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  • DESIGN CODES: A Co-Design Working Session

    Online

    Design Codes will only be meaningful if they reflect lived practice and diverse global contexts. WDO Members are invited to join an interactive working session to help shape the next iteration of the Design Codes. Building on the presentation shared at the General Assembly in September 2025, this session will briefly recap the framework and […]

  • B Corp Month: The Value of Design – Beyond Compliance to Inspiration

    Online

    Design is often misunderstood as aesthetics or branding. Yet in reality, design is one of the most powerful levers businesses have to translate purpose into practice. As part of B Corp Month 2026, this webinar explores how design, when treated as an operating model rather than an add‑on, moves organisations beyond compliance and into inspiration. Framed around […]

  • PARK Academy Design Leadership Excellence programme

    Online

    At PARK, we are proud to deliver the Design Leadership Excellence Programme in partnership with DBA, designed to enhance your effectiveness and influence as a design manager. This programme integrates three essential modules, providing a comprehensive approach to refining your leadership skills: Design Leadership, Design Strategy and Design Value. The programme is based on principles […]

  • UX Design Awards – Call for Entries Autumn 2026

    Online

    Bring your work to the global stage! Companies, agencies, professionals, and emerging designers from around the world are invited to submit their best work across three competition categories: Product and Concept for the professional sector, and New Talent for up‑and‑coming designers. Participating offers the opportunity for projects to be endorsed by leading industry experts while […]

  • AI + Future of Practice

    Online

    When AI enters the studio, what changes first — the tools, or the profession? In the third session of AI Design Frontiers – Season 2, we host George Guida, Founder & CEO of xFigura.ai, for a timely discussion on how AI is reshaping architectural practice. Moving beyond speed and automation, the session explores shifting workflows, […]

  • Okbaby Foldable Baby Bathtub

    Online

    Okbaby, in collaboration with Desall, is looking for innovative ideas for a foldable baby bathtub that is safe, functional, and easy to carry, designed for infants aged 0 - 12 months. The product must be manufactured without the use of injection-molding technologies. Deadline: 10 March 2026. Learn more: https://bit.ly/Okbaby-Foldable-Baby-Bathtub

  • Online Social Design Masterclass – When Technology Designs Us / How artefacts Shape the Social Start date

    Online

    This online course explores how technologies actively mediate our social, cultural, and political lives, and how this mediation reshapes the practice and purpose of social design. Moving beyond a narrow and instrumental understanding of technology, participants will develop a critical and nuanced grasp of artefacts and sociotechnical systems as dynamic agents in society. Learn more: […]

  • PARK Academy Advancing Design Leadership

    Online

    At PARK, we are proud to deliver the Advancing Design Leadership Programme in partnership with DBA, designed to enhance your effectiveness and influence as a design manager. The programme integrates 3 essential modules, providing a comprehensive approach to refining your leadership skills: Design Storytelling, Design in CX & Design for Humanity. The programme is based […]

  • 6th Arab Architecture Week – online

    Online

    The 6th Arab Architecture Week (October 12–16, 2025) explores the theme “Reimagining Cities.” Organized by ArchiNet, it gathers architects, designers, and researchers to discuss the future of Arab cities through lectures and dialogues on heritage, sustainability, and innovation—enriching Arabic architectural content and fostering regional collaboration. Learn more: https://www.archinet.me/ WDO Member: ArchiNet

  • DOpla Tableware Innovation

    Online

    New Product Design contest: DOpla and Desall are looking for innovative new products in the sustainable tableware sector, with the goal of redefining the brand’s identity and recognizability through a distinctive value proposition. You are invited to design new solutions that represent an authentic transformation, showing that DOpla is present on store shelves not passively, […]

  • AI Design Frontiers

    Online

    AI Design Frontiers is a free global online talk series curated by ArchiNet × Love That Design, running August–December 2025. Across architecture, interior, urban, landscape, furniture and lighting, leading practitioners share real projects and honest lessons on integrating—or questioning—artificial intelligence in design. Each 35-minute presentation is followed by live Q&A and open discussion. Registration is […]