London Design Festival 2019

Over September 2019 we transformed iconic spaces across the museum with specially-commissioned projects by leading international designers and hosted an inspirational line up of talks, debates, daily tours and workshops.

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London Design Festival 2019

Ran from 14 September 2019 to 22 September 2019 at South Kensington

Festival trailer

Past events

Drop-in Design: September 2019

Robin Hood Gardens

Kengo Kuma

Affinity in Autonomy

Bamboo (竹) Ring: Weaving into Lightness

Global Design Forum

Legacy

Avalanche

Bamboo Futures

(UN)WOVEN

Chaos Constructions

Collective Design School

Kalostasis

Black Masking Culture

Non-Pavilion

Sea Things

Sacred Geometry

Repair-Making and the Museum

This Much I'm Worth

Tour: London Design Festival at the V&A

Transforming Training: Contemporary British Silversmiths

Tour: Theatre & Performance Archives

Central Square - Unleashing Creativity in a Neuro-inclusive Workplace

Tour: Behind the scenes at the V&A’s Clothworkers’ Centre

Tours: Blythe House Highlights

London Design Festival 2019 - Curator Tour 1

London Design Festival 2019 - Curator Tour 2

Collective Design School: Teaching the Future

Jedd Novatt in conversation with Melissa Hamnett

CreateInsights: Design Thinking

Digital Design Weekend 2019

Crafting Family Folklore: How to create a game about your own family history (6 -12 years)

Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age - In partnership with Culture in Crisis

Fading Memories

Gender history tour of the V&A's early modern objects

Future of Podcasting with BBC Research & Development

Amplifying unheard voices

BioTRANSlab: Hacking science for a Transfeminist narrative

Digital Design, Empathy and Storytelling

Capturing Digital Art and Performance

Collecting Digital and Intangible Objects

The Digital Self

In Conversation with Forensic Architecture: Reconstructing Yazidi Cultural Heritage

Sea Things

In-depth

Exhibition Road Day of Design

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