Virtual Design Festival cultural programme includes collaborations with partners around the world

Virtual Design Festival starts tomorrow! Here is the schedule of the cultural programme of talks, interviews, movies and collaborations that have been confirmed so far.

In addition to the events listed below, we're aiming to include a VDF video message and a live interview each workday during the festival. We'll be adding more events and more details as they are finalised, so keep checking back on this page. Top image: Rosey Chan, who will perform live at VDF on 15 May.

Overview

From 15 April onwards, Dezeen will host a rolling programme of online talks, lectures, movies, product launches and more. It will complement and support fairs and festivals around the world that have had to be postponed or cancelled and it will provide a platform for design businesses, so they can, in turn, support their supply chains. For more information, or to join the VDF mailing list, email us at vdf@dezeen.com.

Wednesday 15 April

12:00 launch movie

To launch Virtual Design Festival, we invited over 30 architects and designers from around the world to send self-recorded video messages for us to share with the world. We've edited these to a soundtrack by Los Angeles songwriter and musician Beatie Wolfe. The movie features creatives including Es Devlin, Ini Archibong, Kelly Hoppen, Fabio Novembre, Yves Behar, Ron Arad and more.

14:00 live Li Edelkoort interview

We go live to Cape Town, where Li Edelkoort is in "self-imposed auto-quarantine". In a live interview, the trend forecaster will share her latest thoughts on coronavirus following her interview with Dezeen last month, which has become Dezeen's most-read story of all time with 500,000 page views.

Thursday 16 April

03:00 PechaKucha INSPIRE the World

We've teamed up with PechaKucha, the Tokyo-based rapid-fire presentation format, to live stream its first-ever virtual global event. Speakers around the world including Yves Behar and Cameron Sinclair will each show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, with PechaKucha founders Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein hosting from Tokyo.

Friday 17 April

Forward Festival

Vienna's Forward Festival will showcase five of its most-popular lectures, featuring creatives including German typographer Erik Spiekermann, Stockholm studio Snask and Italian author and curator Paola Antonelli.

Monday 20 April

MAAT

Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) takes over VDF for the day. MAAT, together with Artworks, will launch a short documentary commissioned for the on-hold exhibition Currents – Temporary Architectures by SO-IL plus an interview with SO-IL founders Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, and a preview of their exhibition.

Wednesday 22 April

The World Around x Earth Day

The World Around curates a celebration of Earth Day on Dezeen. The World Around founder Beatrice Galilee will host a series of interviews with architects and visionaries working on environmental issues around the world.

Thursday 23 April

Ron Arad

Ron Arad will present a digital version of an exhibition called DFWTM that was due to be held at OTI gallery in Los Angeles, but which has been cancelled due to coronavirus.

Friday 24 April

Beatie Wolfe

Beatie Wolfe, a self-confessed "musical weirdo and visionary," shares her music and artworks with VDF, and will conduct a live interview and performance.

Monday 27 April

reSITE

Prague-based conference reSITE, a non-profit acting to improve the urban environment, will curate an exclusive selection of lectures from the reSITE 2019 REGENERATE conference.

Thursday 30 April

Dezeen Day

A chance to experience the best of the inaugural Dezeen Day, six months after the architecture and design conference took place in London. The entire day will be streamed, including keynotes by Paola Antonelli, Liam Young and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.

Wednesday 6 May

Iris van Herpen

Dezeen will launch an exclusive series of video interviews with the Dutch fashion designer.

Monday 11 May

Archigram

Dezeen will launch an exclusive series of video interviews with architects Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton, former members of the influential architecture collective.

Friday 15 May

Rosey Chan

Musician Rosey Chan (pictured) will conduct an interview and special performance, plus share some of her music-based collaborations with designers.

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