NCCD was transformed into a design studio in summer 2018 when design duo NEON, Mark Nixon and Viliina Koivisto, took over as Designers in Residence and invited you to come and be part of In the Studio.

This five year retrospective of NEON’s artistic practice demystifies the design process behind their major projects including Pump House Pavilion, The Wind Cathedral and NEON x Seoul Shoe Street. The residency formed part of Ridges & Furrows, a project which brought NEON to Sleaford in the months prior to the exhibition in order, to look at the town’s changing built environment through creative activities and interventions.

NEON continued their research using the exhibition as a test-bed to cultivate new ideas for NCCD and a new temporary artwork for Sleaford, developed with the community, for the community.