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French designer Erwan Bouroullec spoke about Kvadrat Shade, the roller-blind solution he designed with his brother Ronan for Kvadrat, in this live talk as part of a collaboration with the Danish textile brand for VDF. More about Live talk with Erwan Bouroullec for Kvadrat Shade at Virtual Design Festival

For the second part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Melbourne's MPavilion, we present interviews with architects Bijoy Jain, Rem Koolhaas, David Gianotten, Carmé Pinos, Sean Godsell and Glenn Murcutt. More about VDF and MPavilion present video talks with Rem Koolhaas, Carme Pinós, Glenn Murcutt and more

Sonia Boyce, Elvira Dyangani Ose, David Kohn and others took part in a panel discussion about the role of art and culture in shaping the built environment, as part of Therme Art's collaboration with Virtual Design Festival today. More about Therme Art and VDF present a talk on the role of art and culture in the built environment

Marta Giralt investigates how nanotechnology could make the fashion industry more environmentally friendly for this Virtual Design Festival collaboration. More about Marta Giralt explores how graphene could make fashion industry more sustainable for VDF and Design Museum

As part of today's VDF's collaboration with Design Museum, London-based architect Stiliyana Minkovska is hosting a panel discussion on designing for pregnancy and childbirth. More about Stiliyana Minkovska identifies blindspots of maternity design in panel discussion for VDF and Design Museum

In the second part of Virtual Design Festival's day of talks with What Design Can Do, designer Anoushka Khandwala and fashion curator Sunny Dolat discussed how colonialism has shaped design. More about Live talk on decolonising design as part of VDF's collaboration with What Design Can Do

What Design Can Do is live-streaming three talks focusing on social justice in design in collaboration with VDF today. The first is with journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who will discuss challenging bias and misrepresentation in the news. Watch the talk from 11:00am UK time. More about Live talk on social justice in design with What Design Can Do and Virtual Design Festival

Architect Stephan Hürlemann discusses his flexible Dancing Office concept during a live Screentime conversation as part of our VDF x Vitra collaboration. More about Live interview with Stephan Hürlemann as part of Virtual Design Festival

Es Devlin, Zoé Whitely, Marc Spiegler and others joined a live panel discussion organised by Therme Art for VDF, which examined the value of cultural events amidst global unrest. More about Therme Art and VDF present a talk on the importance of live events during global crises

Gaetano Pesce implores young designers to consider how to address social issues through their work, which he says has a greater capacity to communicate with people than art, in our latest collaboration with Friedman Benda for VDF. More about "Young designers have to understand they are practising art" says Gaetano Pesce