The first wonderwater event takes place during Beijing Design Week. The pop-up cafe will take over an existing Chinese restaurant, Tian Hai. It is designed to raise awareness of the water footprint and to promote debate around the value of water whilst making us think about the impact of what we eat on local and global consumption.

Wonderwater at Tian Hai is a prelude to wonderwater in Helsinki 2012, an all-year project on water and designing for a sustainable future for the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012.

Wonderwater cafe, curated by Jane Withers and Kari Korkman, produced by Aalto University.

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Now in its 4th year, Brompton Design District promises a strong line up with an international focus. A pop-up programme of experimental design events will see the colonizing of a series of unexpected venues around Brompton by designers including Flock, OKAY Studio and the Marion Friedmann Gallery.

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Dutch design has been in the spotlight for over a decade but what makes it so compelling? EverydayDutch curated by Jane Withers at Selfridges proposes that at its core is the ability to bring imagination to ‘everydayness’. Part installation, part temporary shop: alongside concepts by five recent graduates from the Design Academy Eindhoven, EverydayDutch showcases works by designers including Aldo Bakker, Ineke Hans, Piet Hein Eek and Jo Meesters that reinvent everyday things.

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Jane and lighting expert Jonathan Speirs are keynote speakers at the publication launch of Light Volumes, Dark Matters by Claudia Dutson, at the Royal College of Art in association with the Megaman Charity Trust.

As consultants to Brompton Design District, now in its 4th year, we are delighted that this year’s programme is stronger than ever – a creative design hub where experimental thinking and innovative retail meet.

Visit SuperNatural, a food and design event celebrating the new rurbanism by StudioToogood at the Brompton Garage, North Terrace, SW3 2B

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Jane contributed the introductory essay to the monograph on leading American architect Annabelle Selldorf – recognised for projects from important historic renovations to a 20 storey Manhattan tower.

Camping amid amazing furniture in the darkened Jones Gallery at the V&A, In Praise of Shadows explores new European lighting design, the potential of low-energy and alternative energy sources, and how we think about light and darkness.

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Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, V&A. A discussion to accompany In Praise of Shadows with practitioners and experts exploring the impact of regulation change.

An exhibition staged in a guerrilla shop in South Kensington showing how design can be used to bring symbolism, sensuality and meaning to flowers.

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The first exhibition of the 1% Water project was held at Z33 in Belgium – an exploration of our relation to water, ideas that are shaping current change, and how this is being translated in designs and concepts that pave the way to a sustainable future.

1% Water at Z33 visual tour
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A cyclopaedic and illustrated volume of arcane, modern and commonplace wonders.

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An exhibition in Selfridges Wonder Wall of four young designers with very different takes on nature and the boundaries between nature and artifice.

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