A virtual-reality trip to Burning Man, the launch of an architectural intervention at Lisbon's MAAT museum and a live foraging tour in a Finnish forest are among the trailblazing events that took place as part of the world's first Virtual Design Festival.
For the festival, Dezeen teamed up with a number of cultural organisations whose plans had been derailed by Covid-19.
These included Stockholm Design Week, Serpentine Galleries, What Design Can Do, MPavilion and ArkDes, among many others.
With Virtual Design Festival ending on Friday, we take a look back at how these VDF collaborators worked with Dezeen to pioneer new ways of bringing cultural events to online audiences.
Below are five of the most innovative digital events to take place as part of the festival. Details of all our VDF collaborations can be found at dezeen.com/vdf/collaborations.
MAAT museum launched its SO-IL collaboration
Lisbon's MAAT museum collaborated with Virtual Design Festival for the launch of its Beeline installation and Currents exhibition by architect SO-IL. Both had been due to open on 27 March as the first part of executive director Beatrice Leanza's new programme for the museum, but were delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. MAAT instead premiered them on VDF.
Architecture studio SO-IL's Beeline installation, which creates a new public route through the middle of the museum, was showcased in an exclusive video, and VDF visitors were also given a sneak peek of the Currents ? Temporary Ar...