September Diary
Diary editor Johanna Agerman | johanna@icon-magazine.co.uk THE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 19-27 SEPTEMBER The London Design Festival is in its seventh year and once again brings a host of design events and activities to the city – more than 200 in fact. Make sure you pick up the icon design trail, our guide to the best of the week. Don’t miss icon’s exciting design prize draw at 100% Design (more information on www.iconeye.com) or Jaime Hayón’s giant ceramic chess board in Trafalgar Square
Diary editor Johanna Agerman | johanna@icon-magazine.co.uk
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THE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 19-27 SEPTEMBER The London Design Festival is in its seventh year and once again brings a host of design events and activities to the city – more than 200 in fact. Make sure you pick up the icon design trail, our guide to the best of the week. Don’t miss icon’s exciting design prize draw at 100% Design (more information on www.iconeye.com) or Jaime Hayón’s giant ceramic chess board in Trafalgar Square. The Spanish designer’s fanciful pieces are two metres tall. Also look out for Size & Matter. This time around, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been commissioned to design a temporary structure outside the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank. Various venues, London www.londondesignfestival.com |
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| INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE ROTTERDAM 24 SEPTEMBER – 10 JANUARY The main event of the fourth architecture biennale in Rotterdam is the exhibition Open City: Designing Coexistence at the Netherlands Architecture Institute with works by a host of international architects, artists and critics. To add to the theme of openness the exhibition will have a direct link from the street into the main exhibition space. Various venues, Rotterdam and Amsterdam www.iabr.nl |
EXPERIMENTA DESIGN: IT’S ABOUT TIME … 9 SEPTEMBER – 8 NOVEMBER Lisbon’s Experimenta Design, the international biennale, takes a long look at “time” this year. What is time? Is time a luxury or a necessity? Focused around exhibitions, talks and film screenings, the highlights this year include the graphic design exhibition Quick, Quick, Slow, curated by Emily King, and The Pace of Design, which follows seven design studios across the globe. Various venues, Lisbon www.experimentadesign.pt |
SUNNY MEMORIES 23-30 SEPTEMBER This exhibition is the culmination of an international workshop exploring the future of solar energy. Students from California College of the Arts, ECAL, ENSCI and the Royal College of Art explore the potential of solar energy in daily life. Led by a host of international designers such as Yves Béhar and Sam Hecht, the students have invented concepts which look to the future of solar energy, as well as products ready for use today. Royal College of Art, London www.epfl-ecal-lab.ch |
| CERAMICS IN THE CITY 18-20 SEPTEMBER Fair with work by 50 contemporary ceramicists. Geffrye Museum, London www.geffrye-museum.org.uk |
PARK NIGHTS EVERY FRIDAY IN SEPTEMBER Film screenings and talks in SANAA’s pavilion. Serpentine Gallery, London www.serpentinegallery.org |
FOLIO FORUM 17 SEPTEMBER, 6.30PM Jop van Bennekom, editor of Fantastic Man, leads a discussion of creative work. The Photographers’ Gallery, London www.photonet.org.uk |
| JABORNEGG & PÁLFFY UNTIL 27 SEPTEMBER A collection of 20 works by the Viennese architects. Pinakotheken Museums, Munich www.pinakothek.de |
BATTERSEA POWER STATION 3-29 SEPTEMBER Michael Collins’ photographs of the iconic building. RIBA, London www.architecture.com |
SOCIOLOGICAL WALKS 10 SEPTEMBER, 7PM Take a stroll around Paris with philosopher Alain Milon and artist Jean Faucheur. Fondation Cartier, Paris www.fondation.cartier.com |
| INTUITION, REFLECTION, CONSTRUCTION 23-29 SEPTEMBER Retrospective of the late Sverre Fehn. Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki www.mfa.fi |
ARCHFILMLUND 1-13 SEPTEMBER Film festival dedicated to architecture. Various venues, Lund www.archfilmlund.se |
ADVENTURES IN MOTION 9-13 SEPTEMBER Onedotzero’s 13th digital moving image festival. BFI, London www.onedotzero.com |
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September Diary