London Design Festival 2025

Sacred Grounds (19–21 Sept) at Paradox Design + Coffee invites visitors to collage, weave, write, and record, reimagining sacred spaces through wellbeing and a collective Slow Design Wall. While you create, you can enjoy and purchase Paradox’s limited-edition Sacred Grounds coffee blend, crafted especially for the festival.

Over three days, the café becomes a studio for reflection and making, where visitors are invited to reimagine mosques and community places through the lens of the Five Ways to Wellbeing: Connect, Notice, Give, Learn, and Be Active.

Guided by the principle that form follows feeling, guests respond to open prompts through hands-on creative practices. The tools remain the same each day: collage, weaving and audio recording — but the prompts and themes shift daily, giving visitors fresh entry points into slow, sensory design.

Across all three days, visitors may:

• Collage: A5 artworks made with magazines, cut-outs, text, and fabrics.
• Weaving: Simple card looms with fabric scraps and thread, curating colour and texture.
• Audio: Short recordings of words, stories, or memories that will form part of a collective film.
• The Slow Design Wall: A living installation that grows across the three days, weaving all contributions into a shared tapestry of imagination and belonging.

Day 3 – Designing with Future
Prompt: What would you like future generations to thank you for in this space?
The final day looks forward, inviting participants to work backwards. What feelings, activities, and gifts can we carry into the future?

By dusk, the Slow Design Wall is at its most layered — fabric, text, postcards, collages, and voices curate a group artwork.

Sacred Grounds is both an exhibition and an invitation — a space where coffee and conversation meet creativity and care. It remains free and accessible to anyone curious to join. Each contribution, whether a textile, a colour palette, or a postcard to the future, becomes part of a shared work that honours memory, nurtures presence, and imagines new possibilities.

This event is free and open to all. You don’t need a ticket to join — Eventbrite registration just helps us get a sense of numbers and plan materials. Feel free to drop in at any time.

✨ Sign up via Eventbrite: Sacred Grounds – Day 3: Designing with Futures

Image courtesy of Paradox Design + Coffee