V&A reveals installations and events for the 20th London Design Festival
This year’s LDF programme at the V&A explores the “transformative and regenerative” power of design.
Artefact from R for Repair. Credit: Zuketa Film Production
V&A has announced its programme for the 20th year of the London Design Festival (LDF), which includes a 3D-printed sculpture made from marine plastic waste and a live glassblowing studio.
For the 13th year running, V&A will act as the official hub for the festival, housing eleven displays and installations created by designers from across the world. Specially commissioned for LDF, each project will interpret the theme of “transformation”.
R for Repair: London x Singapore aims to highlight the benefits of repair, inferring that the process cannot only add character but also value to a possession. Led by DesignSingapore Council and National Design Centre (Singapore), the project intends to “illuminate the air of repair” by exhibiting objects that have been “creatively renewed” by designers.
Prior to the exhibition, members of the public from London and Singapore were invited to hand over cherished, broken objects and explain their meaning, which were then passed on to designers for restoration. A wider aim of the exhibition is to encourage global waste reduction by demonstrating that things can be given a longer lifespan with a little creative effort.
All repaired objects will be returned to their owners after the exhibition.