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  • 3rd Ibero-American Forum on Research and Design

    Madrid , Spain

    The 3rd Ibero-American Forum on Research and Design (Madrid, 11–14 Nov 2025) gathers academics, professionals, and startups to map the evolving design landscape with a 360° view. Its three tracks address research in universities, contributions from professionals and companies, and innovation from institutions and startups, fostering dialogue, diversity, sustainability, and transformative opportunities in Ibero-American design. […]

  • Madrid Design Festival 2025

    Madrid , Spain

    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 […]

  • Ibero-American Research / Design Forum

    Madrid , Spain

    The Ibero-American Research and Design Forum is back! Until 16 August, we are accepting abstract submissions to be included as part of the forum’s second edition taking place from 5-8 November 2024 in Madrid.

  • Madrid Design Festival

    Madrid , Spain

    From 8 February to 17 March, Madrid will host the seventh edition of the international Madrid Design Festival, turning the city into the capital of design and positioning it in a privileged place on the international scene. The 2024 event features the crafts of Castile La Mancha as an invited project, 53 exhibitions and installations; […]

  • CALL FOR POSTERS: MADRID GRAFIKA 2020

    Madrid , Spain

    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 […]

  • MADRID DESIGN FESTIVAL 2020

    Madrid , Spain

    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 […]

  • ENCUENTRO BID

    Madrid , Spain

    The Encuentro BID is a platform for reflection and debate of the Ibero-American community of Design Teaching Centers, organized by DIMAD within the framework of the Ibero-American Design Biennial (BID). In the centenary of the Bauhaus, the most influential art and design school of the 20th century, BID invites you to reflect on the relevance […]

  • 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 […]