London Design Biennale is a global stage for world-leading contemporary design and design-led innovation, creativity and research.

The theme for 2023 is The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations.

The fourth edition will take place at Somerset House 1-25 June 2023. 

Het Nieuwe Instituut

London Design Biennale Artistic Director for 2023 is Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Dutch national museum and institute for architecture, design and digital culture. Led by its General and Artistic Director, Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut  aims to explore the biennale’s format of national and territorial pavilions through ‘The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations’, a theme which will be further developed on the journey to June 2023.

Participants from across the globe will be invited to imagine and enact new forms of international cooperation and participation—including with each other—through the medium of design. 

At a time of growing global complexity, countries, territories and cities are invited to interpret and examine the topic in their own way. However, Het Nieuwe Instituut will be launching a process that participants can also use to help define, form and create these collaborations. A first look into the process was revealed during the London Design Biennale Summit on 25 May 2022 in London at Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs: Watch Aric Chen's presentation The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations.