Clerkenwell Design Week
New Masterplan for Festival Announced
The seventh edition of Clerkenwell
fringe) will improve the flow and
New Venues and Exhibitions
Design Week (CDW) promises to be
navigation around the many and
New sites and structures will provide
the best and most ambitious yet, as new
varied elements, creating a compelling
enhanced possibilities for exhibitions
locations, brands and installations join
experience for the visitor as they
and programming; Design Fields,
this vibrant festival in one of London’s
explore all that Clerkenwell has to offer.
a large-scale curated exhibition of
most idiosyncratic and creative quarters.
OMMX, an emerging pract ice based
contemporary design, will be set in a
In a first for the festival, organisers have
in Clerkenwell, has developed a plan
specially constructed two-floor pavilion
appointed architecture practice OMMX
based on an understanding of context
at Spa Fields, near the exceptional
to create a strategic masterplan for the
and experiential quality. OMMX’s
Clerkenwell destination of Exmouth
event. The plan marks a significant point
work on the Clerkenwell Design Week
Market. Design Fields is set to become a
in CDW’s development, with the format
masterplan will help build a cohesive
festival favourite with live content and
expanding to eight exhibition venues,
story as the festival expands and
temporary spaces designed to connect,
a gateway destination to Clerkenwell’s
develops. Hikaru Nissanke and Jon
relax and recharge.
showrooms, an installation trail and a
Lopez, Directors of OMMX, said: ‘We
brand new destination at Spa Fields.
have worked collaboratively to realise
The park space at St James’s Church
Clerkenwell Design Week, sponsored
an ambitious and exciting new chapter in
Garden will become a key destination
by Renault, will take place 24 – 26 May
CDW’s history.
as part of Clerkenwell Design Week’s
2016 across Clerkenwell.
new look with the new exhibition
We are grateful for the organiser’s
Project hosting leading international
Strategic Masterplan
enlightened approach in continuing to
brands presenting furniture, lighting and
The new, integrated approach to
commission young practitioners, their
product design, alongside the hugely
planning the festival across both the
desire to make a lasting contribution and
successful interior products show
temporary (exhibitions and installations)
to make design more accessible in this
Additions.
and the permanent (showrooms and
critical part of creative London.’