This exhibition presents the outcomes of a week-long co-design workshop led by Dr. Dilusha Rajapakse from the Royal College of Art, United Kingdom, exploring the creative and technological frontiers of adaptive aesthetics, the dynamic, evolving qualities of colour that shift and transform in response to environmental change. Through an intensive process of experimenting, dialogue, and speculative thinking, participants examined how colour might transcend its conventional role as surface embellishment to become a living, responsive force within design. Colour has long been recognised as a vital design element, mediating between form, meaning, and emotion. It shapes how we perceive, evaluate, and connect with materials, influencing both aesthetic experience and cultural interpretation. Yet the dominant history of colour in design has privileged stability and permanence, a view now being re-examined through the emerging potential of dynamic and adaptive colour technologies. As innovation in material science allows colour to change, reveal, and interact, new aesthetic and experiential possibilities unfold for designers and researchers alike. At the heart of this exploration are thermochromic materials, smart pigments that respond to heat by visibly shifting hue or transparency. These materials embody the notion of colour as an active property, engaging with temperature, touch, and environment to create a dialogue between material and observer. Within the workshop, participants investigated the technical and expressive capacities of these materials through hands-on experimentation, learning to activate, layer, and combine them to create evolving visual effects. The objective was not simply to master technique, but to reimagine how transformation itself might be designed as an aesthetic and emotional experience. A distinctive feature of the workshop was the introduction of colour-change effect cards and context cards, custom-designed co-design tools developed by Dr. Rajapakse to support critical and imaginative engagement. The effect cards documented a spectrum of thermochromic behaviours, while the context cards invited participants to situate those effects within speculative futures of use. Working collaboratively across disciplines, participants combined the two sets of cards to build future scenarios in which adaptive aesthetics could be applied meaningfully and impactfully from interactive textiles and responsive interiors to artefacts that convey emotion or environmental change. The works presented in this exhibition, ranging from posters and material experiments to visual narratives, capture the creative energy of this process. They represent moments of inquiry where design, science, and imagination converge. Some work emphasises sensory delight, using heat-activated transitions to evoke play and surprise; others focus on communication, envisioning adaptive surfaces as responsive interfaces; still others reflect on sustainability, imagining colour systems that draw power from natural stimuli rather than mechanical energy. Collectively, these outcomes demonstrate how adaptive colour can extend the vocabulary of design beyond static form. They position colour as an agent of interaction, one that connects people to materials, technologies, and environments in new and affective ways. By bridging material science with speculative design, this work illustrates the generative potential of interdisciplinary collaboration and research-led pedagogy. Ultimately, the exhibition celebrates colour as a living phenomenon, one that reveals the poetic and sensory potential of transformation. Through the collective creativity of participants and the facilitation of Dr. Rajapakse, the exhibition proposes futures in which colour responds, adapts, and connects, revealing that transformation itself can be one of design’s most profound aesthetic experiences.