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  • THE WELLBEING CITIES FORUM

    Montreal , Canada

    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 […]

  • LA DESIGN FESTIVAL

    Los Angeles , United States

    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 […]

  • SAN FRANCISCO DESIGN WEEK

    San Francisco (USA) San Francisco, United States

    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 […]

  • LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE SUMMIT

    London , United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • THE MONOCLE QUALITY OF LIFE

    Madrid , Spain

    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 […]

  • 4TH ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL/BELGIUM

    Genk (Belgium) Genk, Belgium

    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 […]

  • HUMAN CITY DESIGN AWARD 2019

    Seoul , Korea, Republic of

    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

    Gydnia (Poland) Gydnia, Poland

    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 […]

  • YOUNG BIRD PLAN MASCOT INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

    Global event

    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, […]

  • DW! SÃO PAULO DESIGN WEEK

    Sao Paulo (Brazil) Sao Paulo, Brazil

    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 […]

  • INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE

    Chicago , United States

    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 […]

  • GLOBAL GOALS JAM 2019

    Global event

    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

    Paris , France

    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

    Helsinki (Finland) Helsinki, Finland

    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 […]