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CLUE is a competition for students and professionals, that encourages the next generation in the industry to develop ground breaking lighting concepts.The competition, titled "Light & Disruption: Exploring the role of light in emergencies", will explore how light can help to prevent challenging situations and crisis or manage emergencies when they occur. In testing circumstances, […]
GIDA is an international design prize driven by globalization, specialization and market orientation. The prize is created to discover future design, inspire future life and empower future cities by exploring the Chinese concept of “harmony” and exchanging the global experience of good designs featuring intelligence and sustainable development. Website WDO Member: XIDI
Ahmedabad Design Week, is an ode to Ahmedabad the first UNESCO Heritage city of India & many ways cradle of Design education in India. ADW has been conceived as a melting pot of ideas & insights - attracting eminent global design thought leaders, change makers, corporates, academia, educators, practitioners, researchers, designers. Website WDO Member: UID
Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined is the first exhibition to recognize designers using extreme and inventive upcycling to address the current state of our depleted and polluted environment. Many of the designers are recent graduates or faculty of design academies and universities, noting a shift in the world of design and design education, from function at the […]
Madrid Design Festival is an international event that wants to convert Madrid into the capital of design and elevate the city to a privileged position on the international arena. The festival is held in February and will encompass all design disciplines, from architecture to graphic design, communications to interior design, all of them hybridising into a […]
The German Design Awards directly contributes to the overall commercial success. Prizes will only be awarded to projects that truly represent pioneering contributions to the German and international design landscape. The highly esteemed, international jury guarantees this. The German Design Awards identifies and presents unique design trends: a competition that advances the design-oriented scene. Website […]
With more than a thousand cars, trucks, concept vehicles and classic cars, there is plenty to see, do and drive in the Canadian International Autoshow. This event has been held in Toronto since 1974 and draws an average of 300,000 visitors every year. The show includes exhibitions of private collections, debuts, raffles, and much more! Website
The Service Design Award, founded by the Service Design Network in 2015, is the most prestigious award honoring service design excellence from around the world. This year we are celebrating our fifth anniversary and we are proud of our previous winners and finalists who helped us to stay true in our vision to make service […]
Design Indaba has seen over 600 illustrious speakers take to the stage to deliver soul-stirring and mind-awakening talks earning the acclaim as the best conference in the world whilst also actively pursuing change and action - seeding over 200 impact driven projects into the public square. Design Indaba 2020 will be a 3 day multi-sensory, […]
Every year Nairobi Design Week focuses on a new theme, which starts a number of short and long term projects, and becomes a part of their values. We’re all touched by design on a daily basis without realizing it, and every person solves problems creatively in their own lives. The theme for 2020 is “Design […]
NewCities and the City of Victoria, with the support of a diverse range of content partners including Women in Cities International (WICI), are convening a two-day event in Victoria in order to raise awareness of the SDGs, share leading international examples relevant to Canadian contexts, integrate local and Indigenous knowledge into approaches towards the SDGs, […]
Co-hosted organized by the Econcult of the University of Valencia and the Valencia Capital Association of Disseny, with the support of Centro Cultural La Nau of University of Valencia, La Ciutat de les Artes i les Ciencies, and the municipal government from Valencia, This forum aims to explore a two-way street approach for design policy, […]
For the seventh time green products and concepts can be submitted to the international Green Product Award. This year, manufacturers, design studios & agencies are invited to submit their solutions withinour new theme"Future Village". The award submissions fill the sustainablehouse of the future, where eco-friendlyliving and working is made tangible -in the categories architecture, bathroom, […]
DesignMarch is Iceland's annual design festival. From fashion to furniture, architecture to the environment, food to product design, the festival showcases the best of the local design scene alongside exciting international names. The festival opens with DesignTalks, a day of lectures by internationally acclaimed designers and leading local design thinkers. Website
2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), one of the longest running and most prestigious design awards programs in existence. Each year, thousands of entries are submitted by design teams across the globe, making IDEA one of the largest and most widely anticipated annual awards programs in the world. Website […]
Southern Design Summit is an annual one-day conference organized by the IDSA Atlanta Chapter. At this event, we explore different candid case studies, tools of the trade, and more. This conference explores what makes design in the south unique. Website WDO Member: IDSA
The network of Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes announces the open call for Together Alone – an international art project to document the state of emergency. Through the open call the Institutes are looking for projects that address the themes of state of emergency, radical change, resilience, artistic practice in the future, and alone together. […]
The 2020 Youth Innovation Challenge hosted by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation invites North American youth aged 18 to 30 to propose innovative solutions to address environmental challenges and opportunities for communities in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Website
The 2020 Human City design Award is a competition of Design for sustainable cities, towards a harmonious relationship between human beings and the environment. Website
The DFA Design for Asia Awards is the flagship programme of the Hong Kong Design Centre, celebrating design excellence and acknowledging outstanding designs with Asian perspectives. Since its launch in 2003, the DFA Design for Asia Awards has been a stage upon which design talents and corporations can showcase their design projects internationally. Website WDO […]
