each distinct audience that will see and experience the design, using it to create community and build identity. She makes places from spaces that people like to be in, which stimulate and often make you smile.

She creates and curates many different types of work. The eclectic breadth covers the conversion of a train to a café, installations, numerous exhibitions and interpreting buildings. She has designed several exhibits for London’s Design Museum from Archigram to Formula 1 as well as the exterior of the British Pavilion for the 2004 Venice Biennale. She was awarded the contract to create the Design Museum’s permanent exhibition for its new home, one of the UK’s most important new cultural projects. With Cartlidge Levene she designed the wayfinding for the Barbican Centre and continuing their relationship they are currently designing wayfinding for Tate Modern’s new Herzog and De Meuron extension.

Her recent clients range from Zynga in San Francisco to the British Council in Burma. She often works with community groups to develop ideas that reflect the identity of the users, drawing on shared cultural history and heritage of the local area. For the Sorrell Foundation she worked with London teenagers creating a visual narrative for a youth centre based on a poem written by local young people.

Morag established her successful multi-disciplinary company Studio Myerscough in 1993 and founded Supergrouplondon with Luke Morgan in 2010. Being a small, bespoke studio, she often collaborates on projects, pairing with practices as diverse as architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (their collaborations were nominated for the RIBA Stirling Prize) and with poet Lemn Sissay on the Movement Café. In 2002, Morag opened Her House, a gallery/shop which has enabled Morag to curate/design/produce and party.