Talks, courses and workshops

Coming together to share food, gifts, and company is an important part of any celebration. This holiday season, create your very own decorations and make your celebrations look extra special as the Design Museum builds a communal table of handmade marbled creations.

Each month, and during school holidays, the Design Museum holds a drop-in activity for families inspired by the museum and its exhibitions. These informal sessions focus on light-touch design and making activities for families with children aged 5–11.

Join this British Sign Language tour to explore what home means today through the radical visions of 20th-century architects and designers.

Join this Multisensory Tour for blind and partially sighted visitors to explore what home means today through the ideas of 20th century architects and designers.

Join a panel of industry experts as they discuss how designers are responding to the decline in home ownership in ‘generation rent ’.

Learn how to make fermented and naturally preserved foods with artist and food-designer Ines Neto dos Santos.

Explore questions around what makes a home in a screening of The Human Shelter, followed by a Q&A with acclaimed Danish film director Boris B. Bertram.

From re-designing genes to voting systems, discover how designers are working across other disciplines in a talk especially for university students.

This workshop will provide an exciting platform for the next generation to explore, design and make sustainable model homes of the future.

Explore the architecture of minimum dwelling at an evening with Pier Vittorio Aureli, one of the most influential architectural thinkers of his generation.

Join Stephanie Hankey, co-founder of the Tactical Technology Collective, for a deep-dive into the ethics and best practice of designing human-centred technologies.

To mark the opening of his exhibition Making Memory, hear Sir David Adjaye discuss his work and interest in monuments and memorials, with architect and curator Nikolaus Hirsch.

Join an evening screening and conversation with French filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine with Home Futures curator Eszter Steierhoffer.

Take part in a day of free drop-in workshops and talks, including object casting with jesmonite, rope jewellery making, risographic zine printing and talks by designers.

Take on a three-day challenge, to build the future for the next generation.

This February half term, create a community garden around a model tower block, in this special paper-craft activity created by Designer-In-Residence Hester Buck.

Explore the role of storytelling in design, in a day event especially for university students.

Discover some of the most innovative creative practices within sustainable design in this one-day symposium.

The Other Way symposium is organised by Maison/0 in collaboration with the Design Museum.

Designer Helga Schmid curates a weekend of talks and performances exploring design and alterative time systems.

In this three-hour workshop join Designer Haidée Drew to cast your own unique one-off object.

Join us in tackling the under-representation of women designers and architects online in this free edit-a-thon with Wikimedia.

How do you turn a creative idea into a successful business? Discover the basics in starting up a business on this practical course.

Join this British Sign Language tour of the Design Museum’s current exhibition David Adjaye: Making Memory.

Join this Multisensory Tour of the Design Museum’s current exhibition David Adjaye: Making Memory, for blind and partially sighted visitors.

Leading designers and theorists imagine what the architects and designers of the 20th century would have thought of the home today.

Create your own bio-plastic objects from everyday ingredients in this hands-on workshop.

Join a graphic design workshop exploring ideas for future living, inspired by the Home Futures exhibition