Key details
Location
- External (UK)
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Business Design Centre, London N1 0QH
Price
- Free
Who could attend
- Everyone
Type
- Exhibition
MA Interior Design students from the Royal College of Art will be showcasing their work at this year’s Surface Design Show, held at the Business Design Centre, Islington. This three-day event is a key moment in the design calendar, attracting over 6,500 visitors, including interior designers, architects, suppliers, and industry leaders.
Design is an act of transformation: of space, of material, of memory. The Surface Design Show’s theme, Creative Conscience, brings together a collective of designers and artists from the Royal College of Art, including current students, graduates, and artists-in-residence from the RCA superSATELLITE. Each engages with the poetic potential of sustainability, interrogating the afterlives of materials and the narratives they hold.
Through acts of reclamation and reinvention, we explore how materials embody memory, how spaces shape experience, and how the discarded might be reborn. From luminous objects forged from industrial remnants to sculpted surfaces that remind us of the urgent need to support nature’s resilience in the face of the climate emergency, our work exists in the tension between permanence and impermanence, function and emotion. Ceramics entwined with found materials, architecture dissolves into sensory experience, and spatial interventions blur the line between the human and the elemental.
This is a practice of reimagining; not just of waste, but of the systems and stories embedded within objects and our craft. Here, sustainability is not a constraint but a language, positioning emotional, cultural, and material sensitivity as a means of articulating new relationships.
Opening Times
4–9pm, Tuesday 4 February
10–8pm, Wednesday 5 February
10–5pm, Thursday 6 February
