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The Fuorisalone and the Salone del Mobile Week have united to define Milan Design Week, one of the world’s most important design events. For a week, Milan abounds with themed events, presentations, concerts, DJ sets and special projects related to the world of design, furniture and innovations in living solutions. Website
The international conference DesignTalks is the signature event of DesignMarch, Iceland´s design festival. It is illustrating the spectrum of design and architecture, its relevance, power, potential and responsibility in today’s society. A full day of inspiration. Website
World Industrial Design Day 2020 celebrates the amazing power of ‘design for everyday life‘, recognizing the value and benefits of design on the products and services that make our lives easier and more efficient. Join us on WIDD2020 as we recognize the practicality of design, as well as reflect on our increasing obsession with things. […]
Designers now have an important social task to fulfill. After the success of the previous editions of Madrid Gráfica, and in a challenging year that requires messages of encouragement, encouragement and responsibility, DIMAD and the Madrid City Council, with the support of the Madrid Business Forum, summon all the designers and graphic designers to participate […]
Celebrating the best in design and architecture across 11 main design disciplines spanning 28 categories, Australia’s Good Design Awards is the nation’s highest design honour, recognising and rewarding design excellence since 1958. Now in its 62nd year, the Good Design Awards has a long and proud legacy of promoting the best in design to a […]
UIA2020Rio, the 27th World Congress of Architects, is taking place in Rio de Janeiro the 19-23 July of this year. Keynote speakers include Eduardo Souto de Moura, Solano Benitez, Elizabeth de Portzamparc, Tatiana Bilbao and Francis Kéré. Website
In Singapore, the month of August means National Day, and we're taking the opportunity to appreciate all things local and the wonderful creative talent we have! This month's NDC events theme is Singapore: Our Home, and will run from August to September. Discover how design plays a part in shaping Singapore into a loveable city, […]
This year’s YouFab Global Awards focuses on how we can redesign and reframe humanity, physicality, and “real experience” given the context of a world where being contactless has become the default. It could be a proposal for a new technology or system, or a new behavioral pattern. The focus could be anything: a house, school, […]
UN Women in Asia and the Pacific and WDO have launched a World Design Challenge to create a global mobilization of design professionals in an effort to brainstorm, research and ideate innovative solutions to the egregious reality of violence against women and girls (VAWG). Violence against women is learned, and can therefore be unlearned or […]
2020 Quanzhou China to open up new innovative platform, attract worldwide design force! Stimulating the creativity of design talents, strengthening the enterprises' competitiveness. Push transition of Quanzhou's industry from “Intensive Manufacturing” to “Design Driven Intelligent Manufacturing”. Upgrade Quanzhou's industry through innovations and build high quality brand symbol of “Quanzhou's Intelligent Manufacturing”. Quanzhou taking this opportunity […]
Building on the success of our first international competition, the Dupont Underground is launching a second competition: Re-Think Dupont Circle. One of the key public spaces in Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s famous urban plan for the nations capital, Dupont Circle was not built out until the late 19th century and has not seen a significant redesign […]
Join our Community of international business leaders on how Design Thinking matters more than ever in the New Normal. Let's Reset, Rethink and Reinvent together over 40 forward-thinking leaders and innovators to share insights and inspirations on how best to prepare for the new normal. Be part of the KODW community and join the […]
La Biennale di Venezia, to mark the 125th anniversary of its foundation, is presenting Le muse inquiete (The Disquieted Muses). When La Biennale di Venezia Meets History, an exhibition by Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts (ASAC), held in the Central Pavilion of the Giardini della Biennale from Saturday, August 29 to Tuesday, December 8, 2020. […]
The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge calls for design concepts addressing any issue(s) outlined by the Sustainable Development Goals. We know that the SDGs are vast and expand across many subject areas, but this diversity means there are also just as many solutions out there waiting to be discovered. Successful teams will define a concrete, well […]
ONE HOME, ONE PLANET (OHOP) is an action-orientated event, that’s going virtual this year. Over two days, it brings together 300 purpose-driven, ideas-led doers, thinkers and influencers from across different fields. Together, we break down barriers to solving key social and environmental challenges facing the world – challenges that now, more than ever, need urgent […]
The 2020 Good Design Awards will be announced over five days throughout the 2020 Good Design Week from 7 to 11 September and we’re inviting you to be a part of the celebrations. The Good Design Week will be filled with good news and inspiring content to recognise, reward and celebrate the innovative minds behind this year’s Good Design […]
As we continue to place unsustainable demand on our finite resources, the imperative for businesses to respond and adapt becomes increasingly critical. Over the last few decades, products have been designed for obsolescence and without much regard for their lifecycle’s impact on the environment. As a consumerist society, it will take a drastic shift to […]
Design is a discipline that can be applied to every type of transport and service to meet present and future environmental and humanitarian challenges. Energy transition, climate change, air quality, new ways of living and consuming, forms of solidarity… Through design, we can give citizens the freedom to get around while ensuring the particular needs of […]
The “Housing” Maison POC will present the region’s strong innovation credentials in the area of housing. This Maison POC will illustrate the range of housing experiments in all their diversity, from private and social housing and student housing to residences for dependent persons and participative and connected housing. In partnership with the WAAO — Lille’s Architecture and […]
Maison POC is as much an animated tour as it is a lively forum for exchange and debate. Visitors conduct an investigation to discover evidence of a collaborative future. In line with the hundred POC from the territory, it will welcome DESIS labs of design schools and universities from all around the world, the design […]
