Material Matters 2026 - Zieta Studio in London

Taking place at UNLOCKED Shoreditch as part of Shoreditch Design Week and the London Design Festival, the fifth edition of the fair brings together practices exploring new relationships between material, technology, craft and design. Zieta Studio joins the programme alongside Pani Jurek Studio, presenting two distinct approaches to material experimentation emerging from Poland. 

At the entrance to the fair, Zieta Studio will present the Whispers Bench, a unique sculptural seat originating from Whispers, the public installation first unveiled at Ludgate Hill in London’s Fleet Street Quarter during the London Festival of Architecture 2025. Formed through FiDU — our proprietary process of free internal pressure deformation — the bench embodies Oskar Zięta’s structural approach to metal, in which air becomes a tool for transforming flat steel membranes into complex, three-dimensional forms. At Material Matters, the work takes on a more intimate role: a place to pause, while retaining the structural language of the original public sculpture.