22 October 2010

Final call for feedback on V&A at Dundee

The public exhibition of designs for the V&A at Dundee has drawn a phenomenal response with over 10,000 people visiting the University of Abertay Dundee library to see the architects’ models and thousands more viewing them on the dedicated website.

The jury panel who will make a decision on which design team is chosen have given a firm commitment to ensuring that the public voice is taken into account and to that end thousands of feedback forms have already been collected.

Now there are only six days left for the public to register their views. With the jury panel set to meet at the end of October, gathering of feedback forms will close at the end of the day on Wednesday October 27th.

'We have been overwhelmed by the public response to the exhibition, and are hugely thankful to everyone who has come along to see the models and make their views known,' said Judith Barnard, exhibition team leader for V&A at Dundee.

'The exhibition has clearly provoked a great amount of debate and there has been a real buzz around it ever since it opened. We are still welcoming hundreds of people of all ages every day and the vast majority of them are still taking the time to fill in the feedback form, which is fantastic.

'We are in the process of gathering all of that information and analysing it so that a proper record of the public view can be put before the jury panel. To enable us to do that we need to have a cut-off point, so we are asking anyone who still wishes to register their feedback to do so by 5pm on Wednesday.

'We are keen to get as many views as possible so would urge people to either come and see the exhibition at the Abertay University library in Bell Street or visit the website at www.vandaatdundee.com.'

Opening hours for the exhibition are:
Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri - 9am to 9pm
Wed - 9am to 5 pm
Sat, Sun - 10am to 5 pm

Admission is free.

The exhibition will remain open after Wednesday’s cut-off point for feedback so that people can continue to view the models. A decision on the winning design team is expected in early November.

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Roddy Isles
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University of Dundee
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