Adorno London 2021 - Designing Futures
In close collaboration with leading curators, Adorno invites the international audience of the London Design Festival on a design journey through eight design cultures by presenting new work, spanning the fields of collectible design and functional art, conceived by experimental thinkers and practitioners who are part of a global, contemporary discourse.
This year, Adorno brings a roster of more than seventy of the most promising designers from eight countries to London, both physically at several locations around the city, and online through immersive virtual 3D experiences on adorno.london.
Once again, Adorno has harnessed the best in tech to create state-of-the-art virtual exhibitions. We will tune in on one design community at a time during the Festival, 18 - 26 September 2021, in collaboration with international and national media partners.
Each collection, including works by up to ten defining designers working at the intersection between design, craft, and art, is curated under a specific theme that investigates what “Designing Futures” means in practice.
Squaring the circle, all pieces will be immediately available for purchase on adorno.design alongside more than 50 previous collections from around the world.
“It is Adorno’s aim to keep each craft and design ecosystem alive and visible during these times by providing the right international exposure for the designers, makers, and curators at the center of each design scene”
Kristian Snorre Andersen, Co-founder & CEO, Adorno
Future-minded authors such as Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell made surprisingly accurate predictions about the 21st century in their work. In 2021, who are the visionaries that will create similar images of the future?
In the aftermath of our new reality, we have re-learned and developed how we approach social, political, ecological, and economic uncertainties. Last year, our global design community came together to conceive of effective and innovative solutions, examining the ways we have had to adapt to the new reality. This year, we are focused on gathering everything that we have learned and actively applying it to our future. We turn our attention to the design world and ask what these solutions look like in practice - what does the future of design look like?
Adorno London 2021 explores the predictions for and possibilities of the future of design. Adorno has invited leading curators from eight countries to select a group of innovative and forward-thinking designers from their respective design communities to interpret this topic through their artistic practices. Through these collections, we investigate how these makers will shape the future of design and what the next decade will bring.
For curators, this future offers the ability to predict new trends, shape how audiences consume design, and begin the conversation of what is of greatest importance in each of their design scenes.
For independent makers, this future is continuously being shaped by their ideas. They are pioneers driven by their individual outlooks on design, discussing and collaborating with fellow designers and artists, and developing innovative technologies, materials, and knowledge to illustrate what their design futures look like.
- We ask you to join the conversation of what comes next.
3 Physical Exhibitions:
The Estonian Collection
The Latvian Collection
The Lithuanian Collection
Hosted at Tactile Baltics
Dray Walk Gallery — Dray Walk off Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL
Dates: 18-26 September 2021
Opening House: Mon-Fri: 10 am - 6.30 pm Sat-Sun: 10 am - 5 pm
The Dutch Collection
Dray Walk — Gallery 11 off Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL
Dates: 22-26 September 2021
Opening Hours: 10am - 6pm
The Swedish Collection
Dray Walk — Gallery 11 off Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL
Dates: 22-26 September 2021
Opening Hours: 10am - 6pm
8 Virtual Experiences:
Register to visit virtually at www.adorno.london
Austria
Belgium
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Netherlands
Norway
Sweden