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SUMMARY:Amman Design Week 2026: Accumulations Marks the Comeback
DESCRIPTION:After almost seven years of silence\, Amman Design Week 2026 is back with the fourth edition. From 2 to 17 October\, the Jordanian capital opens up its studios\, galleries and old stone houses to designers\, students and the public once again. The fourth edition picks up where the 2019 one left off\, and its theme\, Accumulations\, speaks directly to everything that has been building up in the meantime.\n \nAmman Design Week\, October 2-17\, 2026\nSize: over 220 designers\, more than 60 spaces\nLocations: Various venues across five districts: Ras El Ain\, Jabal Al Lweibdeh\, Jabal Amma\, Iraq Al Amir\, Aqaba\nTickets: Free admission\, registration required for some specific events\nOpening hours: Opening hours vary by specific venue\, exhibition\, and event\, with most main installations and open houses operating daily between 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM \nMore info at Amman Design Week 2026  website \nDiscover Dubai Design Week 2025 \nThe Hangar Exhibition\, 2019. Photo: Edmund Sumner\, courtesy Amman Design Week \nA Look Back at Amman Design Week\nHer Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah founded Amman Design Week in 2016. Three editions followed\, in 2016\, 2017 and 2019\, the last one running from 4 to 12 October 2019. Together they drew 89\,000 visitors\, more than 160 exhibitors and 52 participating spaces\, figures that turned the event into a reference point for design in the region. \nThose editions brought local\, regional and international designers to Amman and kept everything free and open to all: large curated exhibitions\, student and community programs\, workshops\, talks and cultural events across the city. \nWhat sets Amman apart is how the team sees itself. It describes the project less as an event and more as a curatorial platform\, with learning programs\, commissions and mentorship running all year round. The design week is the moment when all this work goes public\, and from now on it will take place every two years. \nThe choice of the “Design Week” name was deliberate as well. It links Amman to the global network of design weeks\, while the focus stays on building a creative movement with a clear social value. \nThe Hangar Exhibition\, 2016 \nAccumulations: The Theme of Amman Design Week 2026\nDesign themes often stay vague. Accumulations does not. The organizers see accumulation not as a pile of things\, but as the slow coming together of experience\, material and history\, a process that people shape together rather than alone. \nIn Jordan\, they argue\, the line between tradition and innovation is thin. Accumulating therefore means negotiating: between past and future\, between scarcity and possibility\, between what people inherit and what they make. \nThe theme also ties back to the long pause. In the organizers’ words\, the six years since the last edition were years in which creative energy\, social change and untapped resources kept stacking up. From here\, Accumulations questions the usual idea of wealth and points instead to human ingenuity\, cooperation\, heritage\, the vision of a new generation and the land itself\, with its layered ecologies where human\, animal and plant life meet. \nFor those working in architecture and interiors\, this is a theme about process and materials rather than polished finished objects.\n \nThe Crafts District\, Amman Design Week 2019 \nFifty Venues Across Amman and Jordan\nAmman Design Week takes place in over 50 venues spread across Ras El Ain\, Jabal Al Lweibdeh\, Jabal Amman\, Iraq al Amir and Aqaba\, with most events in the capital and fringe activities in other Jordanian cities. \nAmong the new entries\, Darat Abu Adnan stands out. It joins the design week for the first time this year and opens one of the few heritage homes still standing in Jabal Al Lweibdeh. Contemporary design set inside historic architecture is one of the strongest draws of this edition. \nOver the years\, the program has grown around a few main pillars: the Hangar Exhibition\, the Crafts District\, the Student Exhibition\, children’s programs\, urban interventions\, workshops and talks\, and a strand on culture and food.\n \nThe Student Exhibition\, 2019. Photo Edward Summer\, courtesy Amman Design Week \nWorkshops Ahead of Amman Design Week 2026\nMuch of the hands-on work happens in the run-up to the event. Francisco Regalado of LAAA (Laboratorio de Arte\, Arquitectura y Arqueología) is leading a two-week intensive workshop on the studio’s approach to rebuilding heritage\, which brings together close research\, digital technology and experimental fabrication. In a city with so many historical layers\, the fit with the theme is clear. \nTracing Amman takes a different path: an analogue photowalk and image-making workshop led by Leen Alfatafta and Lina Khalid of Darkroom Amman\, together with Hannin Alnimri of makāna. Participants have also met at CPF Makerspace to try out the digital fabrication tools available for their projects. \nA Strong Program for Young Designers\nThe student mentorship program is one of the most interesting parts of this edition. It received 203 applications from more than 88 universities\, institutions and high schools across Jordan. The team selected 37 projects by 47 students\, who will now design\, develop and produce a new original piece that may go on show at Amman Design Week 2026. \nFor anyone travelling to the Middle East this autumn\, or simply following the international design calendar\, Amman is well worth keeping in mind. After years of quiet accumulation\, the city has a lot to show. \nWhy visit\n\nAmman Design Week offers something rare on the international calendar: contemporary design shown inside heritage homes and historic neighbourhoods\, free and open to all. It is also a chance to discover new voices from Jordan and the Middle East\, well before they reach the major European design fairs.  \n\nAmman Design Week\, October 2-17\, 2026\nSize: over 220 designers\, more than 60 spaces\nLocations: Various venues across five districts: Ras El Ain\, Jabal Al Lweibdeh\, Jabal Amma\, Iraq Al Amir\, Aqaba\nTickets: Free admission\, registration required for some specific events\nOpening hours: Opening hours vary by specific venue\, exhibition\, and event\, with most main installations and open houses operating daily between 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM \nMore info on Amman Design Week 2026  website \nSome images from the past editions \n\n\n\n	\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n\n\n  \n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Design Week Mexico 2026: the program of Mexico City's design week
DESCRIPTION:Design Week Mexico 2026  takes  place in Mexico City from 5 to 11 October\, although most of its exhibitions stay open well into November\, and one runs until January 2027. Founded in 2009 by Emilio Cabrero\, Andrea Cesarman\, Marco Coello and Jaime Hernández\, it’s now in its 18th year. Over the years\, DWM has built a wide program of exhibitions\, talks\, installations and documentaries that brings professionals\, students and the general public together. \nDesign House\, Design Week Mexico 2025 \nSince 2013\, each edition also welcomed a guest country\, which brings its own design scene into the program. Brazil opened the series in 2013\, followed by the United Kingdom in 2014 and Italy in 2015. DWM26 brings together design\, architecture\, craft and art-object\, with Chile as guest country and a shared curatorial line\, “Perspectives from the Global South“. Almost all venues sit within the Miguel Hidalgo borough\, between Polanco\, Chapultepec and Lomas\, so the week can be covered on foot and by short rides.\n \nChile\, guest country of Design Week Mexico 2026\nChile’s presence builds on an open call for Chilean designers living in Chile or elsewhere in Latin America. Five of them were picked to work side by side with Mexican artisans: Camilo Huinca (Onlyjoke)\, ceramist Catalina Zarhi\, Paula Corrales\, Raúl Hernández Tralma of Trufquen\, known for combining Pomaire clay with mouth-blown glass\, and Rodrigo Bravo Ferretti of Bravo Estudio in Santiago. The project is backed by Chile’s Ministry of Cultures\, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chilean Embassy in Mexico. \nDiscover more on São Paulo Design Week 2026 \nVisión y Tradición at the Museo Nacional de Antropología\nThe results of these residencies go on show in the half-moon gallery of the Museo Nacional de Antropología\, from 8 October to 1 November\, with free entry. Each Chilean designer teamed up with a workshop in a different state: Rodrigo Bravo with a stone workshop in Yucatán that carves local limestones\, Raúl Hernández Tralma with a potter from Amatenango del Valle in Chiapas\, Camilo Huinca with a family studio in Uruapan working with maque inlay lacquer\, Paula Corrales with a horsehair workshop in Jalisco\, and Catalina Zarhi with a young Mata Ortiz potter from Chihuahua. \nA Mexican section pairs local designers with artisans too\, among them Aura Carpio with a family of coppersmiths from Santa Clara del Cobre and Gustavo Pacheco\, already seen at SaloneSatellite in Milan\, with a collective of Rarámuri textile makers. \nDesign Week Mexico 2026 runs 5-11 October in Mexico City with Chile as guest country. Full guide to the DWM26 program\, venues\, dates and tickets. \nVision & Tradition\, Design Week Mexico 2025 \nInmersiones Creativas México-Francia at Casa Ortega\nCasa Ortega hosts a look back at three years of residencies between French designers and Mexican craftspeople\, carried out with the French Embassy\, IFAL\, Institut Français and Mobilier National in the year France and Mexico mark two centuries of diplomatic relations. More than thirty French creatives have travelled across the country since 2023. The 2026 pairings include Matali Crasset with the brand and Jacob\, working on marble and blown glass\, Wendy Andreu with a Guadalajara stone company\, Théophile Blandet with Toro Manifesto on a kinetic lamp inspired by the Voladores de Papantla ritual\, and Fanny Serouart with Taller Maya on henequen fibre and leather. The show opens on 5 October and runs until 25 October\, free until 11 October.\n \nPabellon Audi\, Design Week Mexico 2025 \nDesign House 2026\nDesign House\, the flagship project of Design Week Mexico\, reaches its 17th edition inside a 1970s house by architect Fernando Jackson\, on Paseo de las Palmas in Lomas de Chapultepec. Leading Mexican architecture and interior studios fit out each room\, among them Ezequiel Farca\, C Cúbica Arquitectos\, Uribe Krayer and Toro Manifesto. Italian brands also show up through two pairings\, Arditti with Molteni&C and Colectivo ERRA with La Marzocco. Furniture\, lighting and finishes come from the Dealers de Diseño\, which share the same venue and dates. Open daily from 9 October to 1 November\, tickets on Eventbrite.\n \nDesign House\, Design Week Mexico 2025 \nInédito at Espacio CDMX\nInédito turns twelve and remains the main platform for utilitarian design and art-object in Mexico. At Espacio CDMX\, in Chapultepec forest\, it gathers more than seventy professional studios\, design schools and emerging makers\, all showing pieces never seen before. Biomaterials\, reuse of resources\, new manufacturing methods and fair dealings with traditional crafts are the recurring topics. Free entry from 10 October to 10 January.\n \nInedito\, Design Week Mexico 2025 \nPRINT\, graphic design and illustration\nThe third edition of PRINT takes over the White Box of G.56 Hub Creativo in San Miguel Chapultepec. It picks up the same Global South theme through graphic design\, illustration\, typography and printed media selected by an international jury\, which hands out a 20\,000-peso PRINT Prize. Free\, from 8 to 31 October.\n \nPRINT\, Design Week Mexico 2025 \nTours de Diseño\, the parallel agenda\nFrom 1 October to 1 November\, the Tours de Diseño link up showrooms\, workshops and design shops across Mexico City\, covering both contemporary and craft-based Mexican design. The circuit gives dozens of local makers a chance to open their doors during the busiest month of the year for design in the city. The full calendar of events and openings is published on the Design Week Mexico website\, alongside the DWM26 map. \nWhy visit\nDesign Week Mexico offers a rare chance to see contemporary design and traditional craft side by side\, in residencies that pair designers with artisans from all over the country. The venues are part of the experience too\, from the Museo Nacional de Antropología to a 1970s house in Lomas de Chapultepec\, and most exhibitions are free. With Chile as guest country and a strong focus on Latin America\, DWM26 is a good way to catch up with the design scenes of the Global South. Since many shows stay open well into November\, there is plenty of time to take everything in. \nDesign Week Mexico 2026: key dates\n\n\n\n\nEvent \n\n\nVenue \n\n\nDates \n\n\nEntry fee \n\n\n\n\nInmersiones Creativas \n\n\nCasa Ortega \n\n\n6-25 October (opening 5 October) \n\n\nFree until 11 October\, then 50 MXN \n\n\n\n\nVisión y Tradición \n\n\nMuseo Nacional de Antropología \n\n\n8 October-1 November (opening 7 Oct) \n\n\nFree \n\n\n\n\nPRINT \n\n\nG.56 Hub Creativo \n\n\n8-31 October (opening 7 October) \n\n\nFree \n\n\n\n\nDesign House +\nDealers de Diseño \n\n\nPaseo de las Palmas 1305 \n\n\n9 October-1 November \n\n\n250-300 MXN \n\n\n\n\nInédito \n\n\nEspacio CDMX \n\n\n10 October 2026-10 January 2027 (opening 9 October) \n\n\nFree \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nTours de Diseño \n\n\nAcross the city \n\n\n1 October-1 November \n\n\nFree \n\n\n\n\nSize: more than 200 events\, over 100 activities; 200\,000+ visitors\nMany events are free\, other require an entry fee\nOpening hours: October 5 – 11\, 2026\, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM\nDiseño Contenido (Lincoln Park): October 10 and 11\, from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM\nMain Exhibitions (Design House\, Vision & Tradition\, Inédito\, etc.):\nRun on individual schedules through October and November 2026\nVisit Designmexico.com website for info  \n \n\n  \n\n  \n 
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LOCATION:Mexico City\, Mexico City\, 01000\, Mexico
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SUMMARY:DesignBlok 2026: Prague Design Festival
DESCRIPTION:DesignBlok 2026\, the 28th edition of the Prague design festival\, runs from 7 to 11 October 2026 across some of the city’s most striking venues. This year’s theme is Light\, read as a symbol of knowledge\, truth\, hope and life. More than 300 designers\, studios\, brands and guests from the Czech Republic and abroad take part\, while the programme moves between the National Gallery Prague’s Trade Fair Palace\, Prague Castle\, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Industrial Palace\, which reopens to the public with the festival after four years of work. \nDesignBlok 2026\, Prague\, 7-11\, October\, 2026\nProfessionals’ Day: 6 October\, with the first day of DesignBlok Talks (the conference continues on 7 October)\nSize: six main venues: Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery Prague; Riding Hall and Chapel of the Holy Cross at Prague Castle; Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague; UMPRUM Technology Centre in Mikulandská; Central Hall of the Industrial Palace at Výstaviště Praha\nAround 50\,000 visitors \nPaid admission\, one ticket for all venues\nMore than 50 showrooms\, galleries\, shops and other venues\nMore info on the website designblok.cz \nDesignblok 2025\, High Craft. Photo Martin Faltejsek\, courtesy DesignBlok \nLight shows up in many forms: as a practical tool\, a technology\, a building block of architecture and design\, and an idea. Through exhibitions\, installations\, talks and presentations\, DesignBlok looks at how light shapes the way people see\, feel and live\, and at what design can do for society. \nDesignblok 2025\, Vystaviste. Photo Martin Faltejsek\, courtesy DesignBlok \nMarcel Wanders\, Guest of Honour at DesignBlok 2026\nDutch designer Marcel Wanders is this year’s main guest. On Thursday 8 October he will pick up the DesignBlok Award for Outstanding Contribution to Global Design in the historic Central Hall of the Industrial Palace at Výstaviště Praha. \nSince the 1990s\, Wanders has blurred the lines between craft and industry\, decoration and structure\, tradition and technology\, and brought emotion and imagination back to the centre of design. His Knotted Chair of 1996 became the symbol of this approach. The Skygarden light for Flos\, his work for Moooi\, the brand he co-founded 25 years ago\, and the layered interiors of the Mondrian Doha hotel show how widely his practice reaches across products\, lighting and interiors. \nLee Broom’s BEACON Lights Up Jan Palach Square\nBritish designer Lee Broom brings BEACON to Prague\, a monumental light installation made with Czech lighting brand Brokis. After its launch in London and a stop at Milan Design Week\, the piece reaches Czech audiences for the first time\, lighting up Jan Palach Square in front of the Rudolfinum. \nDesignBlok Talks: Two Days on the Future of Design\, Architecture and Living\nThe second edition of DesignBlok Talks grows to two days\, on 6 and 7 October\, and moves into the Industrial Palace. More than 40 architects\, designers and experts will take the stage across three strands: Future of Design\, Future of Architecture and Future of Living. The programme is put together with the British platform Dezeen. \nThe international line-up includes Claudio Silvestrin\, Sebastian Herkner\, Laurids Gallée\, Daniel Rybakken\, Christophe Delcourt\, Alberto Perazza\, Hong Kong designer Stanley Wong and Pascale Mussard Siegrist. The Czech scene is represented by studio Dechem\, Jakub Berdych Karpelis\, Maxim Velčovský\, Kateřina Handlová\, Jan Plecháč\, Lucie Koldová\, Václav Mlynář and Eva Eisler. \nDesignblok 2023\, UPM\, Designblok Talent Cards. Photo Adela Havelkova\, courtesy DesignBlok \nThe Trade Fair Palace\, Heart of the Festival\nAfter three years\, DesignBlok goes back to the Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery Prague\, which once again becomes the core of the festival. Visitors will find more than 250 exhibitions by designers\, brands\, schools and young talents\, along with cafés\, rest areas and large curated projects. \nIn the Small Hall\, supported by KKCG Real Estate Group\, Maxim Velčovský sets up Veranda\, an interactive installation about light\, movement and getting together. On the fifth floor\, DesignBlok Selects picks out 28 objects and new launches from Czech and international design\, among them a limited-edition gold Panton Chair by Vitra and the Axis collection by Laurids Gallée for Moser. \nThe theme also comes through in the mix of exhibitors\, with leading Czech glass and lighting companies side by side with international lighting\, furniture and interior brands. Česká spořitelna and Visa team up with designer Daniel Pošta on an interactive light installation\, Škoda Auto shows two fully electric models\, the Epiq and the Peaq\, and ČEZ uses virtual reality to take visitors inside Czech power plants. The Karel Komárek Family Foundation presents a play installation for preschool children\, designed by students of Tomas Bata University in Zlín. \nDesignBlok 2022\, photo Filip Slapal\, from DesignBlok website \nThe Industrial Palace Reopens with DesignBlok\nDesignBlok is the first major event to open the historic Central Hall of the Industrial Palace after its four-year restoration. The hall will host DesignBlok Talks\, a live design edition of the popular Czech quiz show AZ-kvíz\, the official reopening together with the DesignBlok Awards 2026\, and Saturday’s fashion shows with the Diploma Selection finalists. Guided tours of the palace are organised with Výstaviště Praha\, and a Škoda Auto children’s zone sets up outside as part of DesignBlok for Kids. \nPrague Castle: Václav Havel’s Office and Eva Eisler’s Circle of Silence\nFor the fourth time\, Prague Castle is one of the main venues. The Riding Hall hosts Design for Václav Havel\, marking 90 years since the birth of the first Czech president after the Velvet Revolution. At its centre is Havel’s original presidential office\, back at the Castle after 24 years on loan from Mr and Mrs Kolek. The show is organised by DesignBlok and Prague Castle and curated by Andrea Běhounková and Jana Zielinski. \nThe Riding Hall also hosts the fourth edition of High Craft\, under the patronage of Vogue CS. More than twenty Czech designers and brands rework traditional crafts through new technologies and a careful approach to the environment. Exhibitors include ARTGLASS\, now under the artistic direction of Jakub Berdych Karpelis\, Christmas ornaments by Rautis\, glass by DECHEM and Hana Hillerová\, and sculptures in glass\, bronze and ceramics by Janja Prokić. \nFor the first time\, the deconsecrated Chapel of the Holy Cross in the Castle’s Second Courtyard opens to festival visitors. Here Eva Eisler presents Circle of Silence/Kruh ticha\, an installation that shifts attention away from human making and towards nature\, time and presence. Light is not the subject but the medium that lets visitors take in the space and its silence\, and slow down. \nDesignBlok 2022\, photo Filip Slapal\, from DesignBlok website \nRetro Lamps at the Museum of Decorative Arts\nThe Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague hosts part of Openstudio and the exhibition Retro Lamps: Forgotten Stories of Czechoslovak Design. The show looks at mass-produced table\, floor and pendant lamps made in Czechoslovakia between the 1950s and the 1980s\, and brings back the names of designers often hidden behind the factories that produced their work. It is developed with the Paris gallery Initio Arts & Design and curated by Eva Slunečková. In the museum garden\, designer Bodo Sperlein stages an intervention of his own. \nOpenstudio and Superstudio\nOpenstudio\, split between the Trade Fair Palace and the museum\, focuses on independent projects and smaller brands: PÁR and Blueberries\, a joint collection by Kahotski Eyewear and Petra Ptáčková\, the jewellery project Love is Bling\, embroidery by BRO.\, SKOBA with Jiří Krejčiřík\, and Tititi\, which also celebrates the 100th birthday of the Czech puppet Hurvínek. FLÖTTOTO\, Kultivar and the City of Znojmo join DesignBlok for the first time. \nSuperstudio\, at the Trade Fair Palace\, gathers the large brand installations. Highlights include Lasvit with Rizzoli New York\, the relaunched glassworks Jílek 1905\, a working What a Hut sauna outside the building\, door handles and hooks by Jiří Pelcl for M&T\, furniture by Master & Master with its first light\, a table lamp by Tomáš Král\, a new armchair by Lucie Koldová for LD Seating\, handwoven Slovak rugs by Felmera\, and STOPKA with Italian brand Gallotti&Radice. \nDesignBlok 2023\, Superstudio. Photo Ondrej Holub\, courtesy DesignBlok \nDesignBlok Across Prague\nMore than 50 locations across the city join the festival map\, from showrooms and pop-up stores to galleries\, museums and art schools. Among them are STOPKA\, DEDON Praha\, Minotti Praha and the new Rückl Flagship Store. In Holešovice\, the Konsepti showroom presents new designs by Christophe Delcourt for Molteni&C alongside Magis\, while the nearby Bulb showroom shows icons by Marcel Wanders and Moooi. Křehký brings its Křehký Collectibles to Almanac X Alcron Prague. \nDesignBlok Awards\, Young Talent and Charity\nThe DesignBlok Awards 2026 are handed out at the DesignBlok Gala on 8 October. The international jury is chaired by Max Fraser\, Editor-in-Chief of Dezeen. The Impact Award\, for a project with a strong environmental or social contribution\, comes with CZK 100\,000 from Allwyn. \nDiploma Selection\, run with EUNIC Cluster Prague\, reaches its 12th edition. Fifteen product design finalists show their work at the Trade Fair Palace\, while fashion finalists walk the runway at the Industrial Palace on Saturday 10 October\, when the winners are announced. School Today brings together 19 schools and studios from Central Europe\, with Budapest’s Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design taking part for the first time\, and expands to the UMPRUM Technology Centre in Mikulandská. The DesignBlok Talent Cards\, backed by Česká spořitelna and Visa\, help young designers take their first professional steps. \nThe festival’s main non-profit partner is the AutTalk Foundation\, which supports families of children on the autism spectrum. MONUMENT Office designs an installation for the foundation\, and DesignBlok donates CZK 100\,000 from ticket sales. Porigami\, with a special edition\, and Sue Ryder also take part. \nDesignBlok 2023\, Openstudio\, Design x Science. Photo Petra Hurai\, courtesy DesignBlok \nA Programme for the Whole Family\nThe DesignBlok Stage in the Grand Hall of the Trade Fair Palace hosts talks and meetings with designers throughout the festival\, while the ATLAS space offers workshops and films. Families can count on activities by Designéři dětem and Meander\, and on a festival decathlon quiz with book prizes from Euromedia. There is also a run with the Design(Blok) Lovers community\, ending at the What a Hut sauna\, and evening parties at Kolektor café curated by Cirque.Menu. \nThis is also the first edition under the festival’s new visual identity by Permanent Office\, with a campaign shot by photographer Viktorie Macánová and a new website built with Trau and Offforms to make the large programme easier to find one’s way around. \nWhy visit\nDesignBlok 2026 opens up Prague’s landmark venues\, from Prague Castle to the newly restored Industrial Palace\, to the best of contemporary design. With Marcel Wanders\, Lee Broom and more than 300 Czech and international names in one week\, it is the design event to follow in Central Europe this autumn. \nDesignBlok 2026\, Prague\, 7-11\, October\, 2026\nProfessionals’ Day: 6 October\, with the first day of DesignBlok Talks (the conference continues on 7 October)\nSize: six main venues: Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery Prague; Riding Hall and Chapel of the Holy Cross at Prague Castle; Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague; UMPRUM Technology Centre in Mikulandská; Central Hall of the Industrial Palace at Výstaviště Praha\nAround 50\,000 visitors\nPaid admission\, one ticket for all venues\nMore than 50 showrooms\, galleries\, shops and other venues\nMore info on the website designblok.cz \nOpening hours: Daily October 7-10\, h. 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM / Sunday 11 October h. 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM\nOpening hours may vary for individual venues\, showrooms and shops across the city\, so it is best to check each one on the festival map before 
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/designblok-2026-prague-design-festival/
LOCATION:Prague\, Prague\, 100 00\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Design Festivals,Design Weeks & Weekends
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SUMMARY:EDIT Napoli 2026: Where Design Shapes
DESCRIPTION:EDIT Napoli comes back to La Santissima from 9 to 11 October 2026\, with a press preview on 8 October. For its eighth edition\, the fair brings together around 80 exhibitors from Italy and abroad\, plus a delegation of 40 international guests from 12 countries\, backed by ICE\, the Italian trade agency for export and internationalization. New formats and a wider spread of projects across La Santissima and Chiaia push the fair further into international territory\, while staying close to its roots: research\, authorship\, and quality design.  \nEDIT Napoli Essentials\nOctober 9-11\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\nLocation: La Santissima\, Vico Trinità delle Monache\, 1\, Naples\nOpening hours: h. 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM\nSize: 80 exhibitors\, over 20\,000 visitors\nVisit website EditNapoli.com for more info \nTickets: €20 full price\, €10 reduced (under 25)\, free for under 14\nTickets are available online at editnapoli.com/visit \nDiscover EDIT Napoli 2025  \nEDIT Napoli 2025 at La Santissima \nWhere Design Shapes: the idea behind the 2026 campaign\nThis year’s campaign\, “Where Design Shapes\,” puts the design process back at the center: the materials\, the gestures\, the skills\, the relationships behind an object\, not just the finished result. At a time when design often gets flattened into an image or a trend\, the fair chooses to look at what actually builds culture and new opportunities. \nThat focus fits EDIT Napoli’s identity well. Born to give room to independent designers\, architects\, and small studios\, the fair keeps picking up on the new generation of designers\, studios\, and publishers testing out fresh languages\, materials\, and independent production models. \nEDIT Napoli 2026 La Santissima \nCamera con Vista: a new way to show design\nOne of the big new features this year is Camera con Vista\, a format that asks designers\, studios\, and companies to treat a room as a space to live in and experiment with. The rooms look out symbolically onto Mount Vesuvius\, each one offering a different take on contemporary living through furniture\, objects\, and materials — with the view over the Gulf of Naples as part of the project itself\, not just a backdrop. \nEDIT Napoli: the exhibitors and special projects at La Santissima \nSeveral special projects take shape at La Santissima this year\, built together with partners who bring their own perspective to the fair. \nLancia joins as Main Sponsor for the first time\, sharing the fair’s focus on design\, material research\, and Italian craft tradition. On the first floor\, Lancia teams up with DWA Design Studio for an installation tied to the launch of the new Lancia Gamma\, turning the car’s defining features into a spatial language of light\, material\, and movement. \nFrench designer and artist Olivier Vadrot welcomes visitors with an installation made for EDIT Napoli — a meeting point built to bring people and their surroundings into contact\, in line with his work across art\, design\, and public space. \nAmong this year’s exhibitors\, last edition’s winners Chiara Lionello and Katryna are back\, alongside many returning names and a new group of Italian and international designers\, widening the fair’s scope as a platform for research and experimentation.\n \nEDIT Napoli 2025 at La Santissima \nEDIT Napoli looks outward\nThe international side of the 2026 edition gets a further boost from ICE\, supporting the event for the first time with an incoming program bringing in 40 professionals — architects\, developers\, and media — from Mexico\, the Dominican Republic\, Costa Rica\, El Salvador\, Nicaragua\, the United States\, South Africa\, Switzerland\, the United Kingdom\, Japan\, South Korea\, and Poland. \nSpecial collaborations add to the picture: the dialogue with España Diseño Mediterráneo and the Instituto Cervantes of Naples continues\, and La Santissima hosts Cultural Currencies: Cape Town Furniture Week x EDIT Napoli for the first time. Curated by designer Francesca Lanzavecchia\, the show brings together five South African studios — African Jacquard\, Ananta Design Studio\, James Mudge Furniture Studio x Mungo\, Water Dixon\, and Wiid Design — putting Cape Town and Naples in conversation as two cities shaped by geology\, the sea\, and design that grows out of the land. \nSome previews from EDIT Napoli 2026 \n  \n\n\n\n	\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n\n\n\n  \nEDIT CULT: design meets the city’s heritage\nAlongside the fair\, EDIT CULT returns — the spread-out program of exhibitions\, installations\, and site-specific projects that puts contemporary design in dialogue with the city’s historic and architectural heritage. Over the years it has taken over cloisters\, castles\, charterhouses\, and museums; in 2026\, the CULT route moves into Chiaia\, heading symbolically down toward the sea — a fitting move as Naples looks ahead to hosting the 38th America’s Cup in 2027. Historic palaces and churches\, normally closed to the public\, become the setting for new installations that put the spotlight on designers’ work and the processes behind it. \nThis year’s CULT program \n“Crochet Coral Reef” by Margaret and Christine Wertheim\, with the Museum Frieder Burda\, supported by Crédit Agricole Italia. Made entirely by crochet\, this installation recreates the structure and color of living coral reefs\, turning a handmade craft into a large collective work. Over 4\,000 people from different countries took part\, making more than 40\,000 crocheted coral shapes — together forming the biggest crocheted coral reef ever made. Two of its six “islands” come to Naples. (Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes) \nEDIT Napoli Crochet Coral Reef. Photo Nikolaj Kazakov Karlsruhe\, courtesy EDIT Napoli \n“Archetipi di Pace” by Fabrizia Frezza with Felice Limosani. A site-specific installation across the five altars of the Chiesa di San Rocco in Chiaia\, exploring the meaning of peace and encounter through sculpture\, light\, and words. (Chiesa di San Rocco a Chiaia – Fondazione Pietà de’ Turchini) \n“L’Equilibrista” by Lombardini22\, with Mangini and B&B Italia. An immersive environment built around the idea of balance as something human and relational\, not just physical — a space meant to be walked through\, where every movement shifts the whole. (Palazzo Ruffo della Scaletta) \n“Controtempo”\, a show on glass master Massimo Lunardon curated by Domitilla Dardi. More than fifty works trace his collaborations with artists and designers over the years\, alongside a new monograph published by Corraini. (Fondazione Plart) \n  \nControtempo exhibition\, curated by Domitilla Dardi: works by Massimo Lunardon. On this image\, design by Antonio Aricò \nOther Special Exhibitions\n\n“Common Ground” by Margherita Rui\, with NasonMoretti\, Fornace Brioni\, Fortuny\, Imolarte\, and Amenta Incisioni. Five Italian manufacturing excellences come together around the idea of the table as a place for meeting and sharing. (Chiesa di Santa Caterina da Siena – Fondazione Pietà de’ Turchini) \n“Light on Spain”\, curated by EDIT Napoli with support from the PICE program\, featuring Tomás Alía\, Álvaro Catalán de Ocón\, Curro Claret\, Mayice Studio\, Lucas Muñoz Muñoz\, and Jorge Penadés. Six lamps by six Spanish designers take over the historic rooms of Palazzo Cellamare\, a building deeply tied to the long cultural exchange between Naples and Spain. (Palazzo Cellamare) \n  \nLight on Spain\, Lucas Munoz\, photo Francesco Stelitano\, courtesy EDIT Napoli \nThe jury and the awards\nThe award for the best unreleased product shown at the fair will again be handed out by a jury of industry figures: Aliai Forte\, designer and entrepreneur at Rocco Forte Hotels; Francesca Lanzavecchia\, designer; Asad Syrkett\, Head of Editorial Content at AD Italia; and Maria Dolores Uribe\, founder and Creative Director of Studio 84 and UNNO Gallery. The winner gets to come back and exhibit for free at next year’s edition. The jury looks for projects that combine smart design\, respect for cultural heritage\, and a well-thought-out price. \nA new workshop program at EDIT Napoli 2026\nFor the first time\, EDIT Napoli opens up a workshop program to the public\, built to show what design looks like beyond the finished object — through process\, gesture\, technique\, and material. This year\, visitors don’t just walk through the fair: they can stop\, try things out\, and make something alongside other people. \n“Brick after brick: bread after bread” by Studio CoPain. This French design collective invites participants to give stale bread a second life\, turning it into a material to build with. Through sanding\, scorching\, carving\, and cutting\, the group builds a small dream house entirely out of reused bread\, and even learns to make an edible glue and work with “dead dough\,” a traditional pastry mix. The workshop ends around the table\, sharing what everyone made. Duration: 3 hours. Up to 20 participants. Location: La Santissima. Saturday 10 October at 10:00\, Sunday 11 October at 10:00. \n“Woven 3D Shapes – Original Digital Technology” by Alison Grace Martin. This independent artist and researcher looks at the connection between geometry\, craft\, and the structures found in nature\, guiding participants through building woven 3D paper shapes. Inspired by the fragility of flowers and shells\, the workshop focuses on hyperbolic geometry and soft curves\, offering a slow\, hands-on approach to digital design. Duration: 3 hours. Up to 20 participants. Location: La Santissima. Saturday 10 October at 15:00\, Sunday 11 October at 15:00. \n \nWhy visit \nEDIT Napoli 2026 mixes rare\, independent design with real Neapolitan history — see it at La Santissima and inside palaces and churches usually closed to the public. New this year: Camera con Vista\, a Lancia-backed installation\, and hands-on workshops open to everyone. It’s a compact\, walkable fair with real international reach\, from Cape Town to Spain.\n \nEDIT Napoli Essentials\nOctober 9-11\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\nLocation: La Santissima\, Vico Trinità delle Monache\, 1\, Naples\nOpening hours: h. 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM\nSize: 80 exhibitors\, over 20\,000 visitors\nVisit website EditNapoli.com for more info \nTickets: €20 full price\, €10 reduced (under 25)\, free for under 14\nTickets are available online at editnapoli.com/visit \nSome images from EDIT Napoli 2025 \n\n\n\n	\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/edit-napoli-2026-where-design-shapes/
LOCATION:La Santissima\, Vico Trinità delle Monache\, 1\, Napoli\, 80134\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Design & Furniture Trade Shows
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