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Digital Design Weekend 2026
Join artists and designers for a weekend of free workshops, immersive experiences and demonstrations exploring the intersection of art, design and technology
Every year, Digital Design Weekend celebrates contemporary digital art and design cultures. This year’s edition explores how creative technologies are reshaping our relationships with ecology, care and community, while questioning our changing relationship with AI.
Through 30 installations, workshops, talks and demonstrations, artists and designers invite us to imagine more responsible and resilient digital futures.
Drop-in and workshops:
- Arcade social: play and experiement with our showcase of collaborative games
- Fabric synthesiser building with Lia Mice
- Glyph Yourself with Jane Lee
- Live coding algorithmic music with Nadezhda Khalid
- Making compost-based bio-batteries for computing with Shinji Toya
- Step into the Wild House with the University of Brighton
- Visual live coding with Mike Cook
- 3 Ns and 1 M with The Computer Arts Society
Show & Tell + Installations
- Large Language Machine by Nathan David Smith
- LEDon by Andrea Fiorucci
- Microbial Feral Computing with A Compost Computer by Shinji Toya
- Once Upon a Garden: Nadimé's Garden by Linda Dounia
- On the Other Side by Eva Palacios and Iona McEwan
- Please Come Back Tomorrow by Maria Than
- Releasing the Absent Ghosts by Wrench2 Studio
- Soft Cymatics by Lia Mice
- Soul of a Sailor: the Séance by Kasia Molga
- Soothing Sounds by Dr Paulina Yurman
- The Baby Factory is Closed by Deepa Mann-Kler
- The Soil Sounds Back by Emily Stapleton-Jefferis
- The Temple of Crip Futures by Hazel Sealeaf and BOM
- Wind Studies: Air as Material by Shanti Bell
Universities Showcase
Works by students from the Royal College of Art, MA Information Experience Design:
- Before the Breath Arrives by Kimia Ghofrani
- Material Resonance Field by Yuyuan Zhu
- Not Yet Sayable: Latent Homes by Arrddon
- Tasting Tomorrow by Jungmin Yoon
Works by students from Goldsmiths University Computational Arts programme:
- An Effort by Rafa Roeder
- Rain Bell by Qiang Hei
- Specimen 06: Anomalous Micro-Life by Zhenzhen Xie
- What Do We See With Our Eyes Closed by Ana Domingues
Through 30 installations, workshops, talks and demonstrations, artists and designers invite us to imagine more responsible and resilient digital futures.
Drop-in and workshops:
- Arcade social: play and experiement with our showcase of collaborative games
- Fabric synthesiser building with Lia Mice
- Glyph Yourself with Jane Lee
- Live coding algorithmic music with Nadezhda Khalid
- Making compost-based bio-batteries for computing with Shinji Toya
- Step into the Wild House with the University of Brighton
- Visual live coding with Mike Cook
- 3 Ns and 1 M with The Computer Arts Society
Show & Tell + Installations
- Large Language Machine by Nathan David Smith
- LEDon by Andrea Fiorucci
- Microbial Feral Computing with A Compost Computer by Shinji Toya
- Once Upon a Garden: Nadimé's Garden by Linda Dounia
- On the Other Side by Eva Palacios and Iona McEwan
- Please Come Back Tomorrow by Maria Than
- Releasing the Absent Ghosts by Wrench2 Studio
- Soft Cymatics by Lia Mice
- Soul of a Sailor: the Séance by Kasia Molga
- Soothing Sounds by Dr Paulina Yurman
- The Baby Factory is Closed by Deepa Mann-Kler
- The Soil Sounds Back by Emily Stapleton-Jefferis
- The Temple of Crip Futures by Hazel Sealeaf and BOM
- Wind Studies: Air as Material by Shanti Bell
Universities Showcase
Works by students from the Royal College of Art, MA Information Experience Design:
- Before the Breath Arrives by Kimia Ghofrani
- Material Resonance Field by Yuyuan Zhu
- Not Yet Sayable: Latent Homes by Arrddon
- Tasting Tomorrow by Jungmin Yoon
Works by students from Goldsmiths University Computational Arts programme:
- An Effort by Rafa Roeder
- Rain Bell by Qiang Hei
- Specimen 06: Anomalous Micro-Life by Zhenzhen Xie
- What Do We See With Our Eyes Closed by Ana Domingues
Screening:
- Digital Art Screening: The 2026 Lumen Prize
Talks and meetups:
- The Age of Responsibility: Rethinking Digital Futures with The Lumen Prize
- Creative Technology Social: Voices from the London community
Digital arts tours
- Digital Bodies
- Recombinations & Simulations
- Art of drawing machines
- From plotter to p5.js
Talks and meetups:
- The Age of Responsibility: Rethinking Digital Futures with The Lumen Prize
- Creative Technology Social: Voices from the London community
Digital arts tours
- Digital Bodies
- Recombinations & Simulations
- Art of drawing machines
- From plotter to p5.js
All events are free. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis unless stated otherwise. Last entry is 30 minutes before event closing time. Most events are suitable for all ages. Please note if any of the activations reaches capacity, we will allow access on a one-in, one-out basis. If you have any access requirements, please let us know in advance by emailing accessibility@vam.ac.uk
Membership
V&A Members enjoy free and unlimited entry to all exhibitions, a sought-after programme of Members' events, use of our Members' Rooms, at least 10% off in V&A shops, and much more.
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Header image: Linda Dounia - Once Upon A Garden: Nadimé's Garden