Speakers for our first two seasons were Martino Gamper, David Adjaye, Es Devlin, Edmund de Waal, Olga Polizzi, Peter Saville, Ilse Crawford, Amanda Levete, Erdem Moralıoğlu, and Phyllida Barlow. Listen and watch our full archive of talks here.
Design can be found in everything we touch, see and hear.
In the summer of 2023, Sir John Soane’s Museum and Luke Irwin presented a fourth season of By Design, a public talk series in which leading designers discuss their practice, through the lens of a single object.
Co-hosted by Will Gompertz, the Soane's new Director, and Alice Rawsthorn, award-winning design critic and author, we reflected on the power of objects – large or small, mundane or exceptional, aesthetic or utilitarian – to spark new ideas and act as a spur for different forms of creativity.
Listen to the recordings of our speakers from seasons three and four below.
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