Dazzle will be the culmination of the Dazzle Ship series co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW and Liverpool Biennial.
MEMORY & LIGHT
ARVO PART AND ARUP
BRITISH GALLERIES, ROOM 52B, NORFOLK HOUSE MUSIC ROOM, V&A
Estonian born, Arvo Pärt, is the most performed contemporary composer in the world, whose life and music represent a drive for freedom and invention against the odds. This installation – a rare collaboration for Pärt – was specially conceived for the V&A’s Norfolk House Music Room and was inspired by Arvo Pärt’s famous words about his music: “I could compare my music to white light, which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.”
Curated by Clare Farrow with Eva Woode in collaboration with Arup’s design team, Arvo Pärt’s words will be brought to life in this multi-sensory installation, in the form of a transparent curved screen representing the prism dividing colours in Pärt’s description; a “viewing and listening bench”; and the music of Arvo Pärt himself, including “Spiegel im Spiegel” (Mirror in the Mirror) and “Für Alina”.
A FOUNTAIN FOR LONDON
MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES
SUPPORTED BY THE LONDON FOUNTAIN COMPANY V&A AND BROMPTON DESIGN DISTRICT
has largely disappeared from the city’s public spaces.
BRITISH LAND CELEBRATION OF DESIGN MEDAL EXHIBITION 2018 MEDAL WINNERS
BRITISH GALLERIES, ROOM 55, CLORE STUDY AREA, V&A
For the 4th year running, to correspond with the British Land Celebration of Design, London Design Festival will present an exhibition featuring work by the four London Design Medal Winners
The Medal Exhibition illustrates the breadth of work and scale of achievement of each of the winners and celebrates the bestowed awards: Emerging Talent, Design Innovation, London Design Medal and Lifetime Achievement.
For the second year, the exhibition will be located in the Clore Study Area at the V&A.
OTHER INSTALLATIONS AT THE V&A WILL INCLUDE:
o TheArtofMusicintheDigitalAge:Aseriesofworld-firstdesignsbymusicianandtechnology innovator Beatie Wolfe supported by Nokia Bell Labs
o ThePatentLibraryattheV&A:AnopenandhackablepatentlibrarycreatedbytheInstituteofPatent Infringement
o ‘TheTransubstantiationofKnowledge’:Amixedrealitysite-specificinstallationbyRachelAra,V&A Research Institute Artist in Residence, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The London Fountain Company presents a prototype for a new drinking water fountain designed by Michael
Anastassiades and launched in the Brompton Design District and at the V&A. The first fountains will be sited in the V&A’s
John Madejski garden and in a public space in South Kensington at the initiative of South Kensington Estates. The London
Fountain Co has been set up by publisher and collector Charles Asprey and curator Jane Withers to reduce disposable
plastic bottle use by providing free drinking water. The legacy project aims to revive the drinking fountain culture that

GLOBAL DESIGN FORUM
Global Design Forum will return to the V&A as part of London Design Festival. Global Design Forum is a week-long celebration of design and its power to change the world. A series of talks, discussions and workshops the Forum lifts the lid on the most innovative thinking in the world of design today. Visitors will be inspired by pioneers that are changing the way we design and live, refreshing their thinking and rebooting their understanding of the power and potential of design as a force for good.
In 2017, 45 speakers from 13 countries shared their perspectives on designing for how we live today, and the world we want to inhabit tomorrow. Previous speakers include Camille Walala, Es Devlin, Brent Huberman, Paul Priestman, Michael Beirut, Zaha Hadid, Jaime Hayon, Peter Savile, Thomas Heatherwick, Faye Toogood, Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby.
DESIGN DISTRICTS, DESIGN DESTINATIONS AND DESIGN ROUTES
As a citywide event, London Design Festival is an essential platform for the capital’s major tradeshows taking place across London, including: 100% Design, Decorex International, designjunction, Focus/18 and London Design Fair. These shows feature work from a local and international network of both new and established exhibitors.
In 2018, there will be ten official Design Districts from East to West; North to South. Design Districts are areas where there are distinct concentrations of design activity and events that can be traversed easily on foot. Each District is organised locally and independently via the platform of London Design Festival. This year will see four new design districts taking part in the Festival; Fitzrovia Design District, Marylebone Design District, Regent Street and St James’s Design District, and West Kensington Design District.
They join Bankside Design District, Brompton Design District, Clerkenwell Design Quarter, Mayfair Design District, Pimlico Road Design District and Shoreditch Design Triangle.
In addition, we are delighted to welcome Paddington Central Design Route as a new Design Route alongside Brixton Design Trail.