Viewing More than Human at Design Museum

Octopi, seaweed and giant hanging baskets – the Design Museum’s latest exhibition delights and surprises through radical rethinking of what it means to be human now. Created in collaboration with the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition, Future Observatory, the exhibition’s premise is that for humankind to thrive, other species must too.

The show’s concept is rooted in the ‘more-than-human’ design movement, and focuses on the creations and thinking of more than fifty designers, artists, architects and tech experts working across the globe to think beyond human needs and habits to the wider living and natural world as a source of inspiration, guidance and knowledge.

This is all tracked through some 140 pieces on display and divided into three sections, each encouraging visitors to think about “how humans can relearn to design with and for the natural world in the face of climate emergency.” Look out for the octopi – by revered Japanese artist Shimabuku, and an immersive seaweed installation courtesy Julia Lohmann, created specially for the show. The incredible baskets, meanwhile, come from the artisans of the Ye’kuana community in the Venezuelan Amazon.