Iryna Zubenko

It’s 1:30am in early July and the setting sun is painting pink streaks across a dark-blue sky. It’ll rise again in an hour or so, but I’m trudging towards my tent. Arctic terns circle overhead and the air is chilly but the campsite buzzes with life: late arrivals pitch tents and wool-clad teenagers stuff their hot dogs with crunchy onions. Across the fjord, lupins have turned the landscape purple.

From hemp houses to sustainable fashion, DesignMarch 2026 connects disciplines, materials, and people Despite it being May on the calendar, DesignMarch is back, once again ignoring its own name and sprawling across Reykjavík and even beyond May 6 to 10. Now in its 18th edition, the festival has grown to be one of the biggest in Iceland — or, in fact, the biggest, as Festival Director Helga Ólafsdóttir clarifies. “More people come to DesignMarch than Iceland Airwaves,” she says.

New information has been made public regarding the murders at The Edition hotel in Reykjavík in June 2025. Yesterday, the woman arrested at the scene was charged with the manslaughter of her daughter, allegedly acting together with her husband, reports RÚV. The woman’s name has now been made public for the first time. Ming Ting Mancel has been charged with the murder of her 29-year-old daughter, Catherine Mancel, but not her husband, Emeric Mancel, who was found dead in the same hotel room.