Partner Event for London Design Festival 2026
12th - 20th Septmeber
The Annex - 1 Tiverton Street, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6NT
https://londondesignfestival.com/activities/known-terrain
Exploring how places, systems and relationships become familiar over time. Rather than a fixed condition, familiarity is understood as something continually shaped through movement, repetition and exchange. Works examine shifting perspectives, everyday encounters and landscapes around us.
Show 1: Structures of Place, Memory and Transformation
Dates: 12th -15th Sep
The first show explores how architecture, infrastructure and landscapes become familiar through movement, repetition, reuse and exchange. Bringing together works that engage with place as an evolving condition, the exhibition considers how memory, material traces and everyday encounters shape our understanding of the environments we inhabit, and how these places transform over time.
Exhibiting artists:
Abbie McKelvie, Anna Sergiel, Ana Vigil Escalera, Batool Zehra, Danlu Zheng, Devansh Soni, Engin Demir, Haibo Jia, Kaiyuan Yang, Kengo Horikoshi, Lezhi (Crystal) Zhang, Lifeng Liao, Loren Herring, Mabel Nash, Mandy (Fangning) Liu, Michelle Widjaja, Muchuan Chen, Qun Fu, Jiemin Ren, Rong Lin, Shijia Huang, Yu Ai, Veronika Russakova, Wanqi Zhu, Xintong Dong, Xinyun He. XinYue Ma & Alexander Collinson, Xiuzhuo Zhou, Xiyu Wang, Zeyuan Ren, Zhenghan Huang.
Show 2: Systems of Self, Ritual and Becoming
Dates: 17th -20th Sep
The second show explores how identities, rituals and cultural systems are shaped through encounters with technology, AI and emerging futures. The exhibition considers the self as fluid and continually constructed, examining how new technologies, inherited rituals and shifting cultural frameworks transform how we understand ourselves, one another and the worlds we inhabit.
Exhibiting artists:
Anshika Gauri Agrawal, Binciya Hamza, Susanna Steuerman Kinston, Minjeong Kim & Charlotte Yang, Charles Kenyon Vaughan, Charles Lambert, Diego Cebrián, Finka(Yunlong Jue), Jingxuan Yang, Joshua Roberts, Klaudia Pacharew, Lucy Sabin, Mengnan (Mona) Gao, Mengmeng Zeng, Monica Dhaka, Nomi Wang, Quiet Matter, Riichiro Yamamoto, Ruby Eve Hall, Runhua Liu, Seokyung Jeong, Timothy Yufit, Yagmur Karaman, Yanxiao Liu, Xueqing Liang.