More than Human at Design Museum
At the Preview of More than Human at @designmuseum
Why has design always centred humans — when we’re only one species among millions?
This urgent and inspiring exhibition marks a turning point.
It introduces more-than-human design: a growing global movement that asks us to reimagine our role on Earth — not as dominators, but as collaborators.
In the face of climate breakdown, extinction and ecological collapse, artists, designers and technologists from around the world are creating bold new ways to live, build and imagine with the natural world.
From interactive installations to Indigenous mapping, from AI that listens to rivers to tapestries woven from a bee’s-eye view — over 140 works explore how design can serve not just humans, but forests, rivers, pollinators, octopuses and coastlines.
You’ll find:
– A haunting 8m mural tracing the movement to grant legal rights to rivers
– Immersive seaweed spaces, created as sanctuaries for multispecies life
– The groundbreaking work of Anab Jain and Superflux, who use AI to turn data from rivers into a language we can understand — a voice for ecosystems too often ignored.
At the entrance, a Planet Earth Calendar charts what’s happening in nature every day of the year. It’s become a quiet favourite — a chance to see the world through the lens of your birthday, not as a personal celebration, but as a planetary moment.
Created in collaboration with Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition, this is the first major exhibition of its kind — and a vital one.
It’s not just a show. It’s a vision of a future where design listens, learns, and lets life thrive.
🌱 This press release is printed on recycled, compostable paper embedded with wildflower seeds. You can return it to the soil — or plant it, and let something new take root.
📍Design Museum
📅 opens 11th July, ends 5th of October
🎟️ Adult tickets from £14.38, under 6 go free, Children aged 6 to 15 from £7.19
Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat - Encounter at Pace Gallery
We visited Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat - Encounter at Pace Gallery during our gallery hopping this week.
This exhibition, marks the first time they have exhibited in conversation with one another and it is curated by Alfred Pacqurment. It surveys both artists’ enduring commitment to abstraction as a means of engaging philosophical ideas of time, space, and matter.
Lee and Viallat first met in 1971 when they were both included in the Biennale de Paris.
The repetition of forms is a core facet of both artists’ practices.
My Girl liked this one and was interested in the materials used. She also liked the big rock with the broken glass in the first room and was wondering if they made this piece in the gallery and left it there or if they trasported it there like that.
📍Pace Gallery, 5 Hanover Square, London, W1S 1HQ
🎟️ FREE Art for All
📅 until 29th July
France-Lise McGurn: Hostess at Simon Lee Gallery
This one speaks to my soul and not just me but My Girl loved this one a LOT as well, she wasn’t leaving.
She was so happy and inspired in this room and felt the freedom to express herself. It was really magical!
One not to be missed! More in stories.
📍Simon Lee Gallery, 12 Berkeley Street, W1J 8DT
📅 until 25th of May, Monday to Friday, 9:30am-6pm
🎟️ FREE Art for All
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination
This exhibition is styled like a spaceship, with the assistance of an A.I., where you enter a selection of various scientific equipment/film props and promises to show you how science fiction interlinks and inspires real life science and discovery.
This exhibition is styled like a spaceship, with the assistance of an A.I., where you enter a selection of various scientific equipment/film props and promises to show you how science fiction interlinks and inspires real life science and discovery.
I am a big Sci-fi fan and I was really excited to check this out. I was very reluctant to take My Girl with me, as I wasn’t sure what the benefit will be for her, since she hasn’t watched any of the movies featured.
We did go together in the end and although the age recommendation for this exhibition is 8+, I would say this will work better for teens. There were many film props and pop culture references from films and the majority of these films won’t interest an 8 year old, or even a slightly older child. Even though this is compensated slightly by giving free tickets to under 7’s.
As suspected, she speed-walked through most of it, making it difficult for me to pay proper attention. The only think she found interesting was the “real” version of Star Trek’s warp drive simulation and I don’t blame her at all, as I am a massive fan and the number one reason I wanted to visit. She really took her time there, so I managed to catch up a little bit on the reading and then I realised that they only had a model of the USS Enterprise and the late Nichelle Nichol’s Uhura costume (which was very touching) but I wanted more - where was The Next Generation reference? What about Picard and Data? Soon I realised that it wasn’t just Star Trek that was dealt in an incomplete way but all other features as well.
They were lots of props to spot (unfortunately they were not the original ones), like the Ridley Scott’s hypersleep pod from Prometheus, Darth Vaders helmet, Fifth Element Mondoshawan costume, Astronaut costumes from different movies, a few Aliens from different movies and a Dalek from Doctor Who amongst others.
What I really enjoyed was the look into bionic engineering advances in prosthetic limbs and other bionic parts, which are changing humanity, making science fiction a living reality. Tilly Lockey a meningitis-survivor and Youtuber, discusses her hi-tech hands and argues that we’re entering a cyborg utopia. This is fascinating stuff and this is what I expected more of.
At the end of this voyage, you find yourself on the spaceship’s observation deck, looking down on our pale blue dot, earth. That room was really beautiful. The children most probably will love it.
My final thought is that this exhibition is not worth a separate ticket and it should have been included with the Museum entry.
📍Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD
🎟 Tickets from £15 adult. Children, concession and family package prices available.
📅 extended until 20th August 2023
Press/Invite
Andrea Heller - Inhabit at Parafin London
Andrea Heller - Inhabit at Parafin London @parafinlondon
For a moment I felt like I was in Andrea’s world, her work might be characterised as ‘serious play’, as she embraces contradictory impulses, like for example, organic and geometric, inside and outside, ugly and beautiful, playful and threatening, hard and soft.
I really liked the receptor series, which refer to internal processes of the (human) body which we hardly pay attention to in everyday life. They are based on considerations of sensory perception. In their form, the objects are reminiscent of sensory buds or receptor cells that have one or more openings/holes through which the outside communicates with the inside and vice versa. We explicitly expose ourselves to intensified sensory perceptions when we visit an exhibition, for example. At the moment when the ‘receptors’ are looked at, we receive inner and outer impulses, which in turn are able to trigger emotions, thoughts, memories...’
Small but beautiful!
📷 photos of me by @gaberaph
📍 18 Woodstock St., London, W1C 2AL
🎟 FREE
📆 Until 25 March 2023
Julian Opie at Lisson Gallery
Don’t worry you won’t turn into a different person everytime you go through the walls during this VR experience, but you will get really excited trying it out, as it is very different to any other VR experiences you have tried so far!
Go Go Go!!
Combine with Haroon Mirza exhibition at 67 Lisson Street and if you want a nice breakfast/lunch, boxcar is nearby.
*SPOILERS*
Read at your own risk
The VR experience is a virtual gallery exhibiting Julian Opie’s works and every time you go through the wall the room changes! Cool isn’t it?
📍Lisson Gallery, 27 Bell Street, London
🎟 FREE, VR needs a ticket though book
📅 until 15th of April
Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00am – 6:00pm
Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons at Hayward Gallery
