Alicja Patanowska: The Ripple Effect in V&A at London Design Festival 2025 @Culturepl_magazine
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Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The seating installation, embedded with a fountain, addresses the circulation of water and matter. Partly made from mining waste from Poland, it invites reflection on our contested relationship with natural resources. The mining waste was sourced from Żelazny Most in southwest Poland – one of the largest reservoirs for mining waste in Europe.

The Ripple Effect refers to the knock-on impact of our daily consumption, raising questions over its long-term effect of natural resource extraction on our ecology as well as social relations. The installation is covered with 2,000 hand-made ceramic tiles, eight of which are coated with copper. This ratio poetically visualizes the complex relationship between extracted waste and the material yield in mining.

Ceramic installation by Polish artist and designer Alicja Patanowska was created for the John Madejski Garden as part of the programme curated by the V&A for London Design Festival 2025.

The Ripple Effect
V&A South Kensington
September 13 – October 19, 2025

Artist: Alicja Patanowska
Architect: Agata Woźniczka BUD CUD

V&A South Kensington
Curator: Carrie Chan
Producers: Catriona Macdonald and Adonis Fuyana

Video: Michał Sierakowski
Co-directors: Carrie Chan and Michał Sierakowski

This installation is part of the UK/Poland Season 2025 co-organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, British Council and Polish Cultural Institute in London and supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Poland.
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