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The London Design Biennale 2025, the capital’s showcase of global creativity and design innovation runs from 5 - 29 June at Somerset House. Curated by Artistic Director Dr Samuel Ross MBE, the event brings together over 40 international pavilions under the theme Surface Reflections.

At OVS, we’ve collated our 7 London Design Biennale 2025 highlights.

Hong Kong Pavilion – Human-Centred Design: Visuospace

Human-Centred Design: Visuospace utilises neuroscience and visuospatial processes to explore the relationship between spatial design, human emotion, and psychology across multiple dimensions. The project aims to improve our understanding of how to “live and build well.”  At OVS our design practice is led by how people feel and experience a space. This project examines how design can be utilised to enhance human experience, emotions, and well-being.  

Chile Pavilion - Materia Prestada

A deep understanding of materials is central to our design process at OVS. The Chile Pavilion’s Minerasophia: Underground Cycles explores the artistic, cultural and inherent properties of materials. This audiovisual installation critiques large-scale extraction industries and looks to sustainable practices, urging designers to consider the environmental impact of their materials.

The European Union Pavilion – Global Gateway

We understand firsthand that good design involves collaboration. Through real-world projects, the EU’s Global Gateway initiative proposes a bold vision for building fair, sustainable global partnerships. Visitors are invited to reflect on design’s power to drive positive global change.

Guided Tour: Material Innovation, 7 & 8 June

At OVS, we pride ourselves on using materials to solve problems and tell design stories. This tour features three projects: Chrysalis, Greener Greenhouse, and Stone Plus – presenting fabrication techniques, sustainable processes and new approaches to sustainable materials.

Japan Pavilion – Paper Clouds: Materiality in Empty Space

Paper Clouds: Materiality in Empty Space is a poetic fusion of design, music, and fashion from Japan and the UK that presents a moment of reflection. Using Washi paper, it explores lightness, strength, and the beauty of empty space. The project features wearable art, live performances, and youth workshops—celebrating tradition, innovation, and our bond with nature.

Talk: Connecting Past and Future – The Importance of Heritage in Contemporary Culture, 9 June

At OVS we are passionate about how good design blends heritage and modernity. This talk promises to take a global perspective on the subject with the following speakers; Toshiki Hirano Co-Director of SEKISUI HOUSE - KUMA LAB at The University of Tokyo and Project Leader of the Japan Pavilion, Japan Pavilion Curator Clare Farrow, Reem Al Hosani Product Design & Development Specialist, Abu Dhabi Pavilion, and Assistant Curator for the Uzbek Design. Pavilion, Alsu Akhmetzyanova.

Eureka: Northumbria University and UCL – Living Assembly

Building and designing with nature is a key component of many OVS projects. Living Assembly: Building with Biology by Northumbria University and UCL envisions a future where buildings are grown, not built. Showcasing materials made by microbes and fungi - like mycelium, bacterial leather, and living ceramics - it blends biology, design, and technology to explore self-forming, responsive structures that evolve with their environment.

Get In Touch

The London Design Biennale promises to inspire and provoke critical thought on sustainability, community, and the future of design. Whether you’re an industry insider, a commercial developer or an interior design enthusiast, beautiful design is essential to the value of any project, big or small, get in touch with OVS today to discuss how we can apply design innovation to your project.