Talks, courses and workshops

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.

Create a 3D building model of your own architectural design.

Make your own puppet inspired by Walter Van Beirendonck’s puppet costumes for ‘The Magic Flute’.

Explore how designers are creating alternative futures in this talk for university students and early-career practitioners.

Hear Professor Gerry McGovern OBE discuss the challenge of replacing the iconic Land Rover Defender.

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Join British fashion label RAEBURN to design your own parachute bag.

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Join Yamaha and Yuri Suzuki for an evening of performance and talks exploring the use of everyday objects, sounds, and interactions.

Learn simple tools for visualising and communicating ideas in this three-part introduction to drawing.

Join architect and technologist Xavier De Kestelier as he speculates on the future of architecture beyond planet Earth.

Join Creative Conscience to discuss how design can help face challenges around mental health and wellbeing.

Join the RAEBURN team for an evening of activities inspired by the red planet. Activities include: A talk and a RÆBURN T-shirt Customisation workshop.

Join leading designers, scientists and theorists to explore the challenges of designing for Mars, in collaboration with Imperial College London.

Join this Multisensory Tour for blind and partially sighted visitors to discover influential designs from the fields of fashion, architecture, transport, product, graphics and digital.

Join this British Sign Language tour to discover the most groundbreaking designs of the last 12 months across fashion, architecture, digital, transport, product and graphic design.

Duggee needs a new squirrel to join the club...can you design one for him? Join this workshop to learn design skills and earn your Design Badge.

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Join the Young Creatives as they host a day of workshops and talks exploring the theme Impact.

Create a life size Martian garden and design space food packaging influenced by the Moving to Mars exhibition.

Join this three-part course to find out everything you need to know about funding opportunities for your creative start-up.

Design, make and fly your own paper kite with bold colours, patterns and a positive climate message for all to see.

Explore how designers are developing alternative spaces and tools for design education in this talk for university students, early-career practitioners and design-educators.

Join us in tackling the under-representation online of women designers, architects and others in the built environment in this free Wikipedia edit-a-thon with WikiD (women, Wikipedia, design) and guests.

Join Italian architect and designer Michele de Lucchi to explore Earth Stations. How can technology help us design work environments for the future?

Learn the basics of Arduino coding and electronic textiles in this hands-on workshop.

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Join this hands-on introduction to rope-making using recycled materials.

Create your own framed poster using graphic design techniques.