London Design Festival is a city-wide design programme featuring installations, exhibitions and product launches relevant to interiors and specification. It brings together companies and professionals from across construction and the built environment. There is an emphasis at the event on the products, systems, services and methods used to deliver projects. The exhibition element covers the supply chain, while conference and seminar content examines the operational issues shaping current construction activity.
What the event covers
The event programme combines commercial exhibition content with industry discussion. Manufacturers and suppliers present materials, technologies and services, while speakers address subjects affecting contractors, developers, consultants, designers and project teams. Technical sessions and demonstrations provide detail on how products or working methods are being applied. Meanwhile, conference stages give space to wider issues such as regulation, workforce capability, project delivery and decarbonisation.
The overall scope is therefore broader than a single product category. It reflects the interaction between construction materials, technology, professional services and project delivery, with different parts of the industry represented within one programme.
Across the programme, the event connects the physical products used in construction with the processes and professional services required to deliver them. This allows technical product information, project delivery issues and wider industry change to be addressed within the same event structure, rather than separating the exhibition from the subjects being discussed on its conference stages.
