VDF x The World Around

On 22 April, Virtual Design Festival collaborated with The World Around to host an online design symposium marking Earth Day 2020. We broadcast a series of talks, interviews, short films and essays by over twenty visionaries at the forefront of ecological design, curated by Beatrice Galilee.

Watch the first part of the live stream above, or scroll down for all the other content.

Watch: Session one – Rethink | Session two – Reimagine | Session three – Recreate | Covide-19 film premiere | Interview with curator Beatrice Galilee

Read: Design Earth interview | Mona Chalabi illustrations

Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19

Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus across a wide range of different scales. More

Benedict Hobson | 22 April 2020 | Leave a comment
Cameron Sinclair and Facebook's Margaret Stewart feature in the third instalment of The World Around symposium

Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook's director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. More

Benedict Hobson | 22 April 2020 | Leave a comment

Mona Chalabi creates Stats to Help you Breathe illustrations to take people's minds off coronavirus

Data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi has unveiled a series of limited-edition prints and shared a selection of her illustrations visualising information about coronavirus as part of The World Around's takeover of Virtual Design Festival for Earth Day. More

Benedict Hobson | 22 April 2020 | Leave a comment
"It's hard to yearn for a return to a pre-pandemic normal" says Design Earth

El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. More

Benedict Hobson | 22 April 2020 | Leave a comment
Part two of The World Around's Earth Day symposium features Aric Chen and Thomas Thwaites

Curator Aric Chen and designer Thomas Thwaites discuss their work in the second part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around, which also features short films by Kalyanee Mam and Apichatpong Weerasthakul. More

Benedict Hobson | 22 April 2020 | Leave a comment

Kunlé Adeyemi and Nelly Ben Hayoun feature in the first session of The World Around symposium

Our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day kicks off with a series of conversations with designers including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi. More

Benedict Hobson | 22 April 2020 | Leave a comment
Live video interview with The World Around curator Beatrice Galilee

In this live interview, Beatrice Galilee speaks to Dezeen about the online symposium she has curated as part of Virtual Design Festival's partnership with The World Around for Earth Day. More

Benedict Hobson | 22 April 2020 | Leave a comment
Kunlé Adeyemi, Nelly Ben Hayoun and Cameron Sinclair feature in VDF's collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day

To mark Earth Day, VDF collaborated with The World Around to host a series of talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could "shape the future of our relationship with the planet". More

Benedict Hobson | 22 April 2020 | Leave a comment