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This year, WDCD Mexico delves into the exploration of play, collectivity, and collaborative processes within design to showcase projects that address some of the world’s most urgent challenges such as climate change, gender inequality, economic disparity, and the colonisation of creative thinking in an impactful way. This edition focuses on diverse initiatives and designers from […]
Feria Valencia will host next year a new joint call for large international monographic fairs around the habitat sectors. Thus, from September 30 to October 3, 2024, a new edition of Feria Hábitat València, TEXTILHOGAR Home Textiles Premium and Espacio Cocina SICI will be held simultaneously. Both the furniture, lighting and decoration event and the […]
From 17 October to 3 November 2024, WONDER in the Kortrijk city centre pushes the boundaries of your imagination. Young creative force and established names from all walks of life and disciplines - from design, innovation, technology to art - will present their vision of a better future. WONDER takes you along a free tour […]
Design for Planet Festival is back for the fourth year and this time we are heading to Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. Join our incredible online programme of Manchester-based businesses, government leaders and design experts to discover how design can achieve both economic and environmental good. WDO Member: Design Council
DesignTO Festival isn’t just about events, it’s about making real change. Celebrating 15 years of impact, DesignTO brings people together to design a better future that’s sustainable, just, and joyful. As Canada’s largest non-profit design festival, the 10-day event features 100+ free events and exhibitions, both online and in-person, across Toronto.
The 2025 Finnish Architecture and Design Days will be celebrated from 31 January to 7 February under the theme 'Traces of use'. Now in its fifth year, the national festival will focus on celebrating the use, maintenance and repair of buildings and objects. The theme explores our relationship with tolerating patina and imperfections, and highlights […]
The eighth edition of the festival will once again make the city the focal point. An event where design displays its transformative power, best practices, initiatives and projects that reveal how design is an essential tool to address multiple challenges of a constantly changing society. Through its extensive programming, and under the theme Redesigning the […]
From September 1-30, 2025, the city will transform into a showcase of cutting-edge design, bringing together creatives, innovators, and visionaries from around the world. Events span every corner of Detroit, offering immersive exhibitions, hands-on workshops, installations, and more—all highlighting the creative energy that makes Detroit a UNESCO City of Design. The open call to participate […]
WDCD Live Delhi 2025, marks What Design Can Do’s South Asian debut, addressing climate action and social change. Hosted at the India Habitat Centre, the festival will gather designers and changemakers to explore regenerative solutions, community-driven design, and the role of emerging technologies. In partnership with Unbox Cultural Futures and The Design Village, the event […]
The NYCxDESIGN Festival is New York City’s official celebration of design, and its most impactful annual design event. Each year the Festival is an opportunity to spotlight New York City as a leading global design center, build opportunities for diverse design voices, and key to our position as a cultural capital.
The world’s biggest challenges demand the world’s biggest solutions. Join changemakers and thought leaders from around the globe for three dynamic days of virtual live-streams and in-person connections. Dive into practical insights and inspiring use cases from the built environment and textiles sectors—two of the most resource-intensive industries. Gain strategies from sector trailblazers, explore innovative […]
The theme nie_koniec / un_end defines the character of Łódź Design Festival 2025, emphasizing constant inquisitiveness and curiosity in design. Its open concept fosters alternative, adaptive paths for design and architecture in a changing world. nie_koniec / un_end also speaks of the infinite relationship between the individual, such as the role of the designer in creative processes, with […]
Detroit Month of Design is a citywide collaboration of creativity that gathers designers and the greater community to celebrate Detroit’s role as a national and global design capital. Detroit Month of Design returns for its 15th annual edition this September 1-30, 2025! Every September, partners across Detroit—from emerging studios to established companies and educational institutions—come […]
London Design Festival was launched by Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE in 2003. Building on London’s existing design activity, their concept was to create an annual event that would promote the city’s creativity, drawing in the country’s greatest thinkers, practitioners, retailers and educators to a deliver an unmissable celebration of design. The […]
Seoul Design Festival is a design-specialized exhibition based on contents accumulated by DESIGN magazine since 1976 and networks of domestic and foreign design industry. The first Seoul Design Festival was held in 2002. Seoul Design Festival is designed to enhance design competitiveness of domestic and foreign brands by showing design trends along with corporate brands […]
The Luxembourg Design Festival will take place from 13 to 16 November 2025. Building on the success of the European Design Festival 2023, this new event will feature a rich and varied programme, including conferences, workshops, exhibitions, immersive experiences, and much more. Several iconic venues across the City of Luxembourg will host activities, with the […]
3daysofdesign is Denmark’s Official Design Festival conceived as a platform to showcase and celebrate creativity. Held each year in Copenhagen, it's a visibility opportunity for emerging and established talents from Denmark and abroad to present their brand, their stories, new product launches and latest collections to an avid audience of design enthusiasts from around the […]
From 11–14 June 2026, Sofia becomes the meeting point for Europe’s creative community as the European Design Festival celebrates its 20th edition in one of the continent’s most layered and dynamic capitals. Organised by Studio Komplekt and the Melba Foundation for Design and Visual Culture, the festival brings together award-winning designers, studios, thinkers and emerging […]
Busan Design Festival (BDF) is a design event that was held for the first time in 2021 in Busan, a place that has the potential to grow into a design cultural city. It will be a global design exhibition where domestic and foreign design brands, companies, and designers will participate and exhibit design content to […]
To kick off the dreams, ideas & prototypes exhibition, the WDC Campus will transform the Museum Angewandte Kunst and the Metzlerpark into a hub for connection, debate, and dialogue. Featuring music, artistic interventions, lectures, workshops, and panel discussions, the festival opens up diverse pathways into the exhibition's core themes and invites visitors to explore future […]
