Global Design Forum

GDF returns to the V&A this September.

The Global Design Forum returns from 12-14 September to the V&A South Kensington's Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre.

The forum is guest-curated by Rhiarna Dhaliwal and supported by Programme Partners Bowmore and Sun Media Group, and Session Partners Ithra, FLORA, LEPAS and L-Acoustics.

The theme of this year’s edition is Worlds in Motion. Design is in constant circulation, moving across cultures, disciplines and geographies, and few cities are as shaped by the circulation of people, ideas and cultures as London.

This year’s Global Design Forum programme explores design as a process of exchange – of ideas, cultures and knowledge. Across three days of keynotes, conversations and panels, it brings together leading voices from London and beyond, spanning a range of creative disciplines, to explore how the exchange of ideas catalyses new ways of making and imagining the future.

Highlights include talks from Es Devlin CBE, Anab Jain, Asif Khan MBE, Liam Young and Natalie Melton. The curated talks programming is free to attend.