Alice Cicolini curated and produced the exhibition Re-Living Britain for the British Council, the British Embassy and Trade Partners UK.
"Re-Living Britain" launched at the Living Design Centre on October 4th 2001 as part of the prestigious Tokyo Designers Week. The exhibition developed seven themes and concerns that have informed British design over the generations: travel, childhood and play, nature, suppressed eroticism, industrial process, family pets and memory and emotion. Tatsuya Kanemura designed the exhibition with graphic design by Alexis Burgess.
Writing at the time, Alice Cicolini suggested, "contemporary British design combines a fascination with materials and manufacture with an awareness of the power of the object to express and evoke memory. In some cases, this impression of material memory centres on the expression of the personal; in others, it articulates an awareness of national identity that manifests itself through humour and a wry sense of irony. Many of the concerns that occupied the British consciousness in the Victorian period continue to influence contemporary design. Re-Living Britain addresses these concerns and the expression of contemporary national identity at the heart of the British interior."