Furniture & the changing position of the designer:
During London Design Festival two salons with panel discussions open for an audience are organised at Ace Hotel and the V&A that will look into the changing position of design and the designer and the future changes that might come. 
But there will also be presentations and other conversations at Victoria & Albert Museum, Brompton Design District and Somerset House as a result of cooperations with INEKEHANS|SALON.
FInd a shortcut to just all LDF dates here and a comprehensive list of all events below:
 

17 -25 sept: Cuckoo Eggs, see
rethinking and updating the V&A's furniture collection for 2017 and beyond - popup installation, see
A modest intervention in the V&A Furniture Galleries by Dutch designer Ineke Hans. As a temporary curator she places notes and remarks to the galleries' permanent display. With text and drawn interventions - placed in the Furniture Galleries as Cuckoo eggs, to be found as Easter eggs - Ineke Hans rethinks and updates the V&A's furniture collection for 2017 and beyond, read more
Where: V&A Museum - Furniture Galleries, rooms 133-135, The Dr. Susan Webber Gallery, Level 3
When: Mon-Sun 10am - 5.45pm, Friday 10am - 10pm, free event
With: a presentation of Ineke Hans
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17 -25 sept: Furniture is not working 2.0 - popup expo, see
Four emerging UK-NL designers all based in London present their collaboration with Opendesk and Ineke Hans at Brompton Design District. All four were asked to explore the future of work as well as that of open source design and production and base on that to come up with items that could meet our future furniture needs. On show: dado furniture (Adam Blencowe), the future of plywood (James Shaw), open for all (Paula Arntzen), Bundle (Thor ter Kulve).
The four projects are curated by Ineke Hans and feed and support the 2016 East London salons on 'the future of furniture design and the changing position of the designer', read more
Where: Brompton Design District, 3 Cromwell Place
When: Mon-Sat 11am - 6pm, Sun till 5pm & late night at Thur 22 Sept.
With: Adam Blencowe, James Shaw, Paula Arntzen, Thor ter Kulve
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19 Sept: Hybrids - conversation, see
The classic role designer-client has changed in the last 20 years. Selfproducing designers came up, taking care of sales and production completely on their own and the once existing single-minded furniture designer is hard to find. Designers work hybrid: on different subjects (furniture, interior, product) and in various contexts (limited editions, one offs, mass production, concept development craft and high technology).
Cooperating with design magazine Modern Design Review and as an appetizer for the late night event of the Shoreditch Design Triangle on 20 Sept. an informal conversation at Ace Hotel is curated between Dutch and UK designers that work in different disciplines and contexts. Max Fraser is moderating and together they will look into the changing position of the designer, what that means to their daily practice and the future changes that might come, read more
Where: Ace Hotel London, Shoreditch, topfloor
When: 19 Sept. bar open 6.30pm, start 7.00pm, free but rsvp
With: Piet Hein Eek, Yael Mer (raw-edges), Max Lamb
Free event but: RSVP needed via events at Ace Hotel
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21 Sept: Workplace Utopia - conversation, see
A conversation at the London Design Biennale between Ineke Hans & Jeremy Myerson from The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. They will discuss work-place utopias, the future of work spaces and the future of working and sharing spaces.
In 2016 The London Design Bienale is dedicated to the theme: 'Utopia'. Jeremy Meyerson is connected to The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and writer of 21st Century Office.
Where: Somerset House The Strand
When: 21 Sept. 4pm, book a seat
With: Jeremy Myerson & Ineke Hans

23 Sept: Engineers, Inventors & Non-Materialists - conversation, see
Young designers are nowadays active in different positions: as entrepreneur, engineer, strategist, inventor, community worker, or combinations of that. They share knowledge, cooperate with scientists and academics and sometimes there is not even a physical object anymore. Digitalisation and online exposure moreover seemed to have accelerated all of those developments to even bigger changes for design and the role of the designer.
For the Global Design Forum at the V&A a conversation is curated between Dutch and UK designers that looks into this changing position of the designer and the future changes that might come. Moderator Max Fraser talks to the youngest generation of designers about their drives and objectives in design, read more
Where: V&A Museum - Global Design Forum, The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Level 4
When: 23 Sept. 1.30pm - 2.30pm, book a seat
With: Marjan van Aubel, Paul Cocksedge, Sarah van Gameren (Glithero), Soft Baroque
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23 Sept: Furniture & the future - conversation at V&A Friday Late, see
Furniture is close to us. Literally. We always needed it and will need it in the future. But furniture has to deal with a rapid changing reality with changing production, promotion and selling methods, a surplus of furniture in a society where people move to smaller houses and offices and a society on the edge of consuming less and looking for different values for wellbeing than wealth. It has to get to terms with the digital, our current social context and new ways of living and working.
A conversation about the fun of and being fond of furniture and the future of furniture between a curator of the V&A, Ineke Hans - who made Cuckoo Eggs interventions in the Furniture Galleries during LDF and Gitta Gschwendtner - designer of the commisioned chair-bench in these Galleries. Moderated by Grant Gibson, read more
Where: V&A Museum - Global Design Forum, The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Level 4
When: 23 Sept. 7pm, free drop in
With: Gitta Gschwendtner, V&A, Ineke Hans
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23 Sept: Cuckoo Egss Q&A - activity at V&A Friday Late, see 
Ineke Hans answers questions and talks and takes you through the Cuckoo Eggs interventions that she made in the Furniture Galleries. For the second session Gitta Geschwendtner will join, read more
Where: V&A Museum - Furniture Galleries, rooms 133-135, The Dr. Susan Webber Gallery, Level 3
When: 23 sept. 6pm & 8pm, V&A, free drop in
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