
© Photos Ai Weiwei Studio
In the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 many children died, often as a result of the poor construction of their schools. They are commemorated in ‘Making Sense,’ Ai Weiwei’s new exhibition at the Design Museum in London: the names of 5,197 of them are printed in red on framed sheets of paper, using hand-carved jade stamps individually made for each one. There is also Rebar and Case, an arrangement of coffin-like seats around a representation in marble, fragile and ghostly, of the steel reinforcement bars whose faulty or insufficient installation contributed to the collapse of the school buildings...[+]