Posts Tagged: Events
London Festival of Architecture 2026 Explores Belonging
The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) 2026 is underway, bringing more than 400 events to neighbourhoods across the capital throughout June under the theme Belonging. Now in its 22nd year, the month-long festival organised by NLA continues to use architecture as a framework for exploring wider social, cultural and environmental issues. This year’s programme includes… Read More >
Milan Material Finds – Part Two
In our second addition of Milan Design Week highlights, we turn our attention to the wider Fuorisalone, which this year focused on the theme Be the Project. It signalled a shift of attention away from outcome and towards process, positioning design as a dynamic, human-centred act shaped by intuition, responsibility and transformation. Image credit: Lorenzo… Read More >
Where Everything Connects: The New Thinking Behind Cruise Interiors
At Design Insider, we amplify the expertise of designers, suppliers and operators working across the global commercial interiors sector, including the fast-evolving world of cruise. Through interviews, project features and industry conversations, we explore how design is shaping the future of spaces at sea, from guest experience and material innovation to sustainability and operational complexity…. Read More >
Milan Material Finds
With Salone del Mobile.Milano once again anchoring Milan Design Week, the 2026 edition reaffirmed the city’s position as one of design’s leading global testing grounds. Across the fairgrounds and the ever-expanding constellation of Fuorisalone installations, exhibitions and temporary installations, Milan continues to operate like a city-scale laboratory for ideas. Photo credit: Saverio Lombardi Vallauri This… Read More >
Europe’s Design Heavyweights Descend on EC1 for CDW’s Landmark 15th Edition
As Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) marks its 15th anniversary this May, the festival welcomes design collections from across Europe. Spanning six countries – from Spain, Italy and Norway to Germany, Austria and the UK – this year’s line-up brings dozens of international brands and studios to EC1, making CDW 2026 the most wide-ranging showcase of… Read More >
Fung+Bedford at Clerkenwell Design Week: Resonance and the power of the fold
For Clerkenwell Design Week this May (19th–21st), design studio Fung+Bedford presents Resonance, a luminous, large-scale installation suspended within the nave of St Bartholomew the Great, one of London’s most ancient and atmospheric churches. Fung+Bedford is a design studio that creates origami-inspired, large-scale installations and faceted sculptures for architectural and interior environments. Comprising four illuminated, folded… Read More >
Circular Design and the Architecture of Listening at Clerkenwell Design Week’s 15th Edition
As Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) prepares to mark its 15th anniversary across EC1 this May, the festival is sharpening its focus on two salient themes: sustainability and sound. Across Clerkenwell’s venues, streets and green spaces, Design Interventions, the festival’s curated series of large-scale installations, will challenge designers and visitors alike to reconsider how we build,… Read More >
Material District, Utrecht 2026
Last month, Jim Biddulph, headed to MaterialDistrict Utrecht, one of Europe’s leading platforms for material innovation, to see firsthand how thinking around materials is evolving across the built environment. From circular systems and agricultural waste to bacteria-grown surfaces and bio-based alternatives, what he found wasn’t just experimentation, but a growing shift towards application and a… Read More >
A Night of Innovation: 2026 Workspace Design Awards Winners Announced
The very best in contemporary workplace design was celebrated on 25 February at 5:30pm at the Business Design Centre in London, as the 2026 Workspace Design Awards, proudly sponsored by Mute, recognised the most outstanding workplace projects from around the world. Held within the beautifully curated Insights Lounge, designed by Peldon Rose, the awards ceremony… Read More >
Circular Surfaces
Walking the aisles of this year’s Surface Design Show, what was most striking was not just the sheer diversity of finishes, textures and techniques on display, but the volume of materials now rooted in circular thinking. From surfaces formed from post-consumer waste and industrial by-products to systems designed explicitly for disassembly, reuse and material recovery,… Read More >
Clerkenwell Design Week launches new installation series: ‘ Design Interventions ’ and expanded CDW Awards
Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) is pleased to announce it will be returning to London’s EC1 on the 19 – 21 May 2026. The Fountain of Technicolour Beads by One Bite Design Marking the 15th anniversary of this global design festival, a new curated series of large-scale installations will be launched called Design Interventions. Following a… Read More >
Milliken Floors to Exhibit at Workspace Design Show London 2026, Celebrating 40 Years of UK Manufacturing
Milliken Floors, a leading provider of innovative commercial flooring solutions, is delighted to announce its participation in the Workspace Design Show London 2026. The event, renowned as the UK’s premier workspace interiors exhibition, will take place in London and attract architects, designers, and workplace professionals from across the country and beyond. The exhibition takes place… Read More >
Workspace Design Show London Unveils “Connected Realities” Installations
Workspace Design Show (25–26 February 2026, Business Design Centre, London) returns with a powerful series of immersive installations that bring the show’s 2026 theme, Connected Realities, to life. Designed by leading architecture and workplace design studios, these installations explore how physical environments, digital systems, material innovation and human experience are becoming increasingly interconnected in the… Read More >