What’s on this Clerkenwell Design Week 2024

23rd Apr 2024

This Clerkenwell Design Week, we invite you to explore the geometries of spacetime through wax, fresco, and metal.

Laboratory, designed by Holloway Li in collaboration with Refin and Solus, allows you to explore microcosms hidden in ordinary materials through experimental photography. This interactive installation recreates the principles that drive Refin’s innovation lab. Create authentic and original designs from the unseen tiny worlds all around us.

We have some fantastic events lined up, from workshops and tasting to panel talks and parties. Explore the full programme:

AHMM: Delivering Net Zero in Use Toolkit

AHMM talk us through their new toolkit that enables users to coordinate and visualise a project’s carbon data over its full life cycle.

TIME	13:00 - 14:00

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Off-cut candlestick making workshop with Goldfinger

Join Goldfinger for this one-of-a-kind design workshop, you will learn how to make a sculptural, stacked candlestick from reclaimed timber. Goldfinger are London-based designers and makers of bespoke furniture, working for the good of people and planet.

TIME	15:00 - 16:00

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Everleaf non-alcoholic spirits tasting

B Corp drinks company Everleaf will guide us through their range of complex non-alcoholic aperitifs, made from sustainably sourced botanicals.

TIME	17:00 - 18:00

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Introduction to Laboratory

Join us as the creators of Laboratory, Alex Holloway of Holloway Li, Rino Bedogni of Refin and Sam Frith of Solus, introduce you to the installation.

TIME	18:30 - 19:30

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Performance from Juice Aleem + A La Fu DJ Set

Ninja Tune and Big Dada label mates Juice Aleem and A’La Fu kick things off for us in style. It’s showtime!

TIME	20:00 - 22:30

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Sketching masterclass with Narinder Sagoo MBE

Narinder Sagoo MBE, Senior Partner and Art Director at Foster + Partners, shows us how sketching is an integral part of his practice.

TIME	15:00 - 16:00

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The power of photography and moving image as agents of change

How can photography be a force for positive change? Joi Lee, Zed Nelson, and Gary Wallis discuss.

FOOD BY GUIDED WELLBEING	18:00 - 18:30
PANEL TALK	18:30 - 19:30

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Performance by Plumm x Hen-D

Inventive and eclectic, Plumm defies categories. A live performance by Plumm x Hen-D.

TIME	20:00 - 22:30

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Terrazzo Workshop with Annabelle Breakenridge

Create your own coaster, dish or oval tray. Build your moulds, learn to colour mix and imbue your material with pigment.

TIME	14:00 - 15:00

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Panel talk: Experimental Design for a Brighter Future

Does experimental practice deliver impactful change? Caroline Till of FranklinTill, Alex Holloway of Holloway Li, and Catrina Stewart of Office S&M discuss.