Talk given at the 'Out of the Box and Dusted Down: Foraging and Findings' Seminar

In search of Neher: notes from a presentation A few days before I came to the archive a theatre director called Annie Castledine phoned me after many years silence, Annie had been a significant person in my early career as a designer, instrumental in developing my sense of design as an environment that responded to and developed the space that it inhabited. The abiding memory I have of Annie is her constant quoting of fragments of Brecht‟s poems, notably those that related to design or to his relationship with his designer, Casper Neher. “That blue piece of washing, My friend would have placed it better”