Highlights from the inaugural edition of the Design Biennale Rotterdam, featuring experimental and collectible design from local and international designers. Across the city, participants have responded to the overarching theme: “What’s Real is Unfamiliar”.  

Highlights from the inaugural edition of the Design Biennale Rotterdam, featuring experimental and collectible design from local and international designers. Across the city, participants have responded to the overarching theme: &ldquo;What&rsquo;s Real is Unfamiliar&rdquo;.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Design Biennale Rotterdam

What impact can a sense of place have on what we make – and how we live? Join us for a discussion examining how a sense of place can combine with cultural DNA to create everything from distinct neighbourhoods to rugged four-wheel drives.

What impact can a sense of place have on what we make &ndash; and how we live? Join us for a discussion examining how a sense of place can combine with cultural DNA to create everything from distinct neighbourhoods to rugged four-wheel drives.

Sense of place

Live from Frieze London: We’re joined by JLR’s Nick Rolls and Collect’s fair director, TF Chan, to ask where art ends and design begins – and whether that line still matters. We discuss working between the two disciplines, collecting and making, as well as the rising market for functional objects.

Live from Frieze London: We&rsquo;re joined by JLR&rsquo;s Nick Rolls and Collect&rsquo;s fair director, TF Chan, to ask where art ends and design begins &ndash; and whether that line still matters. We discuss working between the two disciplines, collecting and making, as well as the rising market for functional objects.

Art and design

We tour this year’s Paris Motor Show with Chris Cermak and Chloé Nakao-Pélata. Renault Clio and Alfa Romeo’s chief designers detail the road ahead for mobility. Plus: Why EV design might finally be turning a corner.

We tour this year&rsquo;s Paris Motor Show with Chris Cermak and Chlo&eacute; Nakao-P&eacute;lata. Renault Clio and Alfa Romeo&rsquo;s chief designers detail the road ahead for mobility. Plus: Why EV design might finally be turning a corner.

Design Biennale Rotterdam

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