Virtual Design Festival on the Run

Image: The Walden exhibition explores our relationship with nature, courtesy to Dezeen 

Running through 30 June, Virtual Design Festival is the world’s first online design festival.

Yesterday VDF  teamed up with Schloss Hollenegg for the virtual opening of an exhibition exploring the wilder side of nature, including a live tour of the historic castle.

The Walden exhibition explores our relationship with nature, courtesy to Dezeen 

On Saturday saw the opening of Walden, an exhibition exploring our relationship with the wilder side of the natural world, which features works by 22 designers.

"Many of the projects in the exhibition are about self-sufficiency and about finding a new approach to doing, making, living," said Stori Liechtenstein, who commissioned many of the works for the Walden exhibition.

Schloss Hollenegg in Austria is home to cultural programme Schloss Hollenegg for Design, courtesy to Dezeen

"It is the time to bring nature back in our everyday life; not the romanticised, sanitised, domesticated version of it, but the gritty, wild stuff. The current narrative around the environmental crisis offers conflicting and confusing information, it has been wrongly politicised, and often induces guilt without offering solutions."

"This makes accepting that our lifestyles need to be dramatically transformed, a painful process: we procrastinate, waiting for a miracle cure," she added.