Covering an array of disciplines, from furniture design to contemporary fashion, UK designers and architects are pushing the boundaries of their practice and looking to the future with their innovation and high standards of production. Our cultural relations work extends to all areas of UK architecture, design and fashion to showcase the most exciting and best work in partnership.

For more than 60 years the British Council has been collecting works of art, craft and design to promote abroad the achievements of British artists, craft practitioners and designers.

Since 1938 the British Council has been responsible for the British Pavilion in Venice, showing British artists at the longest-running, most prestigious international art biennial in the world: the Venice Biennale of Art. From 1991 the British Pavilion has also been home to architecture exhibitions in the alternate years to the Art Biennale.

At the 13th edition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture and Design, in 2012, the UK showed through the Venice Takeaway exhibition, proposals for British architecture inspired by an ambitious global research project. The aim was to inject new ideas into the UK and create a platform for discussion about what and who makes great architecture.
UK@THE VENICE BIENNALE

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After the Venice Biennale, the exhibition has grown as the ideas have been developed by the exhibitors, often in collaboration with other architects and students. As a result, on-going work by students and collaborators of the teams will be presented in a ‘Pin-Up Space’ in RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), Gallery two where - in collaboration with the British Council and the Architectural Association - an accompanying season of special events and international exchanges will be hosted until 23rd April. To know more

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The 14th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Rem Koolhaas, will take place from Saturday 7th June to Sunday 23rd November 2014

PAST EVENTS:

Design Week 2013, Milan.London design duo Raw Edges came up with a bookcase - commissioned by the British Council - shaped like a weaving loom to display novels by young British writers. To know more

Creative Conversations (in Architecture): Moira Lascelles Curator Special Projects from Architectural Foundation, in conversation with Giovanni Piovene of Salotto Buono and other guests (28 March)
EVENT IN COLLABORATION WITH ESTERNI

The International Fashion Showcase, launched by the British Fashion Council and the British Council took place during London Fashion Week (15-19 February). The work of over 110 international emerging designers were displayed. The public, together with international press and buyers, were given the opportunity to explore these innovative collections throughout the month of February. To know more

ONLINE RESOURCES:

• Everything Forever Now is a touring exhibition supported by the British Council showcasing contemporary approaches and innovations in sustainable design and utilising new technologies. Watch the video to know more
• Discover more about UK designers, architects and design movements through Design in Britain, our online research archive of modern and contemporary design developed in partnership with the Design Museum.
• Architecture, Design, Fashion Newsletter
  Every six months we publish a newsletter about our current projects and events, as well providing information about British architecture, design and fashion across the globe. We work on the production of each newsletter with an emerging graphic designer or agency and for this edition we commissioned Simon Elvins.
  If you would like to receive the newsletter (click below to see it), please contact arts@britishcouncil.org

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