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Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Virtual Design Festival cultural programme includes collaborations with partners around the world

Virtual Design Festival starts tomorrow! Here is the schedule of the cultural programme of talks, interviews, movies and collaborations that have been confirmed so far.

In addition to the events listed below, we're aiming to include a VDF video message and a live interview each workday during the festival. We'll be adding more events and more details as they are finalised, so keep checking back on this page. Top image: Rosey Chan, who will perform live at VDF on 15 May.

Overview

From 15 April onwards, Dezeen will host a rolling programme of online talks, lectures, movies, product launches and more. It will complement and support fairs and festivals around the world that have had to be postponed or cancelled and it will provide a platform for design businesses, so they can, in turn, support their supply chains. For more information, or to join the VDF mailing list, email us at vdf@dezeen.com.

Wednesday 15 April

12:00 launch movie

To launch Virtual Design Festival, we invited over 30 architects and designers from around the world to send self-recorded video messages for us to share with the world. We've edited these to a soundtrack by Los Angeles songwriter and musician Beatie Wolfe. The movie features creatives including Es Devlin, Ini Archibong, Kelly Hoppen, Fabio Novembre, Yves Behar, Ron Arad and more.

14:00 live Li Edelkoort interview

We go live to Cape Town, where Li Edelkoort is in "self-imposed auto-quarantine". In a live interview, the trend forecaster will share her latest thoughts on coronavirus following her interview with Dezeen last month, which has become Dezeen's most-read story of all time with 500,000 page views.

Thursday 16 April

03:00 PechaKucha INSPIRE the World

We've teamed up with PechaKucha, the Tokyo-based rapid-fire presentation format, to live stream its first-ever virtual global event. Speakers around the world including Yves Behar and Cameron Sinclair will each show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, with PechaKucha founders Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein hosting from Tokyo.

Friday 17 April

Forward Festival

Vienna's Forward Festival will showcase five of its most-popular lectures, featuring creatives including German typographer Erik Spiekermann, Stockholm studio Snask and Italian author and curator Paola Antonelli.

Monday 20 April

MAAT

Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) takes over VDF for the day. MAAT, together with Artworks, will launch a short documentary commissioned for the on-hold exhibition Currents – Temporary Architectures by SO-IL plus an interview with SO-IL founders Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, and a preview of their exhibition.

Wednesday 22 April

The World Around x Earth Day

The World Around curates a celebration of Earth Day on Dezeen. The World Around founder Beatrice Galilee will host a series of interviews with architects and visionaries working on environmental issues around the world.

Thursday 23 April

Ron Arad

Ron Arad will present a digital version of an exhibition called DFWTM that was due to be held at OTI gallery in Los Angeles, but which has been cancelled due to coronavirus.

Friday 24 April

Beatie Wolfe

Beatie Wolfe, a self-confessed "musical weirdo and visionary," shares her music and artworks with VDF, and will conduct a live interview and performance.

Monday 27 April

reSITE

Prague-based conference reSITE, a non-profit acting to improve the urban environment, will curate an exclusive selection of lectures from the reSITE 2019 REGENERATE conference.

Thursday 30 April

Dezeen Day

A chance to experience the best of the inaugural Dezeen Day, six months after the architecture and design conference took place in London. The entire day will be streamed, including keynotes by Paola Antonelli, Liam Young and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.

Wednesday 6 May

Iris van Herpen

Dezeen will launch an exclusive series of video interviews with the Dutch fashion designer.

Monday 11 May

Archigram

Dezeen will launch an exclusive series of video interviews with architects Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton, former members of the influential architecture collective.

Friday 15 May

Rosey Chan

Musician Rosey Chan (pictured) will conduct an interview and special performance, plus share some of her music-based collaborations with designers.

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“Gucci is constantly in transition so the brand is open to anything”: Ivar Wigan on his sci-fi fantasy interpretation

High fashion couture collides with technological dystopia in this future-facing Gucci shoot as seen in Wonderland’s latest Spring issue.

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Naps: A Sleepy Compilation Captures an Array of Animals and Humans Mid-Slumber

From drowsy ducklings to kids fast asleep in the backseat, a short compilation by New York-based filmmaker Daniel Mercadante (previously) gathers an adorable mix of animals and humans who are too tired to keep their eyes open. “Naps” catches tiny kittens nodding off and babies in the midst of dreamy slumbers and is a follow-up to “Yawns,” a similarly soporific compilation. Mercadante said his motivation for assembling the clips is simply “because we could all use a good nap from time to time.” Head to Vimeo and Instagram for more of the filmmaker’s collection-based projects.

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Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 14 April

Kiran Zhu's portable Handy Capsule aims to improve public hygiene

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes socially distanced cycle lanes, portable sanitation kits and warnings from Italy.

"Father of modern Iraqi architecture" dies from coronavirus

Architect Rifat Chadirji has passed away from coronavirus at the age of 93 in London. Chadirji designed over 100 buildings in Iraq, including the Baghdad Central Post Office and the Freedom Monument at Tahrir Square (via Middle East Eye).

Epidemiologist calls for everyone to wear a face shield

US physician and epidemiologist Michael Edmond has claimed that face shields are more effective than masks at protecting the general public from coronavirus (via Dezeen).

Open House launches fundraiser to survive the pandemic

The world's largest architecture festival has lost almost all of its income due to coronavirus and has started a fundraising programme asking people to become Open House Friends and donate in return for rewards (via Open House).

Italy's design brands warn of "economic catastrophe" if lockdown continues

A group of Italian companies have called on their government to ease the lockdown and allow manufacturing to restart on 14 April or risk country's economic future (via Dezeen).

Formula One ventilators idea scrapped in UK

Plans to use for new ventilators designed by Formula One to address the UK's medical equipment shortage have been cancelled after assessment shows them to be unsuitable for treating the unique symptoms of coronavirus (via Guardian).

Portable sanitation kit designed to promote public health

Chinese designer Kiran Zhu has created Handy Capsule, a portable sanitation kit complete with a disposable face mask, hand sanitiser, alcohol wipes and temperature stickers (via Dezeen).

Pratt Institute professor dead from Covid-19 at 73

Lou Goodman, who taught at the architecture department of the Pratt Institute in New York since 1979 has died at the age of 73 from coronavirus (via Harriet Harriss Twitter).

Coronavirus is both a "disaster and an opportunity" says Hella Jongerius

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has told Dezeen that the pandemic provides an opportunity for designers to focus on finding solutions to "global problems" in a recorded animation for our Virtual Design Festival (via Dezeen).

Germany re-draws bicycle lanes to allow social distancing

Pop-up cycle lanes in Berlin have been drawn on the road to allow cyclists to use the roads while staying 1.5 metres away from each other (via The Guardian).

Artists create Zoom meeting backgrounds for remote workers

Meeting Masterpieces is a new site set up by New York consultancy Co:collective where users can download original backgrounds for their Zoom meetings and donate to an artist or charity (via Meeting Masterpieces).

Bar Basso launches fundraiser for Milan homeless shelter

Bar Basso, the go-to location for thirsty visitors during Milan's Salone del Mobile (cancelled this year due to coronavirus), has launched a fundraising campaign asking designers to donate the price of a drink to Opera San Francesco, a homeless shelter in the city that provides 200 hot meals a day and a free clinic for those experiencing poverty (via GoFundMe).

Woods Bagot designs adaptable apartment for coronavirus

Architecture firm Woods Bagot has designed an apartment with adjustable walls for people spending more time at home during the coronavirus lockdown (via Dezeen).

Keep up with developments by following Dezeen's coverage of the coronavirus outbreak. For news of impacted events, check Dezeen Events Guide's dedicated coronavirus page.

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