We are thrilled to announce our open call for designers, artists, and makers to take part in our upcoming exhibition, 

No One Has Taught Me This, held during London Design Festival from 19–21 September 2025.

📍 9 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX (3,000 sq ft)

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This curated group show explores intuitive making, non-traditional learning, and personal processes that challenge conventional ways of knowing. We invite submissions from those working across disciplines—whether self-taught, formally trained, or somewhere in between—whose work speaks to instinct, experimentation, and knowledge gained outside the classroom.

About the Theme

There are things we carry in our hands before we name them. Practices passed through observation, instinct, repetition. Knowledge that doesn’t come from instruction, but from doing.

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No One Has Taught Me, a group exhibition that celebrates intuitive making, non-traditional learning, and the untaught wisdom of the body. It asks how we learn—outside classrooms, beyond institutions—and how these ways of knowing shape the work we create.

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From inherited gestures to experimental processes, from mistakes that became methods to stories embedded in form, the exhibition invites designers, artists, and makers to share works that were born out of necessity, curiosity, and personal discovery. This is a space for techniques that defy manuals, for materials handled on instinct, and for practices that push back against formalism.

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The exhibition encourages entries from a wide range of mediums—objects, sound, performance, moving image, and hybrids. We welcome the unfinished, the unpolished, the unexpected.

What We Are Looking For

• Intuitive, self-directed, or experimental approaches
  Work developed through instinct, improvisation, or personal exploration—rather than traditional instruction or formal design systems.

• Non-institutional learning and individual methodologies
  Practices shaped by lived experience, cultural inheritance, or self-teaching, which challenge conventional notions of expertise.

• Critical engagement with traditional systems of making
  Projects that question, subvert, or reinterpret established knowledge, methods, or materials within design and craft.

• Emotionally resonant or personally driven processes
  Work rooted in personal narratives, emotional experience, or the body as a site of knowledge.

• Cross-disciplinary, hybrid, or unconventional practices
  Innovative approaches that defy categorisation—spanning craft, design, performance, sound, text, digital or participatory forms.