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The Global Game

London Design Biennale 2023

Het Nieuwe Instituut has been appointed Artistic Director of the fourth edition of the London Design Biennale, which takes place from 1 to 25 June 2023 at Somerset House. Led by its General and Artistic Director, Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut aims to experiment with the biennale’s format of national and territorial pavilions through the theme The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations.

London Design Biennale, 2021. Photography by Ed Reeves.

London Design Biennale

London Design Biennale is an international exhibition and thought leadership programme featuring world leading design innovation and creativity from countries across the globe. The event reveals the potential of design to respond radically to changing social and environmental needs, its contribution to the world economy and its power to drive change and find solutions for the benefit of all.

Launched in 2016, with successful editions in 2018 and 2021, the exhibition asks participants to present compelling ideas from a diversity of viewpoints and across a broad range of design disciplines.

London Design Biennale is held in historic Somerset House, one of the UK’s finest and most beautiful 18th century buildings and is of international historical and architectural importance. The beautifully restored galleries at Somerset House provide participants with the opportunity to display their work in one of London’s leading venues. Each Biennale edition invites participants to respond to a universal theme set by the Artistic Director.

2023 Theme and Het Nieuwe Instituut as Artistic Director

London Design Biennale 2023 invites participants around the world to respond to the theme, The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations, set by Artistic Director Het Nieuwe Instituut. The theme asks countries and territories to imagine and enact new forms of international cooperation and participation, including with each other, through the medium of design. The Global Game, a web-based collaboration game designed for the biennale’s participants and curators, as well as design enthusiasts worldwide, will launch in autumn 2022. It allows participants to “explore potentialities for new forms of collaboration that can result in real-world collaborations,” which will manifest at the 2023 biennale.

London Design Biennale, 2021. Photography by Ed Reeves.
London Design Biennale, 2021. Photography by Ed Reeves.

Open Call Dutch pavilion

Het Nieuwe Instituut is launching an open call for (individual) curators and collectives to send a proposal for the Dutch presentation at the London Design Biennale 2023: The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations.Together with the Dutch Embassy of the United Kingdom, which is supporting the Dutch contribution to this biennale edition, Het Nieuwe Instituut invites curators and collectives to send a proposal that represents the Dutch design field and builds on its strengths in international collaboration.

date
01/06/2023
through
25/06/2023
language
English
 
location

Somerset House
London, United Kingdom