Park Royal Design District Festival x LDF 2025

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Park Royal Design District, London, UK presents a festival within a festival (13-14.09.25), featuring an inspiring and exciting programme of exhibitions, workshops, open studios, activities, walks and tours, art markets, and more, as part of London Design Festival 2025 (LDF).

Participating in LDF for the fifth consecutive year, Park Royal Design District is a non-profit established to support the creative community of Park Royal, which was previously a little-known industrial area but has since experienced a rapid cultural resurgence.

A major highlight of the Park Royal Design District’s programme is 11 Million Dots, one of Europe’s largest artworks created by artist Rafael El Baz in close collaboration with the local community. El Baz recorded ambient noise, machinery sounds, and over 120 audio interviews before transforming these sounds into a striking visual language that spans the six-story facade of Vantage Data Centers’ LHR21 facility.

Grace Williams, PRDD Programme Director, says: “Visitors to the area are consistently enthused and energised by the thriving creative community here. It is a prime example of the important role artists play in authentically regenerating former industrial areas.”

Park Royal Design District’s free 2-day celebration of art, design and community presents an unmissable cultural moment within the London Design Festival 2025.

Highlights of Park Royal Design District include:

11 Million Dots
Rafael El Baz
On display 13-21 Sept 24h, LHR21 Data Centre, Wesley Playing Fields, NW10 6PH
Spanning the six-storey facade of Vantage Data Centers' LHR21 facility, 11 Million Dots is one of Europe’s largest public artworks. Created in collaboration with the Park Royal community, artist Rafael El Baz collected ambient noise and machinery sounds from its streets and workshops, and recorded over 120 audio interviews with local residents and business owners.
Rafael translated his recordings into binary code and audio waveforms and manipulated them to create 11 million perforations that evoke microchips, maps and city landscapes. In keeping with PRDD’s sustainability priorities, waste heat will be recycled into energy for the local community. Visitors to the park will find QR codes directing them to the accompanying website where they can experience the soundscapes that inspired the work, and a ‘making of’ film can be watched at Minerva Works, 1-2 Minerva Road, NW10 6HJ. Commissioned by Vantage Data Centers - a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses - vantage-dc.com. Produced by Loom - loomprojects.co.uk.

Bill Amberg Studio Presents Next Generation in Experimental Leather Showcase in Partnership with Kingston University
Bill Amberg Studio www.billamberg.com
Open 13-19 Sept, 14 Minerva Road, London NW10 6HJ
Bill Amberg Studio is an industry leader in bespoke leather products, interiors and furniture with a history of over 30 years, bringing together artisans from the worlds of saddlery, bag making, bookbinding and other forms of fine leathercraft. For LDF, Bill Amberg Studio will open the doors to their London workshop and spotlight the next generation of material innovation with a dynamic showcase of experimental leather projects developed in collaboration with Kingston University’s Product & Furniture Design MA Course and The Leathersellers’ Foundation.

North Acton Village Hut
ReCollective and Social Designs
Open 13-16 Sept, North Acton Village Hut, North Acton Square, W3 6UP
Visitors can join clay plastering and timber cladding workshops, as well as join in on the construction of the North Acton Village Hut – a centrepiece in the new artists' village at North Acton Square by ReCollective and Social Designs.
This hut acts as a prototype for the structural application of reclaimed timber. An exemplary project of ‘anticipatory design’ – where the materials available predicate the design of construction systems – the project uses timber from the film industry in Park Royal to create prefabricated ‘timber cassettes’ for the hut. The hut will be finished using natural building techniques, including lime render and clay plaster, in collaboration with Rescued Clay, also based in Park Royal. Waste clay is being obtained from an HS2 site adjacent to the square.

Open Studio
Blast Studio
EX2, 41-43 Standard Road, London NW10 6HF
Visitors will see new pieces crafted using Cupsan, their material made from London’s discarded coffee cups, as well as furniture created in collaboration with Opendesk, including a desk pod, coffee table, and stool. The studio will also present more experimental works, such as 3D-printed sculptures exploring future uses of Cupsan and a research project developed with Baum & Leahy, involving 3D-printed clay bricks designed to host living organisms.

Consume
Regan Boyce Artist
Open 13-14 Sept, North Acton Square, North Acton Underground Station, Victoria Road, W3 6UP
Inspired by both vintage and modern consumerism, this immersive installation project by artist Regan Boyce, welcomes viewers into a shop-like experience where all that's on display is the packaging: brand identity printed onto rows of brown paper bags. The installation raises questions about motivations to buy in a world where brands have gained a cult-like trust from customers. Viewers will have the opportunity to purchase "consume" artwork at this installation, but will only be able to base their purchase on the packaging.

100 Year Dustpan Launch
Absolute Beginners Factory CIC
Launch event 13 Sept, Minerva Works, 1-2 Minerva Road, NW10 6HJ
Celebrating the launch of Absolute Beginners’ latest product: the 100 Year Dustpan. The dustpans are designed and made by local young people, using reclaimed scrap metal from old gas boilers. Absolute Beginners is a new kind of factory in Park Royal, where young people learn how to make everyday products in radically sustainable ways. 17–21-year-olds are taught to make new products from scratch using waste materials, hand tools, and low-carbon power, and paid London Living Wage.

The Beings Furniture Collection. Functional, Sculptural, Cultural.
David Samuel
Open 13-14 Sept, North Acton Square, North Acton Underground Station, Victoria Road, W3 6UP
A family of stools, side tables, and a coffee table – all made in small batches using a mix of birch ply, recycled materials, MDF and hand-applied finishes.

Rescued Clay
Handbuild small sculptures with local clay workshop
Open 13-14 Sept, Minerva Works, 1-2 Minerva Road, NW10 6HJ
A workshop at the Rescued Clay studio using locally rescued construction-site clay to explore memories through touch, transforming reclaimed clay and other local waste materials into unique tiles and small sculptures.

PROGRAMME + VISITOR INFORMATION

Park Royal Design District is taking part in London Design Festival 2025, with a free 2-day celebration of art, design and community on 13–14 September 2025.

Taking place across 14 locations in Park Royal, the programme includes exhibitions, workshops, open studios, activities, walks and tours, art markets and stalls, food and drink, parties, and launch events. Free workshops range from clay plastering and crochet to book binding. The full programme can be viewed here: https://www.parkroyaldesigndistrict.com/ldf-2025

PARK ROYAL DESIGN DISTRICT
NW10 6HF
Closest Tube is North Acton or Harlesden

About Park Royal Design District
Park Royal Design District (PRDD) is a non-profit organisation, that aims to support and promote the local community of over 250 artists and makers, through two annual festivals, a directory of creatives and other year-round events.
With major development on their doorstep; including the new HS2 station at Old Oak Common, a major new Science and Tech hub for Imperial College London at North Acton; and a target of over 13,000 new homes by 2029; the area is on the brink of huge change.
Since 2021, PRDD have built strong relationships with local authorities and developers, with the aim of ensuring the close-knit, but rapidly-growing creative community retains a strong presence in the area, and is given the opportunity to inform and influence the new places that will emerge through one of London's largest regeneration projects.