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SUMMARY:London Design Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:Soho joins the Map\, China and Japan take centre stage\nLondon Design Festival‘s 24th edition runs from 12 to 20 September 2026. Soho becomes the eleventh district\, joining Bankside\, Brompton\, Chelsea\, Dalston to Stokey\, EC1\, Fleet Street Quarter\, Mayfair\, Park Royal\, Blackhorse Creates and the renamed Shoreditch Design Week. The Mayor of London is Principal Supporter this year\, while Bloomberg Philanthropies continues to back the Festival through the Bloomberg Connects digital guide. The stated theme for 2026 is dialogue – East and West\, past and future\, human and non-human – and it shows most clearly in three projects built around Chinese and Japanese craft. \nDiscover Shoreditch Design Week 2026 \nQuick Facts for London Design Festival 2026\nLondon Design Festival\, London\, September 12-20\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\nSize: 11 Design Districts\, 350\,000+ visitors\nHub: V&A South Kensington\nOther venues: Barbican\, Somerset House\, the Strand\, Wapping\nIn general\, free admission\, some events require paid tickets  \nCheck the complete guide & calendar for opening hours \nVisit londondesignfestival.com for info \nFraming LDF 2026\, Courtesy Pentagram & London Design Festival \nThe Asia Programme\nAt Somerset House\, Chinese media group Sun Media Group presents Reviving Craft — Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Design. It’s the third edition of the exhibition\, after the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2024 and Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan in 2025. Curators Su Dan (Tsinghua University\, Academy of Arts & Design) and Yang Lan (broadcaster\, chair of Sun Media Group) bring together more than sixty Chinese and international artisans under the theme Reflection of the Mind. Sun Media Group is also a Programme Partner of the Global Design Forum this year. \nThe Japanese artisans pair with designers\nCraft x Tech returns for its second edition\, curated by Maria Cristina Didero and founded by Hideki Yoshimoto of design studio Tangent. It pairs craftspeople from Japan’s Tokai region with international designers: Australian designer David Caon with third-generation ceramicist Yohei Ito\, Singapore studio Lanzavecchia + Wai with paper-maker Takanori Senda\, Canadian designer Philippe Malouin with Ando Cloisonne\, a metalwork house founded in 1880. \nDiscover Material Matters 2026 \nCraft x Tech Tokai Project group photo. Photo: Noritoshi Kuroki\, courtesy London Design Festival \nMixZ\, a new platform connecting Asia and the UK\, stages two projects: a Dehua porcelain exhibition at the V&A\, and an installation at the Old Selfridges Hotel on future living through Shenzhen’s design and tech sector\, with several Chinese brands making their UK debut. \nThe Landmark Project\nThe Festival’s Landmark Project\, The Pangolin Shield by Studio Saar and Atelier One\, adds an adjacent reading of the same theme: a bamboo pavilion on the Strand built from Indian police shields and rain shields\, positioned facing the bust of Jawaharlal Nehru outside India’s High Commission. \nDetail of The Pangolin Shield drawing\, courtesy London Design Festival \nOther Special Projects at London Design Festival 2026\nMADE x Barbican launches an interiors collection at the Barbican\, developed from archival research into the estate’s interiors and the work of designer Miriam Howitt. The 23-piece collection covers furniture\, lighting\, textiles and accessories\, available from MADE.COM from August 2026. \nMade x Barbican collection \nAt the V&A\, this year’s edition of V&A x LDF is titled Awakenings\, co-curated by Carrie Chan and Kristian Volsing. The programme spans the museum’s galleries and includes work from Henry Svendsen\, Sam Ghantous\, Andre Williams\, Nina Davies and Albert Yonathan Setyawan\, alongside new commissions from Aziza Kadyri\, Eunjo Lee and V&A Emerging Designer 2026\, Playfool. \nDiscover the Global Design Forum 2026 \nThe Design Museum’s LDF programme includes NIGO: From Japan with Love\, the first retrospective on NIGO\, KENZO’s Artistic Director. The museum’s annual PLATFORM series presents new work by designer and artist Simone Brewster\, with a guided tour by curator Hadeel Eltayeb on 12 September and a panel on design practice and motherhood on 15 September\, featuring Brewster\, Laxmi Hussein\, Emefa Cole and Hettie Judah. \nL-Acoustics presents an immersive sound installation at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station\, built in 1890 and open to the public for the first time in 13 years. \nThe eleven Design Districts\nSoho and Shoreditch Design Week carry the most defined programmes this year. \nSoho joins the Festival for the first time\, led by Informare’s Anna King\, with a programme involving architects\, property developers and branding agencies. \nShoreditch Design Week\, the evolution of the former Shoreditch Design Triangle\, is now the Festival’s largest district: more than sixty showrooms and galleries\, running 15–20 September\, with four main exhibition venues concentrated in the first three days around emerging designers and new materials. \nDiscover Shoreditch Design Week first edition \nMaterial Matters at Unlocked \nThe remaining nine districts — Bankside\, Brompton\, Chelsea\, Dalston to Stokey\, EC1\, Fleet Street Quarter\, Mayfair\, Park Royal and Blackhorse Creates — complete the Festival’s map. \nMedals\, Launch Pad and Identity\nThe London Design Medals will be awarded on 14 September across four categories: London Design Medal\, Lifetime Achievement Medal\, Emerging Design Medal and Design Innovation Medal. Winners are announced in early September. \nPith® sponsors five emerging designers through the Festival’s Launch Pad initiative this year\, giving participants a physical or digital platform plus editorial coverage across LDF and Pith® channels. Applications closed 31 July 2026\, with participants announced in August. \nPentagram\, the Festival’s design partner for more than two decades\, developed this year’s graphic identity under the theme Framing LDF. \nWhy visit\nCombined with a new district\, an enlarged Global Design Forum and the Festival’s usual concentration of museum and gallery programming\, it is one of the few weeks in the calendar where these conversations are staged at this scale in one city. For an Asia-focused audience\, LDF26 offers three exhibitions built directly around Chinese and Japanese craft\, backed by institutional partners on both sides — Sun Media Group\, Tsinghua University\, and a first UK platform for a number of Shenzhen design and tech brands.  \nThe V&A’s Awakenings\, the Design Museum’s NIGO retrospective and MADE’s Barbican collection give the week a strong museum-led draw on their own. Soho’s debut and Shoreditch Design Week’s expanded format also make this an edition worth tracking for anyone following how the Festival’s district model evolves. \nQuick Facts for London Design Festival 2026\nLondon Design Festival\, London\, September 12-20\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\nSize: 11 Design Districts\, 350\,000+ visitors\nHub: V&A South Kensington\nOther venues: Barbican\, Somerset House\, the Strand\, Wapping\nIn general\, free admission\, some events require paid tickets \n\nCheck the complete guide & calendar for opening hours \nVisit londondesignfestival.com for info \nRelated events: Shoreditch Design Week\, Material Matters\, Global Design Forum
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LOCATION:London\, London\, SW1\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Lake Como Design Festival 2026: Border Becomes a Meeting Point
DESCRIPTION:Lake Como Design Festival returns for its eighth edition from 12 to 20 September 2026\, and this year it steps outside its usual footprint. Alongside the familiar exhibitions and installations around Como and its lake\, the festival moves for the first time into a set of new venues in Lecco. The theme\, Border\, runs through every part of the programme\, and the organisers treat it less as a dividing line and more as a place where things meet: relationships form\, tensions surface\, and ideas change shape. \nThat idea shows up in a concrete way. By reaching into Lecco\, the festival pushes past the boundary it has kept to since it started. It also launches a new strand of exhibitions built with the region’s higher education institutions: the University of Insubria\, the Como Conservatory\, the Aldo Galli Academy of Como/IED\, and the Politecnico di Milano’s Lecco campus. The goal is to pull younger audiences into design\, architecture\, and art through work they can actually engage with\, and to turn the festival into a place where long-term collaborations can start\, not just a one-off cultural event. \nDiscover Lake Como Design Festival 2025  \n \nVilla del Grumello: Future in the Past\nVilla del Grumello and its park open to the public again\, this time hosting Future in the Past\, an exhibition that looks at how memory feeds design. Rather than treating archives as storage for old material\, the show presents them as active spaces that can still produce something new. \nThe line-up brings together several distinct voices. Artist Lupo Borgonovo shows Disegno Nomade\, large drawings based on buckles once used by nomadic peoples across Eurasia. Designer Nicolò Spinelli teams up with Simonetto\, the Meda woodworking atelier\, on an architectural intervention by Elisa Ossino built from gradient eucalyptus wood panelling. Etel comes back to the festival with a show on Lina Bo Bardi‘s furniture work in Brazil\, including her Carrinho de Chá and Cadeira de Balanço. Annarita Aversa of Architetti Artigiani Anonimi presents Proporzione Mediterranea\, curated by Giustini Stagetti Gallery and rooted in the vaulted houses of the Amalfi Coast. \n \nLake Como Design Festival\nComo & Lecco\, September 12-20\, 2026 \nSeven editions so far\nFor professional and general public\nSize: 20+ site-specific locations\, 650+ designers and galleries involved 100\,000+ visitors \n \nThe Carla Badiali Archive shows drawings from Badiali’s work with Hubert de Givenchy and Pierre Balmain\, and Eredi Marelli brings a 1948 bar cabinet by Paolo Buffa engraved with motifs drawn from Andrea Appiani’s lost decorative cycle for Milan’s Royal Palace. Francesca Brambilla curates 1in16 – A Border Divided\, a Story Shared\, where each artist works on a single sheet of AnimaGrigia® paper that only takes its final form once it’s divided; the resulting notebooks go on sale during the festival\, with proceeds funding Wonderlake Como’s schools programme for 2026–2027. \nIn the park surrounding the villa\, Nella Natura: Stories of Those Who Chose Another Life opens as an outdoor exhibition. Curated by Paola Manfredi with photographs by Selene Magnolia Gatti\, it follows six people who live on the edge between the city and the wild\, offering a quiet counterpoint to the villa’s archive-focused programme. \nDiscover EDIT Napoli 2025  \n \nVilla Saporiti: Contemporary Design Selection\nFor the first time\, the Contemporary Design Selection moves to Villa Saporiti\, a late-18th-century neoclassical building known for its rare elliptical salon and lakeside facade. Curated for the fourth year running by Giovanna Massoni and directed by festival coordinator Francesca Prandelli\, the show gathers more than fifty independent designers\, studios\, artisans\, and galleries from around thirty countries\, all responding to the Border theme through an open call launched in January. \nMassoni frames the selection as a space where different geographies and practices sit side by side rather than compete\, drawing on ideas from Gilles Clément\, Zygmunt Bauman\, Tomás Maldonado\, and Bruno Latour to describe borders as places of exchange rather than separation. The work on show moves across several interpretations of that idea: pieces built from waste materials or biomaterials sit next to reflections on craft and manufacturing; some designers hybridise materials and media\, others build objects meant to shift function depending on how they’re used. Several projects sit at the edge between authored and participatory design\, between individual and collective practice\, and between human and non-human ways of making. \nVilla Saporiti\, new location for 2026 \n  \nNomade: Fine Comune\nInside the former Church of Santa Caterina\, Nomade presents Fine Comune\, developed with Ultrapresent Studio. The show plays on the Latin root of the word border\, con-finis\, which points to a shared edge rather than a wall. Concrete and metal sculptures by Luca Monterastelli sit in the side aisle\, while the main space\, laid out with a soft floor and central seating\, brings together Acerbis’s Free System modular seating\, collectible pieces from Movimento Gallery\, and handcrafted rugs by cc-tapis. \nAlberto Granata: Border People\nAt the Chiostro di Sant’Abbondio\, photographer Alberto Granata shows sculpture photography under the title Gente di Confine\, curated by Eugenio Bitetti. His images sit deliberately between the material and the metaphysical\, giving stone figures a sense of life that pulls them out of pure history. \nIco Parisi Design Archive\nThe Archivio Design Ico Parisi marks its return with Ico Parisi e Giuliano Collina: Arte Condivisa\, tracing the collaboration between the two artists from the 1970s through to 1995\, when La Ruota\, the gallery founded by Ico and Luisa Parisi\, closed. The show includes ceramic pieces the pair made together in 1971 and material connected to Operazione Arcevia\, the alternative community housing project first shown at the Venice Biennale in 1976\, now marking its fiftieth anniversary. \n \nComo Conservatory: Atto Puro\nUltrapresent Studio curates Atto Puro at the Como Conservatory\, built around Cosmos\, the audio system it designed in 2025 to revive a late-1970s composition by Giusto Pio\, originally produced by Franco Battiato. Students from the Conservatory’s electronic music programme work through the space daily\, and visitors are invited to sit in on a live\, evolving listening session. \nAldo Galli Academy: After Evidence\nAfter Evidence\, the third issue of IED’s Notes on Plural Intelligences\, comes out of research into an archive of forensic images. It grew from a collaboration between IED and LABANOF-MUSA\, the University of Milan’s forensic anthropology lab\, which holds a collection of around 20\,000 skeletons spanning nearly 2\,000 years. The show doesn’t try to turn this material into a straightforward story. Instead it sits with fragments\, sound\, and image to ask how something built to establish fact can also become a space for memory and attention. \n \nLecco: three new venues\nThe festival’s move into Lecco brings three projects. Oltre al Vedere\, curated by Francesca Brambilla and developed by Cultura Meccanica at the Politecnico di Milano’s Department of Mechanical Engineering\, builds audio-tactile devices that let blind and partially sighted visitors experience design and art through touch and sound — this year’s centrepiece is a sensory version of Vico Magistretti’s Eclisse lamp.  \nAt the Politecnico’s Lecco campus\, Unstable Borders comes out of the AMALPI MORE research project on landslides and Alpine landscape change\, using models and data to make the slow movement of mountains perceptible. Alongside it\, Alpine Landscapes: Traces of Stone\, Community Bonds Between Italy and Switzerland presents the PAESALP project\, which looks at traditional stone construction and craft across the Italy–Switzerland border region. A third Lecco show\, Eterno Femminino\, curated by Francesca Brambilla\, Filippo Invernizzi\, and Fabio Martini\, uses Paleolithic and Neolithic Venus figurines alongside work by contemporary artists to trace how images of femininity have shifted between archetype and stereotype over time. \nStudio Visits and Rationalist Como\nAs in past editions\, the festival runs its Studio Visit programme\, opening design studios\, galleries\, ateliers\, and archives across the region to the public\, alongside a guided tour of Como’s Rationalist architecture. \nWhy visit \nThis year’s edition steps outside Como for the first time\, taking the festival’s design and archive exhibitions into Lecco. With over fifty international designers on show alongside historic archives from Ico Parisi\, Lina Bo Bardi and Carla Badiali\, it’s a rare chance to see contemporary design sit side by side with the region’s design heritage. \nPractical note\nThe festival is genuinely worth the trip\, but accessibility varies a lot by venue. The exhibitions in central Como are easy to reach on foot\, no issues there. Villa del Grumello\, the Serre\, and the Chilometro della Conoscenza involve uneven paths\, stairs\, or distances that can be tough if you have any mobility limitations\, so it’s worth planning ahead if that applies to you. We don’t yet have details on accessibility in Lecco\, since this is its first year as part of the festival. \nLake Como Design Festival\nComo & Lecco\, September 12-20\, 2026 \nSeven editions so far\nFor professional and general public\nSize: 20+ site-specific locations\, 650+ designers and galleries involved 100\,000+ visitors
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/lake-como-design-festival-2026-border-becomes-a-meeting-point/
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