Rhode Island School of Design president Rosanne Somerson discusses how the design school has been forced to reinvent itself in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in the penultimate talk as part of our collaboration with Friedman Benda for VDF. Tune in from 11:00am UK time. More
Creative director Anna Murray, who is the co-founder of London creative studio Patternity, spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime talk sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of VDF. More
Nelly Ben Hayoun led a relay panel discussion on how sports can influence the design industry as part of our Sports Day collaboration with the designer for Virtual Design Festival. More
Droog co-founder Renny Ramakers looks back at how the influential design platform shook up the industry in the 1990s in the latest talk in our ongoing collaboration with Friedman Benda for VDF. More
French designer Erwan Bouroullec spoke about Kvadrat Shade, the roller-blind solution he designed with his brother Ronan for Kvadrat, in this live talk as part of a collaboration with the Danish textile brand for VDF. More
In the second part of today's Virtual Design Festival collaboration with Serpentine Galleries, curator Rebecca Lewin speaks to Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew researcher Caroline Cornish and Ma-tt-er founder Seetal Solanki about how histories, politics and ecologies are embedded in materials. Tune in live from 11:00am UK time. More
Designer Piet Hein Eek spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. More
Marta Giralt investigates how nanotechnology could make the fashion industry more environmentally friendly for this Virtual Design Festival collaboration. More
Designer Sebastian Cox spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival today. More
As part of today's VDF's collaboration with Design Museum, London-based architect Stiliyana Minkovska is hosting a panel discussion on designing for pregnancy and childbirth. More
In the final part of Virtual Design Festival's day of talks with What Design Can Do, curator Jimena Acosta and artist Larissa Ribeiro discussed gender equality in design More
In the second part of Virtual Design Festival's day of talks with What Design Can Do, designer Anoushka Khandwala and fashion curator Sunny Dolat discussed how colonialism has shaped design. More
Xandra van der Eijk spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. More
What Design Can Do is live-streaming three talks focusing on social justice in design in collaboration with VDF today. The first is with journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who will discuss challenging bias and misrepresentation in the news. Watch the talk from 11:00am UK time. More
Devon&Devon has teamed up with Virtual Design Festival to host a live streamed discussion about a new collaboration between the Italian design brand and global architecture and design firm Gensler. More
Gaetano Pesce implores young designers to consider how to address social issues through their work, which he says has a greater capacity to communicate with people than art, in our latest collaboration with Friedman Benda for VDF. More
Lee Broom spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime discussion as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with the British designer. More
Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival teamed up with Shanghai furniture brand Stellar Works on a panel discussion with designers Neri&Hu and Space Copenhagen, who talked about merging Eastern and Western design traditions. More
Dezeen teamed up with Rado and Les Couleurs Suisse to host a panel discussion on how iconic architect Le Corbusier's Architectural Polychromy colour theory has influenced the brands' new watch collection as part of Virtual Design Festival. More
Micha Weidmann, a graphic designer, typographer and art director who created the Dezeen logo, spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime discussion as part of Virtual Design Festival. More