Exhibition: London Design Biennale

London Design Biennale is an opportunity to see world leading innovation and creativity from participants across the globe, inspiring audiences with design.

The artistic director for this year’s Biennale is Nieuwe Instituut, the Dutch national museum and institute for architecture, design, and culture led by the General Director Aric Chen.

The Biennale will take visitors on a sensory journey around Somerset House with over 40 installations. Visitors can:

See Ai-Da Robot showcase her unique ability to design objects, as collaboration between AI technology and creativity is explored

Hear the Afro-Peruvian percussion instrument, the ‘Cajón’ which has become the traditional instrument of flamenco music in Spain and Peru’s collaboration on historic design practices

Walk through a street market as the Indian pavilion creates an Indian ‘chowk’ – a marketplace on the River Terrace

Enter a traditional Korean garden via VR as South Korea uses Mixed Reality to bridge the gap between past and future

Wander through Malta’s adaptation of a ‘village square’ in its large-scale installation composed of fabrics using traditional Phoenician-Maltese dyes

Weave with Abu Dhabi’s traditional Al-Sadu technique practiced by Bedouin women in the United Arab Emirates

Discover more from all around the world including new confirmed exhibitors: Italy, Denmark, and Austria

New to the Biennale this year, is the Eureka initiative, which will give a platform to the UK’s leading research centres and universities to display their solutions to our world’s issues and spotlight the creative richness and innovative talent of our world’s future problem solvers. Exhibitors announced so far are, Canterbury Christ Church University; Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Cambridge University; the Design Age Institute at the Royal College of Art; Glasgow School of Art; King’s College London; Kingston University; Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University; the UK’s National Centre for Ageing (NICA); University of Strathclyde; University of the Arts London.

Discover the history of British amusement arcades with Canterbury Christ Church University’s digital recreation of two 1980s British arcades on a vintage arcade machine

Travel across time with the National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA)’s whose interactive installation, Flip the Script, rethinks what growing older means by inviting visitors to shape how you age