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SUMMARY:London Design Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:Soho joins the Map\, China and Japan take centre stage\nLondon Design Festival‘s 24th edition runs from 12 to 20 September 2026. Soho becomes the eleventh district\, joining Bankside\, Brompton\, Chelsea\, Dalston to Stokey\, EC1\, Fleet Street Quarter\, Mayfair\, Park Royal\, Blackhorse Creates and the renamed Shoreditch Design Week. The Mayor of London is Principal Supporter this year\, while Bloomberg Philanthropies continues to back the Festival through the Bloomberg Connects digital guide. The stated theme for 2026 is dialogue – East and West\, past and future\, human and non-human – and it shows most clearly in three projects built around Chinese and Japanese craft. \nDiscover Shoreditch Design Week 2026 \nQuick Facts for London Design Festival 2026\nLondon Design Festival\, London\, September 12-20\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\nSize: 11 Design Districts\, 350\,000+ visitors\nHub: V&A South Kensington\nOther venues: Barbican\, Somerset House\, the Strand\, Wapping\nIn general\, free admission\, some events require paid tickets  \nCheck the complete guide & calendar for opening hours \nVisit londondesignfestival.com for info \nFraming LDF 2026\, Courtesy Pentagram & London Design Festival \nThe Asia Programme\nAt Somerset House\, Chinese media group Sun Media Group presents Reviving Craft — Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Design. It’s the third edition of the exhibition\, after the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2024 and Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan in 2025. Curators Su Dan (Tsinghua University\, Academy of Arts & Design) and Yang Lan (broadcaster\, chair of Sun Media Group) bring together more than sixty Chinese and international artisans under the theme Reflection of the Mind. Sun Media Group is also a Programme Partner of the Global Design Forum this year. \nThe Japanese artisans pair with designers\nCraft x Tech returns for its second edition\, curated by Maria Cristina Didero and founded by Hideki Yoshimoto of design studio Tangent. It pairs craftspeople from Japan’s Tokai region with international designers: Australian designer David Caon with third-generation ceramicist Yohei Ito\, Singapore studio Lanzavecchia + Wai with paper-maker Takanori Senda\, Canadian designer Philippe Malouin with Ando Cloisonne\, a metalwork house founded in 1880. \nDiscover Material Matters 2026 \nCraft x Tech Tokai Project group photo. Photo: Noritoshi Kuroki\, courtesy London Design Festival \nMixZ\, a new platform connecting Asia and the UK\, stages two projects: a Dehua porcelain exhibition at the V&A\, and an installation at the Old Selfridges Hotel on future living through Shenzhen’s design and tech sector\, with several Chinese brands making their UK debut. \nThe Landmark Project\nThe Festival’s Landmark Project\, The Pangolin Shield by Studio Saar and Atelier One\, adds an adjacent reading of the same theme: a bamboo pavilion on the Strand built from Indian police shields and rain shields\, positioned facing the bust of Jawaharlal Nehru outside India’s High Commission. \nDetail of The Pangolin Shield drawing\, courtesy London Design Festival \nOther Special Projects at London Design Festival 2026\nMADE x Barbican launches an interiors collection at the Barbican\, developed from archival research into the estate’s interiors and the work of designer Miriam Howitt. The 23-piece collection covers furniture\, lighting\, textiles and accessories\, available from MADE.COM from August 2026. \nMade x Barbican collection \nAt the V&A\, this year’s edition of V&A x LDF is titled Awakenings\, co-curated by Carrie Chan and Kristian Volsing. The programme spans the museum’s galleries and includes work from Henry Svendsen\, Sam Ghantous\, Andre Williams\, Nina Davies and Albert Yonathan Setyawan\, alongside new commissions from Aziza Kadyri\, Eunjo Lee and V&A Emerging Designer 2026\, Playfool. \nDiscover the Global Design Forum 2026 \nThe Design Museum’s LDF programme includes NIGO: From Japan with Love\, the first retrospective on NIGO\, KENZO’s Artistic Director. The museum’s annual PLATFORM series presents new work by designer and artist Simone Brewster\, with a guided tour by curator Hadeel Eltayeb on 12 September and a panel on design practice and motherhood on 15 September\, featuring Brewster\, Laxmi Hussein\, Emefa Cole and Hettie Judah. \nL-Acoustics presents an immersive sound installation at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station\, built in 1890 and open to the public for the first time in 13 years. \nThe eleven Design Districts\nSoho and Shoreditch Design Week carry the most defined programmes this year. \nSoho joins the Festival for the first time\, led by Informare’s Anna King\, with a programme involving architects\, property developers and branding agencies. \nShoreditch Design Week\, the evolution of the former Shoreditch Design Triangle\, is now the Festival’s largest district: more than sixty showrooms and galleries\, running 15–20 September\, with four main exhibition venues concentrated in the first three days around emerging designers and new materials. \nDiscover Shoreditch Design Week first edition \nMaterial Matters at Unlocked \nThe remaining nine districts — Bankside\, Brompton\, Chelsea\, Dalston to Stokey\, EC1\, Fleet Street Quarter\, Mayfair\, Park Royal and Blackhorse Creates — complete the Festival’s map. \nMedals\, Launch Pad and Identity\nThe London Design Medals will be awarded on 14 September across four categories: London Design Medal\, Lifetime Achievement Medal\, Emerging Design Medal and Design Innovation Medal. Winners are announced in early September. \nPith® sponsors five emerging designers through the Festival’s Launch Pad initiative this year\, giving participants a physical or digital platform plus editorial coverage across LDF and Pith® channels. Applications closed 31 July 2026\, with participants announced in August. \nPentagram\, the Festival’s design partner for more than two decades\, developed this year’s graphic identity under the theme Framing LDF. \nWhy visit\nCombined with a new district\, an enlarged Global Design Forum and the Festival’s usual concentration of museum and gallery programming\, it is one of the few weeks in the calendar where these conversations are staged at this scale in one city. For an Asia-focused audience\, LDF26 offers three exhibitions built directly around Chinese and Japanese craft\, backed by institutional partners on both sides — Sun Media Group\, Tsinghua University\, and a first UK platform for a number of Shenzhen design and tech brands.  \nThe V&A’s Awakenings\, the Design Museum’s NIGO retrospective and MADE’s Barbican collection give the week a strong museum-led draw on their own. Soho’s debut and Shoreditch Design Week’s expanded format also make this an edition worth tracking for anyone following how the Festival’s district model evolves. \nQuick Facts for London Design Festival 2026\nLondon Design Festival\, London\, September 12-20\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\nSize: 11 Design Districts\, 350\,000+ visitors\nHub: V&A South Kensington\nOther venues: Barbican\, Somerset House\, the Strand\, Wapping\nIn general\, free admission\, some events require paid tickets \n\nCheck the complete guide & calendar for opening hours \nVisit londondesignfestival.com for info \nRelated events: Shoreditch Design Week\, Material Matters\, Global Design Forum
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/london-design-festival-2026/
LOCATION:London\, London\, SW1\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Lake Como Design Festival 2026: Border Becomes a Meeting Point
DESCRIPTION:Lake Como Design Festival returns for its eighth edition from 12 to 20 September 2026\, and this year it steps outside its usual footprint. Alongside the familiar exhibitions and installations around Como and its lake\, the festival moves for the first time into a set of new venues in Lecco. The theme\, Border\, runs through every part of the programme\, and the organisers treat it less as a dividing line and more as a place where things meet: relationships form\, tensions surface\, and ideas change shape. \nThat idea shows up in a concrete way. By reaching into Lecco\, the festival pushes past the boundary it has kept to since it started. It also launches a new strand of exhibitions built with the region’s higher education institutions: the University of Insubria\, the Como Conservatory\, the Aldo Galli Academy of Como/IED\, and the Politecnico di Milano’s Lecco campus. The goal is to pull younger audiences into design\, architecture\, and art through work they can actually engage with\, and to turn the festival into a place where long-term collaborations can start\, not just a one-off cultural event. \nDiscover Lake Como Design Festival 2025  \n \nVilla del Grumello: Future in the Past\nVilla del Grumello and its park open to the public again\, this time hosting Future in the Past\, an exhibition that looks at how memory feeds design. Rather than treating archives as storage for old material\, the show presents them as active spaces that can still produce something new. \nThe line-up brings together several distinct voices. Artist Lupo Borgonovo shows Disegno Nomade\, large drawings based on buckles once used by nomadic peoples across Eurasia. Designer Nicolò Spinelli teams up with Simonetto\, the Meda woodworking atelier\, on an architectural intervention by Elisa Ossino built from gradient eucalyptus wood panelling. Etel comes back to the festival with a show on Lina Bo Bardi‘s furniture work in Brazil\, including her Carrinho de Chá and Cadeira de Balanço. Annarita Aversa of Architetti Artigiani Anonimi presents Proporzione Mediterranea\, curated by Giustini Stagetti Gallery and rooted in the vaulted houses of the Amalfi Coast. \n \nLake Como Design Festival\nComo & Lecco\, September 12-20\, 2026 \nSeven editions so far\nFor professional and general public\nSize: 20+ site-specific locations\, 650+ designers and galleries involved 100\,000+ visitors \n \nThe Carla Badiali Archive shows drawings from Badiali’s work with Hubert de Givenchy and Pierre Balmain\, and Eredi Marelli brings a 1948 bar cabinet by Paolo Buffa engraved with motifs drawn from Andrea Appiani’s lost decorative cycle for Milan’s Royal Palace. Francesca Brambilla curates 1in16 – A Border Divided\, a Story Shared\, where each artist works on a single sheet of AnimaGrigia® paper that only takes its final form once it’s divided; the resulting notebooks go on sale during the festival\, with proceeds funding Wonderlake Como’s schools programme for 2026–2027. \nIn the park surrounding the villa\, Nella Natura: Stories of Those Who Chose Another Life opens as an outdoor exhibition. Curated by Paola Manfredi with photographs by Selene Magnolia Gatti\, it follows six people who live on the edge between the city and the wild\, offering a quiet counterpoint to the villa’s archive-focused programme. \nDiscover EDIT Napoli 2025  \n \nVilla Saporiti: Contemporary Design Selection\nFor the first time\, the Contemporary Design Selection moves to Villa Saporiti\, a late-18th-century neoclassical building known for its rare elliptical salon and lakeside facade. Curated for the fourth year running by Giovanna Massoni and directed by festival coordinator Francesca Prandelli\, the show gathers more than fifty independent designers\, studios\, artisans\, and galleries from around thirty countries\, all responding to the Border theme through an open call launched in January. \nMassoni frames the selection as a space where different geographies and practices sit side by side rather than compete\, drawing on ideas from Gilles Clément\, Zygmunt Bauman\, Tomás Maldonado\, and Bruno Latour to describe borders as places of exchange rather than separation. The work on show moves across several interpretations of that idea: pieces built from waste materials or biomaterials sit next to reflections on craft and manufacturing; some designers hybridise materials and media\, others build objects meant to shift function depending on how they’re used. Several projects sit at the edge between authored and participatory design\, between individual and collective practice\, and between human and non-human ways of making. \nVilla Saporiti\, new location for 2026 \n  \nNomade: Fine Comune\nInside the former Church of Santa Caterina\, Nomade presents Fine Comune\, developed with Ultrapresent Studio. The show plays on the Latin root of the word border\, con-finis\, which points to a shared edge rather than a wall. Concrete and metal sculptures by Luca Monterastelli sit in the side aisle\, while the main space\, laid out with a soft floor and central seating\, brings together Acerbis’s Free System modular seating\, collectible pieces from Movimento Gallery\, and handcrafted rugs by cc-tapis. \nAlberto Granata: Border People\nAt the Chiostro di Sant’Abbondio\, photographer Alberto Granata shows sculpture photography under the title Gente di Confine\, curated by Eugenio Bitetti. His images sit deliberately between the material and the metaphysical\, giving stone figures a sense of life that pulls them out of pure history. \nIco Parisi Design Archive\nThe Archivio Design Ico Parisi marks its return with Ico Parisi e Giuliano Collina: Arte Condivisa\, tracing the collaboration between the two artists from the 1970s through to 1995\, when La Ruota\, the gallery founded by Ico and Luisa Parisi\, closed. The show includes ceramic pieces the pair made together in 1971 and material connected to Operazione Arcevia\, the alternative community housing project first shown at the Venice Biennale in 1976\, now marking its fiftieth anniversary. \n \nComo Conservatory: Atto Puro\nUltrapresent Studio curates Atto Puro at the Como Conservatory\, built around Cosmos\, the audio system it designed in 2025 to revive a late-1970s composition by Giusto Pio\, originally produced by Franco Battiato. Students from the Conservatory’s electronic music programme work through the space daily\, and visitors are invited to sit in on a live\, evolving listening session. \nAldo Galli Academy: After Evidence\nAfter Evidence\, the third issue of IED’s Notes on Plural Intelligences\, comes out of research into an archive of forensic images. It grew from a collaboration between IED and LABANOF-MUSA\, the University of Milan’s forensic anthropology lab\, which holds a collection of around 20\,000 skeletons spanning nearly 2\,000 years. The show doesn’t try to turn this material into a straightforward story. Instead it sits with fragments\, sound\, and image to ask how something built to establish fact can also become a space for memory and attention. \n \nLecco: three new venues\nThe festival’s move into Lecco brings three projects. Oltre al Vedere\, curated by Francesca Brambilla and developed by Cultura Meccanica at the Politecnico di Milano’s Department of Mechanical Engineering\, builds audio-tactile devices that let blind and partially sighted visitors experience design and art through touch and sound — this year’s centrepiece is a sensory version of Vico Magistretti’s Eclisse lamp.  \nAt the Politecnico’s Lecco campus\, Unstable Borders comes out of the AMALPI MORE research project on landslides and Alpine landscape change\, using models and data to make the slow movement of mountains perceptible. Alongside it\, Alpine Landscapes: Traces of Stone\, Community Bonds Between Italy and Switzerland presents the PAESALP project\, which looks at traditional stone construction and craft across the Italy–Switzerland border region. A third Lecco show\, Eterno Femminino\, curated by Francesca Brambilla\, Filippo Invernizzi\, and Fabio Martini\, uses Paleolithic and Neolithic Venus figurines alongside work by contemporary artists to trace how images of femininity have shifted between archetype and stereotype over time. \nStudio Visits and Rationalist Como\nAs in past editions\, the festival runs its Studio Visit programme\, opening design studios\, galleries\, ateliers\, and archives across the region to the public\, alongside a guided tour of Como’s Rationalist architecture. \nWhy visit \nThis year’s edition steps outside Como for the first time\, taking the festival’s design and archive exhibitions into Lecco. With over fifty international designers on show alongside historic archives from Ico Parisi\, Lina Bo Bardi and Carla Badiali\, it’s a rare chance to see contemporary design sit side by side with the region’s design heritage. \nPractical note\nThe festival is genuinely worth the trip\, but accessibility varies a lot by venue. The exhibitions in central Como are easy to reach on foot\, no issues there. Villa del Grumello\, the Serre\, and the Chilometro della Conoscenza involve uneven paths\, stairs\, or distances that can be tough if you have any mobility limitations\, so it’s worth planning ahead if that applies to you. We don’t yet have details on accessibility in Lecco\, since this is its first year as part of the festival. \nLake Como Design Festival\nComo & Lecco\, September 12-20\, 2026 \nSeven editions so far\nFor professional and general public\nSize: 20+ site-specific locations\, 650+ designers and galleries involved 100\,000+ visitors
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LOCATION:Como\, Como\, 22100\, Italy
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SUMMARY:Tallinn Design Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Baltic region’s premier design event\, Disainiöö (Tallinn Design Festival)\, returns from 28 September to 4 October 2026 at the iconic Põhjala Factory. For over two decades\, the festival has served as a vital international hub where designers\, creative professionals\, students\, and enthusiasts converge to foster innovation and collaboration. Drawing an annual crowd of over 10\,000 attendees\, the event has gained widespread recognition worldwide.\n \nTallinn Design Festival\, September 28 – October 4\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\nSize: one main venue\, Põhjala Factory\, plus satellite events\, over 100 brands and designers\nAround 10\,000 visitors\nFree admission upon registration for many events\nDesign night party: paid ticket\nInternational Design Conference: paid ticket\nGeneral opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday\, h. 11:00 am – 8:00 pm \nOpening hours may vary in the different venues\nPlease check Disainio.ee for more info and the complete program \nDiscover Tallinn Design Festival 2025 \nDesign exhibition at Tallinn Design Festival 2025 \nTheme 2026: Future of Product Design\n\nThe 2026 edition explores the function of product design within our rapidly evolving landscape\, emphasizing sustainability\, flexibility\, inclusivity\, and an awareness of materials. \nFestival director Ilona Gurjanova observes: “While contemporary focus has largely shifted toward immaterial design\, we must pivot back to the fundamental values of physical product design. Every choice—covering material selection\, form\, manufacturing\, and product lifespan—directly impacts both our daily lives and the health of the planet.” \nThroughout the week\, the festival offers an extensive schedule featuring conferences\, exhibitions\, interactive workshops\, community gatherings\, and commercial design showcases\, integrating design into everyday urban life. Over 100 events are scheduled throughout the city. \nRead more on “Design For Equality\, International Design Conference 2025“\n \nDesign For All at Tallinn Design Festival 2025 \nDesign Festival Highlights \n\nInternational Conference “Future of Product Design” on 1 October\, featuring renowned experts such as Tom Lloyd (Pearson Lloyd\, UK)\, Richard Hall (UK)\, Raffaella Mangiarotti (Italy)\, Jean‑Louis Frechin (France)\, Jonas Pettersson (Sweden)\, Jaume Domenech (Germany)\, and others. \n\n\nInternational Design Conference at Tallinn Design Festival 2025 \n\n“Well Made – What It Means Today\,” a major exhibition curated by Tom Lloyd. Opening 28 September\, it presents nearly 50 international design objects alongside insights from over 20 prominent Estonian contributors\n\nBRUNO Product Design Award 2026 exhibition\, celebrating top-tier Estonian product design across lifestyle\, environmental\, and engineering sectors\n\nFrance Impact Design Award exhibition\, organized in partnership with APCI\, showcasing exemplary French design work\n\nArts Thread Global Graduate Show\, highlighting works from emerging international designers\n\nShowcases from leading Estonian design institutions: Pallas\, EKA\, TÜ Viljandi Culture Academy\, TalTech\, and TLÜ Haapsalu College\n\nAn international poster exhibition courtesy of the Haapsalu Graphic Design Festival\nThe DOM sustainable fashion performance\, serving as the festival’s opening event on 28 September\nDesign Street and the SISUSTUS+ interior and outdoor design section\nPechaKucha Night\, the Design Auction\, and a diverse range of workshops suitable for all ages\nA family-friendly area created in partnership with Vivita Tallinn\nCurated design bike tours through the city’s key design landmarks and venues\nA bustling satellite programme featuring open studios\, art galleries\, and guided city tours\n\nFrench Culture Day – 29 September Partnering with Jazzkaar\, the festival presents French Culture Day\, welcoming top French designers and cultural leaders\, and concluding with a Parisian chanson concert performed by the Rebecca Kontus Trio \nA Festival Shaping the Future “The BRUNO award\, which we present during the festival\, serves as our shared definition of what responsible\, future-ready product design looks like today\,” says Gurjanova. “It honours innovative work that establishes a new benchmark for aesthetics\, functionality\, and sustainability.”\n \nWhy visit \nVisiting the Tallinn Design Festival is an essential experience for anyone looking to explore the cutting edge of global innovation within the unique\, atmospheric setting of the historic Põhjala Factory. As the largest design event in the Baltics\, it offers an immersive program of over 100 activities\, including inspiring international conferences\, world-class exhibitions\, and interactive workshops. Whether you are a professional designer seeking insights into the future of sustainability or an enthusiast eager to discover new creative trends\, the festival provides an unparalleled opportunity to network and engage with the absolute best of contemporary design. \nSome images from Tallinn Design Festival 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\nTallinn Design Festival\, September 28 – October 4\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\nSize: one main venue\, Põhjala Factory\, plus satellite events\, over 100 brands and designers\nAround 10\,000 visitors\nFree admission upon registration \nDesign night party: paid ticket\nInternational Design Conference: paid ticket\nGeneral opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday\, h. 11:00 am – 8:00 pm \nOpening hours may vary in the different venues\nPlease check Disainio.ee for more info and the complete program
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/tallinn-design-festival-2026/
LOCATION:Põhjala Factory\, Marati tn 5\, Tallinn\, 10151\, Estonia
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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 
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/design-week-mexico-2026-the-program-of-mexico-citys-design-week/
LOCATION:Mexico City\, Mexico City\, 01000\, Mexico
CATEGORIES:Design Festivals,Design Weeks & Weekends
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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:Barcelona Design Week 2026: PRO-TEST and the Value of the Prototype
DESCRIPTION:Before a project turns into an object\, a space or a service\, it goes through a stage of trials\, fixes and open questions. This stage is usually hidden behind the final result. Barcelona Design Week 2026 brings it out into the open\, looking at design as a process that experiments\, checks and turns an idea into something that can really find a place in people’s lives. \nFrom 14 to 25 October 2026\, Barcelona hosts the 21st edition of Barcelona Design Week under the theme PRO-TEST: Prototyping and Testing\, curated by Alessandro Manetti. The edition also links up with Barcelona 2026 World Capital of Architecture\, connecting design\, space and new ways of picturing the future. \nDiscover Madrid Design Week 2026\n \nKave\, main sponsor of Barcelona Design Week 2026 \nFrom Project to Prototype\nPRO-TEST shifts the focus from the result to the path that leads to it. The theme builds on two key stages of the design process: prototyping and testing. These are the moments when an idea moves beyond the abstract and starts to deal with real materials\, uses\, needs and people. \nA prototype is not yet a final answer. It helps put an idea to the test\, find out what works\, spot what needs rethinking and open up new possibilities. Seen this way\, the prototype is not just a step towards an end product but a tool to explore and learn. Designing means making assumptions\, checking them against reality and accepting that every proposal can change. \n \nPRO-TEST: Experimenting to Build Alternatives\nThe name also plays on a second reading. “Pro” points to what moves forward\, proposes\, promotes and provokes; “test” stands for trial\, experiment and comparison. Together they suggest protest as a form of proposal\, a way of facing uncertainty not only through criticism but by building visible\, tangible alternatives that stay open to change. \nDesign becomes a way to respond to today’s challenges with solutions that people can see\, discuss and improve\, without claiming to have the final word. As the organisers put it\, BDW 2026 looks at design as a practice able to turn questions into processes\, intuitions into prototypes and alternatives into evidence.\n \nService Design Disrupted\, main sponsor at Barcelona Design Week 2026 \nA Design Week Spread Across the City\nOver eleven days\, Barcelona Design Week 2026 lays out a programme of activities\, exhibitions\, installations\, talks and experiences in different venues across Barcelona. It brings together professionals\, companies\, schools\, institutions and the wider public. \nThe programme also includes OFF BDW\, associated venues and events built together with the local creative community\, linking studios\, schools\, companies\, designers and institutions. The city becomes a kind of lab where visitors can see not only finished products but also ideas still taking shape and design processes open to debate. \nBarcelona as a Lab for New Futures\nThis approach carries extra weight in 2026\, thanks to the dialogue with the World Capital of Architecture. Design and architecture share many of the same questions: how to make spaces more liveable\, how to keep up with social and environmental change\, and how to turn complex needs into real solutions. \nBarcelona Design Week invites visitors to look at these challenges starting from the process. Before building the future\, it has to be imagined\, drawn\, tested and\, when needed\, changed. This space between idea and reality is where Barcelona chooses to place design in 2026.\n \nWMF\, main sponsor at Barcelona Design Week 2026 \nWho Is Behind Barcelona Design Week\nSet up in 2006\, Barcelona Design Week is led and organised by the Barcelona Creativity & Design Foundation\, promoted by Barcelona City Council and Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHub)\, in collaboration with FAD Fostering Arts and Design. It is one of the city’s main creative events and a key date on the international design calendar. \nIts goal is to bring design closer to citizens and to every part of the economy\, connect professionals\, companies\, institutions and the creative community\, and show Barcelona’s creative energy to the world. BDW is also a member of World Design Weeks\, the Barcelona-based network that brings together more than 40 design and creativity events worldwide. \nThe visual identity of the 2026 edition is by the studio Abuela\, which gives shape to the journey from idea to prototype\, from prototype to test\, and from test to real change. \nWhy visit\nBarcelona Design Week 2026 offers a rare look behind the finished product\, showing how ideas are tested\, questioned and improved before they reach people’s lives. Across eleven days and many venues\, it brings together professionals\, companies\, schools and the public\, making it a good chance to meet the local creative community and pick up new ideas. With the added link to the World Capital of Architecture\, this edition is also a timely stop for anyone interested in where design and architecture meet.\n \n \nBarcelona Design Week 2026\, 14-25\, October\, 2026\nSize: over 67\,000 visitors\, more than 130 activities\nLocations: different venues\nAdmission: free\nOpening hours: each event sets its own opening hours\nFor info: Barcelonadesignweek.com website
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/barcelona-design-week-2026-pro-test-and-the-value-of-the-prototype/
LOCATION:Barcelona\, Barcelona\, 08001\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Design Festivals,Design Weeks & Weekends
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