Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has said his forthcoming collection-based exhibition at the Design Museum in London tells more of a story about the past and present than any antique. Hundreds of thousands of objects, which have been collected by Weiwei since the 1990s as part of his ongoing fascination with artefacts and traditional craftsmanship, will be at the heart of the exhibition in a series of five expansive “fields” which put the objects in the context of demolition and urban development in China. At the launch of the exhibition titled Ai Weiwei: Making Sense, the contemporary artist said: “C…