London Design Festival 2023: Lifestyle Trends
Big abstract concepts like community, tradition, spirituality and digitisation informed key installations and discussions during London Design Festival (LDF) (September 16-24). Designers and experts focused on how these ideas can be manifested physically, while giving consumers much-desired opportunities to gather together. We explore the core lifestyle takeaways to emerge during the festival.
Nurturing Neo-Traditions
Sensory Spirituality
Cultural Expression in Digital Realms
The question of how people live and evolve with their cultural heritage was a central theme across the week-long event. Exhibits played with storytelling to surface untold artistic legacies, while participatory events used historic crafts to bring people together. These projects demonstrate an appetite to connect to legacy in new ways.
The question of how people live and evolve with their cultural heritage was a central theme across the week-long event. Exhibits played with storytelling to surface untold artistic legacies, while participatory events used historic crafts to bring people together. These projects demonstrate an appetite to connect to legacy in new ways.
Summary
Nurturing Neo-Traditions | The question of how people live and evolve with their cultural heritage was a central theme across the week-long event. Exhibits played with storytelling to surface untold artistic legacies, while participatory events used historic crafts to bring people together. These projects demonstrate an appetite to connect to legacy in new ways. |
Sensory Spirituality | Installations explored what spirituality looks, feels and sounds like in contemporary society. This tactile, sensory approach to faith placed organised religion – from Christianity to Buddhism – alongside new-wave, mindfulness-tinged belief systems, echoing themes we identify in our report Redefining Faith. |
Cultural Expression in Digital Realms | Underpinning discussions about spiritual and cultural traditions were debates on how digital living will reshape the preservation of artefacts and the expression of ethics. The discussions were optimistic overall, with participants presenting everything from values-minded AI-powered designers, to sci-fi gamescapes inspired by regional Chinese folklore. |
London Design Festival 2023: Lifestyle Trends
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