With light shows, VR and 3D York’s first ever Design Week is a celebration of creativity for all

All week: Grow!

Germinate your own oak tree at home! Snowhome is teaming up with York Design Week to distribute 246 acorns to start to take small steps to reduce carbon footprint. Use the hashtag #yorkoak to share your oakling growing! Collect your acorn and instructions from Snowhome.

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24-31 October: Lighting up the Minster

See York Minster in a different light this autumn as the awe-inspiring Northern Lights returns by popular demand.

The sound and light installation, which debuted to sell-out audiences in June 2018, will again transform the cathedral’s cavernous Nave with images and audio inspired by the medieval Minster’s stained glass and stone.

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25 October: Favourite colour

Ever wondered what the colour of York would be? Join GF Smith at York St. John for a talk all about ‘The World’s Favourite Colour’, part of their international study into colour, emotions and associations.

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26-27 October: Jellyfishin’

Step into an underwater virtual world! This free VR experience is aimed at primary school children to help raise awareness about the effects of plastic on the ocean. Listen and interact with the sea creatures about what they have to say.

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26 October-2 November: Playful data

An interactive installation that asks what you feel about transport and sustainability! Situated in the National Railway Museum, take a journey through a series of arches and answer questions by mapping a ribbon through multiple-choice holes. Watch how it slowly transforms into a tunnel of colour the more people take part.

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27 October: Family workshop

Explore playful 3D shapes and designs in a family workshop led by designer Anna Manfield. This workshop encourages children to come and design their own play space using craft materials.

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28 October: Found fiction

It takes a city to write a story! The Writing Desk have toured literary festivals across the UK and are here for York Design Week. Help ‘co-write a masterpiece’ and visit the desk to add a line to an ongoing short story.

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30 October: Whose problem?

This long table event is a collaborative conversation for our future. Everyone is invited to join in the discussion – ‘historians, councillors, teenagers, creative practitioners, students, environmental activists’. This discussion will promote the message that everyone is creative, that culture is made by us, and inspiring a move towards cultural democracy.

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