London Design Biennale @ Somerset House

The London Design Biennale displays an array of artwork, represented by countries' ambitious designers and innovators, showing how design impacts every aspect of our lives.

Designers responded to the theme Emotional States, participants from six continents exhibited interactive design installations. International design is astonishingly mindblowing!

Full Spectrum- Flynn Talbot 

Australia

Talbot explores positive emotions and positive Australia after same-sex marriage became legal in December 2017. Talbot became inspired by the new notion of love that unleashed a freedom. This is a tactile and immersive light screen pavilion that aims to recreate the feeling of love through light.

Disobedience- Nassia Inglessis

Greece

This 17 metre long wall, constructed from a steel spring skeleton with flexing plastic, breathes around the human body as it walks through. People transgress through the mechanical boundaries, passing through the undulating walkway.

Sensorial Estates- Scratch n Sniff wallpaper

Hong Kong

The designer plays with scent as a tool to trigger memory, the wallpaper not only displays emblems of Hong Kong but the scents of Hong Kong too. This explores the nostalgic representations of the region.

housEmotion- Tabanlioglu Architects

Turkey

Power Plant

The Netherlands

Futuristic greenhouse that uses sunlight to generate food and electricity.

Rug made out of plastic bags (shaped into donuts)

Chair made out of jeans and old clothing

Pure Gold

Germany

Upcycled responses highlight the ecological damage we inflict with our waste, exploring the emotional response to transformed trash.

Tate Modern London

LED installation

Yarn/wool hanging up in various shades of blues and denims. I particularly enjoyed looking at the monstrosity of the scale and the intensity of the texture, vividly soft and comforting.

Futuristic Packaging

The majority of packaging is made of plastic these days and the atrocities of consumerism means that wildlife is at risk.

Think of all the turtles that could be saved if all that plastic packaging were to be replaced with an alternative material... perhaps a biodegradable recycled paper?

Here I created a new version of the fruit net by replicating the conventional one but making it out of paper instead. This mocks the way produce is unnecessarily over wrapped in synthetic materials, highlighting society's greed. But this also shows how there are better alternatives, if plastic packaging is replaced by a biodegradable paper it is not only healthier for the environment but it also means the package is easier to open too!

OXO Tower Wharf