Today's VDF collaboration with London's Serpentine Galleries kicks off with an exclusive premiere of its latest podcast, which features artists and designers Formafantasma, Dunne & Raby and Black Quantum Futurism, ahead of a live talk exploring the political and ecological impact of materials.

Titled Back to Earth: Tracing the Roots, the latest Serpentine Galleries podcast episode is co-hosted by artist Victoria Sin and Rebecca Lewin, curator of exhibitions and design at the Serpentine Galleries.
The pair are joined by London design studio Dunne & Raby, artistic collective Black Quantum Futurism and Italian design duo Formafantasma, who curated the current Cambio exhibition (pictured top) at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, which had to close due to the coronavirus pandemic. Cambio exhibition by Formafantasma at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery
The podcast explores what design looks like when it begins from a position of ecological responsibility and what it means to design with and for the non-human.
In the episode, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma discuss their Cambio exhibition and the ways in which the project will be intertwined with the course they are initiating at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2020.
Dunne & Raby co-founders Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby talk about their relationship to speculative design, the importance of teaching in their practice as designers and the role of museums to communicate radical design thinking.
The episo...