London Design Festival announces projects that are set to captivate design enthusiasts and city explorers and offer visitors journeys of discovery across the capital. The Festival also announces details of this year’s Global Design Forum, the curated thought leadership programme supported by SAP.
London Design Festival (16 – 24 September 2023) announces projects that will capture the capital’s vibrant design spirit and offer immersive journeys of movement and discovery across eras, neighbourhoods, and artistic visions.
The Festival’s automotive partner MINI and acclaimed artist Morag Myerscough will present Nice to Meet You Again, an immersive installation that envisions the fusion of tradition and technology. Additionally, Design Trail: Daydreaming on the King’s Road, supported by Cadogan and the King’s Road Partnership, will offer an insightful journey through the history and design, fashion and cinema heritage of the iconic King’s Road and its surrounding Chelsea neighbourhood. As an indispensable guide to navigating the Festival’s diverse programme, the LDF Mobile Guide, available to download for free on Bloomberg Connects, will provide visitors with an innovative way to plan their visits and delve deeper into the Festival’s events and projects from their devices. The Global Design Forum will return this September, bringing together creative leaders and innovators to discuss the most pressing topics in design from systems thinking and AI to diversifying design and designing for extreme change. Alongside Headline Partner SAP the event is supported by Pearlfisher, Istituto Europeo di Design and University of the Arts London.
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Nice to Meet You Again by Morag Myerscough and MINI
Award-winning artist, Morag Myerscough, known for her bold and vibrant style and automotive brand MINI will present Nice to Meet You Again, an immersive installation that transforms Shoreditch Electric Light Station from 16 to 19 September into an urban oasis that offers a vivid glimpse into MINI’s future vision.
Visitors will be invited to dive into a realm where tradition seamlessly intertwines with technology. Drawing inspiration from her early adoption of electric vehicles, Myerscough envisions a future where the sensory experiences of cities are transformed by the advent of electric mobility. The installation will celebrate MINI’s latest vehicles including the new all electric MINI Cooper, while weaving an aspirational and enchanting tapestry of what a greener and more harmonious urban environment could look like. Visitors will be invited to explore a multi-sensory world, where avian sounds and natural scents harmonise to create an enchanting atmosphere. As MINI charts its course toward becoming an all-electric brand by 2030, the installation invites you to imagine a future where streets are shared, noise is replaced by melodies of nature, and a sense of community interlaces with renewable values. Explore this vibrant testament to unity, transformation, and a shared vision for an electric urban landscape.
Global Design Forum
Global Design Forum is London Design Festival’s curated thought leadership programme, celebrating design and the minds shaping its future. Hosted at the V&A, the programme will bring together creative leaders and innovators to discuss the most pressing topics in design. This year’s programme features speakers spanning diverse disciplines who will share fresh perspectives on how design can be more accessible, inclusive, sustainable, and drive positive change.
Featured speakers include: Alon Schwabe & Daniel Fernández Pascual from Cooking Sections; Deep K Kailey from Without Shape Without Form; Dominique Petit-Frère from Limbo Accra; Henna Burney from Atelier Luma; Insiya Jafferjee from Shellworks; Shawn Adams from POoR Collective; Simone Brewster; Sophie Maxwell from Pearlfisher; Yinka Ilori; Yuri Suzuki from Pentagram; and Zongbo Jiang from The Sarabande Foundation.
Yinka Ilori
A day of talks on Transdisciplinary Design through theory, education and practice will be supported by Istituto Europeo di Design and University of the Arts London. Speakers will include: Caroline Till from Franklin Till; Chris Laing from Deaf Architecture Front; Jason Holley from Universal Design Studio; Joycelyn Longdon from Climate in Colour; Moritz Waldemeyer; and Todd Eckert from Tin Drum. From UAL: Laura Knight from MA Communicating Complexity, CSM and Tiffany Radmore, Collaborative Unit Coordinator at LCF; From IED: the Dean Riccardo Balbo and Angela Rui, design curator and researcher with Lowie Vermeersch, MA in Transdisciplinary Design course leader and co-founder of Granstudio. Dr Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian from International Space Orchestra, and University of the Underground will present a keynote.
Nelly Ben
A day dedicated to Design Intelligence, exploring solutions for future positive living; harnessing the possibilities of AI and adapting to extreme change will be supported and co-curated by Pearlfisher. Speakers will include: Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg; Ali Eslami from Google DeepMind; Ben Ditto from Dazed Beauty and Ditto Publishing; Kadine James from Artificial Rome; Stuart Wood from Heatherwick Studio; Suhair Khan from Open Ended Design and Taeyoung Yoon from Snøhetta. The day will also feature Keynotes by Jonathan Ford from Pearlfisher; and Yves Behar from Fuse Project.
All Global Design Forum sessions will take place at the V&A’s Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre. The event is supported by Headline Partner SAP, alongside Pearlfisher, Istituto Europeo di Design and University of the Arts London. Tickets and the full programme are available at globaldesignforum.com
Design Trail: Daydreaming on the King’s Road
The Trail invites you to walk in the footsteps of fashion mavericks like Vivienne Westwood, who left an indelible mark on the street’s creative legacy, imagine the echoes of Mick Jagger’s footsteps, alongside the likes of Terrance Conran and the Beatles. From the swinging 1960s to the present day, this trail unveils the hidden stories behind the facades of buildings and landmarks. Visitors will discover the evolution of residential areas, stores, clubs, and art spaces, as they delve into the design, fashion and cinema heritage that defines the King’s Road’s unique character.
LDF Mobile Guide on Bloomberg Connects
London Design FestivalEstablished in 2003 by Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE, London Design Festival celebrates and promotes London as the design capital of the world. London Design Festival has since earned the reputation as a key calendar moment of London’s autumn creative season, alongside London Fashion Week, Frieze Art Fair and the London Film Festival, attracting the greatest thinkers, practitioners, retailers and educators to the capital, in a citywide celebration.
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