The Strange Everyday
Rethinking the Ordinary
Every day is often overlooked.
The objects we reach for without thinking.
The routines are repeated each day.
The familiar spaces that quietly shape how we live.
Yet within these ordinary moments lies enormous creative potential.
The Strange Everyday explores how design can transform the familiar into something unexpected. By shifting scale, material, context, or function, designers reveal new possibilities within the things we thought we already understood.
A chair might behave differently.
A household object might take on a new purpose.
A simple routine might become a performative act.
Through subtle interventions, playful experimentation, or speculative thinking,
designers can disrupt our habits and invite us to see the ordinary in new ways.
This exhibition invites works that challenge how everyday objects, actions, and environments are perceived and experienced.
From objects and installations to digital works, performances, and experimental practices,
The Strange Everyday celebrates design that uncovers the extraordinary hidden within daily life.
📅 17th - 18th September 12:00-19:00
📅 19th September 12:00-17:00
📍 9 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX
🎟️ No booking required
Selected Exhibiting Artists
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6 Awards To Go
Curator's Choice Award
Celebrating works where meaning is carried through material and process rather than explanation. This award recognises practices where transformation, surface, and structure communicate story, memory, or place. The work speaks through making, revealing intention in every material decision.
Honouring craft as lived experience. This award celebrates works where emotion, memory, and care are embedded within the act of making itself. Process, tactility, and sensitivity to material shape how the work is felt as much as how it is seen.
Selected by the curatorial team for its outstanding contribution to the exhibition’s theme, execution, and relevance within contemporary design discourse.
Emerging Designer Award
Recognising an emerging designer whose work demonstrates a distinctive voice and strong creative potential. This award celebrates practices that show clarity of vision, originality, and the ability to contribute meaningfully to the future of contemporary design.
Concept Award
Celebrating projects with a strong conceptual foundation. This award recognises works where ideas, critical thinking, and design intention are central to the work, shaping how it is understood and experienced.
Experimental Practice Award
Honouring practices driven by experimentation and exploration. This award celebrates designers who challenge conventional approaches through new processes, hybrid methods, or unconventional ways of making.