First look: London Design Biennale 2021
June 1, 2021 5:55 pm Es Devlin breaks a founding rule at Somerset House this summer, as the stage designer builds a forest of over 400 trees at the central London venue. Forest for Change – which is the centrepiece of this year’s London Design Biennale (LDB) – counters the founders’ ban on trees in the building’s courtyard. Devlin believes the trees subvert the rules set by Somerset House’s Enlightenment-era designers and show how we can “counter this attitude of human dominance over nature”. Devlin is artistic director of LDB’s third edition which, like many events, was s...
Source: designweek.co.uk