A pop-up exhibition titled Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass was held in November 2018 at the Design Center of the Department of Industrial Design.

The exhibition resulted from the 2nd brief in the class Materials and Processes in Drawing and Making. The brief was to re-imagine the narrative, themes and motifs from Lewis Carroll’s favourite books, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Alice provides an inexhaustible mine of literary, philosophical, and scientific themes. Carroll adored the unprejudiced and innocent ways that young children approach the world; he wanted to describe how a child sees our adult world, including all of the (in the eyes of a child, silly and arbitrary) rules and social etiquette we have created for ourselves, as well as the ego’s bad habits we develop during our lives.

Working with cardboard, pop-up book engineering and basic electrical circuits, the work invites the viewer to re-imagine key chapters of Alice in the contexts of social, cultural and economic themes that resonate with the CommDe Year 1 student cohort.

Teaching Team: Wittamon Niwattichai, Graham Newman and Eiji Sumi.

Cardboard Sponsored by SCG

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