London Design Biennale 2023: Eight must-see exhibitions at Somerset House

An oversize architectural wind chime, a fabric village square, and Polish windows for Ukraine’s reconstructions. The best of the London Design Biennales is on Archipanic.
An oversize architectural wind chime, a fabric village square, and Polish windows for Ukraine’s reconstructions. The best of the London Design Biennales is on Archipanic.
We give carte blanche to algorythms too easily. We allow them to tell us ‘truths’ to make decisions in building homes and cities. What if they make mistakes? With the DATAMENT exhibition, the Polish Pavilion questions the architecture of data.
The Polish Pavilion at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition presents Greenhouse Silent Disco, a greenhouse of the future where sensors capture plants’ reactions to humans and the environment. Such reactions are then translated into a concert of lights and sounds.
Biennale Arte 2022: surreal environments inspired by William S. Burroughs, Parisian bistros and black women-powered settings. We selected 10 must-see national pavilions in Venice.
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Marcin Rusak Studio teamed up with artists and designers from around the globe to aid migrants with the online charity project ICFU – International Creatives for Ukraine.
Desert X 2021: a wishing-well addressing access to potable water in Africa, a crafted maze exploring the desert as a cross-cultural border space, and an architectural installation questioning relativity and time between terrestrial land and outer space are among the best landscape art installations on show.
Are you ready to explore a Finnish submarine environment of a Magritte-inspired setting over the clouds? VR experiences and interactive 3D Models of over 200 exclusive European collectibles are on show at THE NEW REALITY digital group exhibition by ADORNO gallery. We have selected 6 brilliant designs from our favourite country-specific showcases.
5 recurring keywords at Venice Biennale 2018. National pavilions respond to to the FREESPACE main theme with visionary masterplans for Jerusalem Western Wall, a Trump defying US-Mexico border, the millennials’ occupation of Budapest’s Liberty bridge and more…
panGenerator’s Hash2Hash ephemeral installation turns selfies into gravel to enhance our compulsory attitude to create images even if, eventually, everything saved will be lost and we’ll all turn into ashes.
Trump’s wall and the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) splitting the Korean peninsula in two… These border walls are just the tip of a global iceberg. Archipanic explores protectionist and divisive constructions across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
In Szczecin, Poland, KWK Promes Robert Konieczny created an underground museum with a sloping concrete square on top that relates with the city’s past.
With the Fair building exhibition, Polish pavilion at Venice Biennale proposes fair-trade architecture in favor of the most underrepresented participant of the industry: the construction worker.
At Milan Expo 2015 international architects designed sustainable and temporary national pavilions in name of the fair motto “Feed the planet”.