LDF 2016: Highlights from the V&A

London – LS:N Global visited the Victoria and Albert Museum to discover the makers and concepts behind this year’s London Design Festival offering.

• Studio Glithero, Mathieu Lehanneur and Tabanlıoğlu Architects are all presenting as part of this year’s exhibition
• A robotically fabricated carbon-fibre pavilion is also on display in the V&A courtyard as part of a wider project looking at biomimicry in design

In the Tapestry gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Benjamin Hubert's multisensory steel installation made from 50,000 mirror-finish stainless steel panels reflects and scatters light around the space. ‘You get a scaled up sense of movement,’ says Huber. ‘We want to create a multisensory experience that people remember. Sometimes it takes the idea of scale, immersion and impact to bring the experience to life.’

Julian Melchiorri, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s engineer-in-residence, presented Silk Leaf, the first man-made biological leaf designed to harness natural photosynthesis in order to convert carbon dioxide into breathable oxygen using only water and light.