Tuesday from London Design Festival 2024

The Dezeen team is reporting live from London Design Festival, which takes place 14-22 September. Read on for all the coverage from Tuesday 17 September.

10:30am – protest design

Given the state of global politics, it comes perhaps as no surprise that more than one show at this year's LDF is focused on the design of protests.

While architecture Studio Bark is taking over the V&A's Gallery 127 with its take on "protest architecture" (see Dezeen's live blog from the opening day), the Praxis N16 workshop in Stoke Newington is hosting an exhibition of placards, posters and architectural interventions by 16 different studios.

Many of the textile works featured in the group show grapple with the brutality of the ongoing Israel-Palestine war, including a traditional keffiyeh scarf embroidered with graphic images by documentary photographer Jenny Matthews and the Grief Quilt for Palestine, which invites participation as an act of solidarity and collective grieving.

Make sure you visit the courtyard to see one of the towering bamboo tensegrity towers developed by design collective Project Bunny Rabbit for Extinction Rebellion, which can be rapidly deployed but are difficult to remove – and were famously subject to a police raid.

Bonus points if you spot Praxis N16's resident feline.

10:00am – danishes, of course

Dezeen deputy editor Cajsa Carlson swung by Danish design brand Hay's London showroom in Shoreditch to see the brand's latest news and get a taste of Copenhagen.

Among the new pieces on show were the brand's first trainers, launched with ASICS during the 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen, in two new colours – purple and brown. At the showroom, these were shown with matching pyjamas, making it easier to dress for getting from the bedroom to the boardroom.

The brand also gave a sneak peek of its relaunched X-Line chair, a high-tech design by Danish designer Niels Jørgen Haugesen from the late 1970s.

In Hay's version, the original steel-coloured chair sits alongside new iterations in a variety of muted hues that can be combined for a fun effect.

It wouldn't be a Danish day without some danishes!

At Hay, they came from authentic bakery Ole & Steen and consisted of stænger – braided sweet soft dough pastry, filled with vanilla custard and cinnamon paste topped with icing. It made it easy to pretend to be in Copenhagen.

9:30am – and we are back

We are back reporting on this year's London Design Festival (LDF). Dezeen's design editor Jennifer Hahn, design and interiors reporter Jane Englefield, social editor Clara Finnigan and editorial intern Douglas Jardim are on the ground in London reporting live.

Catch up on what happened on Monday here including the Reclaimed: The Silo Collection exhibition, a Yinka Ilori pop-up shop (picture top) and a sneak preview of our Design You Can Feel exhibition, which opens today.

To keep you up to date on all the festival activities Dezeen Events Guide has created an LDF guide, highlighting the key events at the festival this year.

To stay up to date, follow Dezeen live: London Design Festival, taking place from 14-22 September 2024. Dezeen Events Guide has created a LDF guide, highlighting the key events at the festival. See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.

Read about everything that happened on the opening day (13 September) and Monday (16 September).

All times are London time.

The lead image is by Clara Finnigan.

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