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This week we will be doing a #LDB16 throwback to London Design Biennale Medal Winner, Lebanon, curated by @AKKannabelkarimkassar Annabel Kassar, who will share with us the inspiration behind their pavilion 'Mezzing in Lebanon' #Design #Lebanon #Inspiration #Inspo
The USA’s pavilion for #LDB16 was ‘The Immersion Room’, an interactive installation of digitised wallpapers from @Cooperhewitt - Smithsonian Design Museum's collection. The installation illustrated how we create ideas of utopia within our own homes #LDB20 #Design
Norway’s pavilion for #LDB16, Reaching for Utopia—Inclusive Design in Practice, was an ensemble of projects that demonstrated how Norway's people-centred approach to design and architecture permeates life, business and society
Lebanon’s installation for #LDB16, Mezzing In Lebanon, brought a slice of Beirut street life to the centre of London, celebrating utopia through the everyday designs of the people of Lebanon
For #LDB16, twenty Italian designers were asked to rethink the symbolic White Flag as a utopian emblem of global truce. The results were placed on the world map at the heart of the installation and gradually replaced by an object chosen or created by the designer
Indonesia’s pavilion for #LDB16 was inspired by the 1955 Asian-African Conference.
The dome, made of coir and derived from the mandala, represented the continuing search for the principles enshrined in the Bandung Charter: independence, equality, humanity and peace.
Greece’s installation for #LDB16 was a digital recreation of a marble quarry at Dionysus. For on·entropy, marble and light served as metaphors for the shifting social and cultural patterns caused by migration, and for the paradoxes, continuities and disruptions of utopia
Germany’s #LDB16 pavilion featured a dark room in which visitors could sit and contemplate around a flickering, hypnotic digital fire. This was intended to encourage collective dreaming and evoke humanity's primordial fantasy of a better world
France’s pavilion for #LDB16 collected and shared memories of Syria in a bid to preserve, stir up and share immaterial memories of its living heritage. By collecting 'memories of sweets', Benjamin Loyauté hoped to preserve these stories, while also provoking our will to act
At #LDB16 Chile presented a 1970s utopian project to give a socialist state a democratic electronic backbone. The project imagined giving the state a cybernetic spine, enabling ministers to view economic information in real-time and make informed decisions from a futuristic hub
#PorkyHefer who represented South Africa at #LDB16, has been announced as the winner of best new private house in the 2019 @wallpapermag awards. Read more >> https://t.co/MNREuwEZgz
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