Urban Harvest: Shoreditch Works London x London Design Festival 2025

As part of London Design Festival 2025, Shoreditch Works London will be presenting Urban Harvest, an exhibition and events programme focused on transforming the city from a place of consumption to a place of production, resourcefulness, community and connection.

Produced in collaboration with the Shoreditch Design Triangle, Crafts Council, Future Fabrics Expo (The Sustainable Angle), RAEBURN, Katy Mason Studio, Cassie Quinn, Brodie Neill, Ella Doran x Well Crafted, Katarina Rimarcikova, British Pasture Leather, Alice Robinson, Green Lab, Travel Things Museum, Daniel Heath Studio and ING, Urban Harvest is co-curated by the Young Craft Citizens (Crafts Council) in Hackney, Amanda Johnston, curator of the Future Fabrics Expo, and Yasmin Jones-Henry, cities strategist, culture & place, at ING.

Urban Harvest aims to showcase and celebrate the power of community-led regenerative design. The programme traces the story of place, materiality, community, craft and local production, revealing the career pathways and design journeys of renowned local and global makers and regenerative design studios in Hackney.

It will feature community craft and wellbeing workshops in partnership with the Shoreditch Trust and Hoxton Hall facilitated by Young Craft Citizens, Katy Mason Studio, Ella Doran and Well Crafted; panel discussions and expert guidance for those interested in career pathways into regenerative design hosted by Green Lab; and craft workshops with award-winning wallpaper and textiles designer Daniel Heath.

Yasmin Jones-Henry says: “Urban Harvest brings together the full supply chain within a regenerative design ecosystem. Our ambition with our exhibition partners is to tell the story of the role soil, agriculture, placemaking, material innovation, community and applied co-design plays in transforming a city and an industry here in east London.”

This ethos is exemplified by exhibition partner Brodie Neill, which will reveal how reclaimed timber can embody both memory and renewal, offering a vision of design’s regenerative future.

Meanwhile, a touch of quirkiness is provided by the Travel Things Museum. Founder Jill Tsai explains: “We’re thrilled to be collaborating for the first time with Shoreditch Works as part of Shoreditch Design Triangle at this year’s London Design Festival. Through our Travel Museum showcase – Beyond Borders: The Weird and Wonderful World of Things from Around the World – we’ll be inviting visitors to explore the curious, the quirky and the cultural sides of global living: a lively curation of travel objects and stories that spark connections across distances.”

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For full schedule: Shoreditch Design Triangle – Shoreditch Works Events Programme

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