Event Details

Global Design Forum is London Design Festival’s curated thought leadership programme, celebrating design and the minds shaping its future.
GDF will be back at the V&A from 14 – 19 September 2024. The programme for 2024 will focus on some of the most pressing and crucial challenges that designers currently face. Daily themes will include Please Design Responsibly; The Healthy City; Resilience and Repair and More than Human.
 Over 60 speakers from across the global design and creative community will share new perspectives on how design can be more accessible, inclusive and sustainable and at the forefront of change. 
 Programme highlights include - 
More Than Human: Changing the Human Experience
Speakers:
Tobias Rylander, Melek Zeynep Bulut, and Hannah Marshall
Chaired by Samta Nadeem, Curatorial Director, STIR
 The Healthy City: The Healthy Home
Speakers:
Richard Williams, Uffe Leth, Nick Newman, Anna Graaf
Chaired by Michelle Ogundehin, Editor and presenter
 Tropical Modernism: The Chandigarh Experiment and Post-Colonial India
Hear Vikramaditya Prakash in conversation with Christopher Turner, curator of Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence.
 GDF is free to attend: tickets must be booked in advance.