Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum, a new exhibition at London's Design Museum, showcases the work of 15 designers — among which Ron Arad, Maarten Baas, rAndom International, Yves Béhar, Troika and Fredrikson Stallard — exploring, in the medium of crystal, the future of memory in the digital age.

The public is invited to share memories and be a part of the exhibition by tweeting or texting Ron Arad's installation Lolita from anywhere in the world — sending messages that travel around the crystal using LED technology.

"With the demise of the analogue era our relationship and connection with personal memory, photographs, diaries, letters, time and ephemera is changing," states Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum. "This exhibition questions our relationship with the changing world. It seems all too easy to lose connection with the tangible and the real, as we move ever faster through a digital age where memory and the personal possessions we once held so highly are now online, or gone in an instant."

Digital Crystal debates the changing nature of our relationship with objects over time. In addition to specially commissioned pieces by a new generation of designers, the exhibition will also feature a select number of updated works from the Swarovski archives.

Through 13 January 2012
Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum
Design Museum
28 Shad Thames, London