London Design Festival 2025

Join designer Bethan Laura Wood in creating swaying laminated paper sculptures inspired by seaweed and kites, in this event as part of London Design Festival. This event will be followed by a book signing from 16:00 to 17:00, where Bethan will be signing copies of 'PLATFORM: Bethan Laura Wood', published by the Design Museum.

Join designers, architects, artists and researchers in a symposium that explores our creative relationship to non-human life and our responsibility to design for animals, environments and landscapes in order to help our planet thrive.

Join us in the museum garden for a celebration of fashion as an ecosystem with fashion brand Anciela as part of the London Design Festival 2025. Explore an interactive installation, take part in a conversation with regenerative designer Bonnie Carr and enjoy a performance by dancer Margherita Barbieri, all inspired by interspecies empathy.

Join Wolf & Badger designer Eliská Sapera in this creative workshop to explore the power of colours using moodboards, natural dyed swatches and the qualities of natural fibres to transform your home as part of the London Design Festival 2025.

Join Future Observatory Curator Abbie Adams and the 2024/25 cohort of Design Researchers in Residence – Christie Swallow, Hani Salih, Laura Lebeau and Neba Sere – in conversation about designing for the green transition, exhibiting research-in-progress and all things Artificial.

PLATFORM is an annual display dedicated to showcasing contemporary design practice. The first display in a series presents the fascinating work of Bethan Laura Wood.
Location: Level 1

Discover Marina Willer's inspiring, expressive and playful sketchbooks made of colourful stickers in this free display in collaboration with Pith® and the London Design Festival.
Location: Level 2

This year's Design Researchers in Residence responded to the theme of ‘Artificial’, questioning the limits of human-centred design in a more-than-human climate crisis. Free entry.
Location: Level 2

Visit our garden and explore a vibrant collection of birdhouses by some of London’s most innovative designers. Responding to the challenge of reimagining the humble birdhouse, each design on display creates a space for our feathered friends to live in, and for humans to reflect upon.
Location: Design Museum Garden

Designer Maker User is an introduction to the museum’s collection, looking at the development of modern design through these three interconnected roles. Free entry.
Location: Level 2

A major exhibition bringing together art, science and radical thinking to ask how design can help our planet thrive by shifting its focus beyond human needs.
Location: Ground Level

Open from 20 September, a major exhibition on the legendary Blitz club night that transformed 1980s London style, and generated a creative scene that had an enormous impact on popular culture in the decade that followed – from fashion and music, to film, art and design.

London Design Festival celebrates and promotes London as the design capital of the world. The 23rd edition will take place on 13–21 September 2025.

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