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The Wellbeing Cities Forum is part of the international Wellbeing City Award. The Forum and Ceremony is expected to attract more than 300 senior leaders from around the world. Delegates will explore best practices in city-led action to improve citizen wellbeing through workshops, panels, and debates.The Wellbeing Cities Forum will be held in partnership with […]
The LA Design Festival honors the city’s rich design culture and celebrates its status as a global design capital. Our definition of design is purposely broad to ensure that our festival is reflective of LA’s diversity and talent. The Festival is the only citywide festival of its kind, featuring events throughout LA. From architecture and […]
SFDW is an essential week-long city-wide festival that showcases the unique intersection of ideas, design, business & entrepreneurism that makes the Bay Area the birthplace of the future. Through studio tours and events, SFDW celebrates this spirit of newness by providing unique access to exhibitions and conversations with the designers who are shaping the future […]
In collaboration with WDO Educational Member Faculty of Design – Associated Member of University of Primorska, the House of Design Management and Innovation (HDMI) and the Municipality of Ljubljana, WDO will hold its seventh World Design Talks in Ljubljana (Slovenia) on 21 June 2019. Under the banner of SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities and in the […]
The Delux DIAlogue on tour will take five design professionals to Singapore and Portugal in October, where they will gain unique access to a variety of design projects, galleries, site tours and some of the world’s best designers and innovators. Entries are now open exclusively to DIA Members, offering Australian designers practicing interior design an […]
The Summit focuses on Resonance, the theme for London Design Biennale 2020, the third edition of the critically acclaimed exhibition. It will address the impact of design: its power to cross borders, bridge cultures, and alter behaviours and societies. It will look at how this can improve a variety of major global issues, including climate […]
Join Tyler Brûlé and Monocle editors in Madrid for the fifth instalment of the Monocle Quality of Life Conference. The event will bring together the finest speakers, thinkers and doers for three days of lively debate, discussion and repartee. Covering better living, smoother transport, smarter architecture and clever solutions for creating vibrant neighbourhoods, the fifth […]
Projects by over 90 participants of the 4th Instanbul Design Biennial can be seen at Luma Arles (France) and C-Mine (Belgium) this year. The 4th Istanbul Biennial exhibition - A School of Schools, explored the multiple dimensions of design as learning in six schools: Unmaking School, Currents School, Scales School, Earth School, Time School, and […]
World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) is an international day of observance celebrated throughout the world in recognition of the establishment of the World Design Organization (WDO) on 29 June. This year, WDO and the team at Global Goals Jam have joined forces to launch the first World Industrial Design Day 2019 Mini-Jam (designathon) under the […]
Seoul City and Seoul Design Foundation will give out the “Human City Design Award“, an award that combines the concept of social design and global outlook of Asia as an organic entity, starting in 2019.The award will be given to the project, which has contributed to ensuring people and people, people and the society, people […]
Gdynia Design Days is the leading Baltic region festival of inspiration and practical and valuable knowledge about design, featuring the latest trends and best practice – rich in curated exhibitions, lectures, workshops, talks and discussions, all aimed at professionals, entrepreneurs and design enthusiasts in search of new ways of working. In July Gdynia becomes the […]
The LearnXdesign is a conference series by DRS Special Interest Group in Design Pedagogy (PedSIG), cultivating symbiotic exchanges between design education and design research. The theme for the DRS Learn X Design 2019 is Insider Knowledge and it will be hosted by the Middle East Technical University (METU) Department of Industrial Design. Website WDO Member: […]
Young Bird Plan, is an international competition platform for global design talents. With three key elements, viz. fabrication, mentor’s guidance and interdisciplinary jury, it is fast becoming a leading voice in global design fields like urban design, architecture design, product design, logo design, among others. This time, Young Bird Plan launches its own competition globally, […]
Each year, iF International Forum Design organizes one of the world's most celebrated and valued design competitions for students and recent graduates: the iF DESIGN Talent Award. The competition's theme is based on four main questions and the smartest answers will be honoured with EUR 20,000! Website WDO Member: iF International Forum Design
For a fourth year, Fresh Taiwan is exhibiting at the NY NOW summer expo, showcasing products by ten emerging Taiwanese designers, including 22STUDIO, CELIA&PERAH, eguchi toys, Kamaro'an, Kanari, Mordeco, PAPER SHOOT, Studio Smoll, Yenchenyawan design studio, and ystudio. Fresh Taiwan launched back in 2012, organized by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture and executed by Taiwan Design […]
São Paulo Design Week is an urban festival that aims to promote design culture and its connections with architecture, art, decoration, urbanism, social inclusion, business and technological innovation. The DW! includes lectures in educational institutions, guided tours in galleries and workshops, exhibitions, installations, artistic and urban interventions, thematic circuits, competitions, parties and product launches in […]
The International Design Conference is a celebration of the diversity, overlap and undeniable power of design. As the role of design is constantly shifting, it becomes critical that we open the conversation to as many creative perspectives as possible in the interest of developing a shared dialog that advances our ability to collaborate and magnifies […]
The Global Goals Jam is a two day event consisting of short design sprints. Creative teams of designers, developers and Jammers from the local community work together using a tailored toolkit. Together, they will create interventions aimed at short term targets in support of the long term United Nations Development goals. Teams work in-between different […]
PARIS DESIGN WEEK is fast becoming the definitive cultural counterpoint that is raising the bar for design weeks across the world. Overlapping the M&O PARIS September show and uniting the French and an increasingly international design community, the PDW city becomes immersed in promenades, cocktails, exhibitions… culminating into the celebration of emerging talents at LE […]
Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordic countries. Held annually in September, the multidisciplinary festival presents design from a number of fields as well as fashion, architecture and urban culture.Helsinki Design Week presents the new faces and phenomena of design, promotes design internationally in collaboration with various partners and offers city […]
