Dezeen Events Guide has selected some of the best exhibitions featured on the site in 2024, from architecture spotlights to cafe takeovers. A Fragile Correspondence and Design You Can Feel are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this year. Other event highlights include Arab Design Now, I Will Follow the Ship and Origin of Simplicity: 20 Visions of Japanese Design.

Photo by Studio Periphery. Top photo by Chi Lam

Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design

2 September 2023 to 25 August 2024, USA

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City held an exhibition exploring a circular economy and materiality,displaying projects made from reused or regenerated matters.

Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design spotlighted objects such as bricks and lamps made from fungi and manure,encouraging visitors to think about alternative uses for waste materials.

Photo courtesy of the Barbican Centre

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

13 February to 26 May 2024, UK

The work of more than 50 global artists was on display at London’s Barbican this year, in an exhibition presenting tapestries and textiles that depict and explore themes of oppression and power, identity and community.

The exhibition featured more than 100 pieces of various scales, materials and colours, addressing the use of textiles beyond domestic spaces.

Dezeen was a media partner of Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art.