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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Dutch Design Week 2026: R.A.W. Takes Design Back to Its Roots in Eindhoven
DESCRIPTION:Dutch Design Week 2026 returns to Eindhoven from 17 to 25 October with a theme that goes back to the core of the discipline: R.A.W.\, short for Rebel Authentic Worth. At a time when so much of daily life feels optimised\, filtered and packaged\, DDW turns its attention to what can’t be fully controlled. The idea is simple. Design doesn’t start with perfection\, it starts with the urge to break open existing structures\, try things out and ask questions. \nFor nine days\, the 26th edition of the festival will show not only finished work but also early\, rough iterations. Some projects grow across several editions\, so returning visitors can follow how they develop over time. \nDiscover Dutch Design Week 2025 \nDutch Design Week 2025. Photo Max Kneefel\, courtesy Dutch Design Week \nR.A.W.: the DDW 2026 theme explained\nThe organisers point out that the word “design” is now used more widely than ever\, and sometimes that blurs what makes it distinctive. With R.A.W.\, DDW chooses the unpolished and the experimental\, and puts the design process itself at the centre: questioning\, testing and opening up alternatives. \nEindhoven fits this approach well. The city has long been in transition and has built a close bond with design\, with a habit of imagining\, making\, testing and starting over. Its industrial past works less as a backdrop and more as the ground on which a growing design ecosystem keeps building new connections. As DDW puts it\, design at this edition can be confronting\, uncomfortable\, hopeful\, or simply beautiful. \nDiscover Dutch Design Week 2024 \nSonic Maze\, Grand Project Dutch Design Week 2025. Photo Max Kneefel\, courtesy Dutch Design Week \nDutch Design Week 2026 Beacons: Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain\nEach year DDW names its Beacons\, pioneers who put together a project\, event or exhibition for both the public and professionals. Past Beacons include Julia Watson\, Piet Hein Eek\, Lidewij Edelkoort and Yinka Ilori. For 2026\, the Dutch Beacon is biodesigner Emma van der Leest and the international Beacon is Anab Jain of Superflux. Both share a focus on caring for the planet\, though they work at very different scales. \nEmma van der Leest (born 1991) is a Rotterdam-based biodesigner\, researcher\, lecturer and author who works with living organisms such as fungi\, bacteria and algae to develop fully compostable materials. She founded BlueCity Lab\, a circular hub for designers and entrepreneurs. In Hall D of the Klokgebouw she will set up The Biodesign Warehouse – Department Store For Life\, which brings the familiar format of a department store together with science and biology. The aim is to show how biodesign is already moving into everyday life and scaling up into an industry. \nAnab Jain co-founded Superflux in 2009 with Jon Ardern. The studio is known for speculative design and experiential futures\, and in 2022 received the Royal Designer for Industry title from the Royal Society of Arts. Its work has been shown at MoMA\, the V&A\, Tate Modern\, the Vitra Design Museum and the National Museum of China. Jain\, who teaches at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna\, will give a lecture built around one question: what role can design play in a changing world\, shaped by climate extremes and technological and geopolitical shifts? Her answer points to design as a way to make possible futures tangible\, something people can step into rather than just talk about. \n  \nEmma van der Leest and Anab Jain \nEight large-scale installations across Eindhoven\nWorking with Bureau Binnenstad Eindhoven\, DDW turns the city centre and the Strijp-S district into an open-air exhibition. The eight installations came out of an open call for designers and are free to visit throughout the week. Together they form a walking route that touches on inclusion\, community life\, public space and health. \nIn the city centre\n\nBLAUPAUSE\, Kollektiv Plus X (18 Septemberplein): three trailers turn into blue wooden structures\, a stage\, a grandstand and a kiosk\, showing how public space can take on new functions for a short time.\nHuis\, een installatie over drempels\, Studio Kars en Boom x RAUM (Nieuwe Emmasingel): a colourful play space on wheels where children with and without disabilities can play together without barriers.\nFIELD\, Isabel + Helen (Stadhuisplein): wind-powered turbines on wheels that visitors can move around\, creating patterns that keep changing.\nConsultation Room of the Future\, Atelier Van Lieshout (Markt): a seven-metre golden bird perched on a giant egg\, unveiled on 28 August to open the cultural season. Inside the egg\, visitors can get things off their chest\, while the work asks whether AI and robotics really help mental health\, or whether human contact matters more.\nWaiting for the Bus\, Luca Ortmann (Demer): yellow steel tubes shaped into a spot to sit\, lean and wait\, a reminder that pauses are part of city life.\n\nUmbra Pavilion\, Grand Project at Dutch Design Week 2025 \nIn Strijp-S\n\nBlind Spots\, Fairspace × Studio Shruthi Venkat × Sagitta Creatives: a web of cameras\, screens and voices that changes as visitors leave their responses behind\, bringing up hidden differences in how safety is experienced depending on identity.\nColonic Cleansing Clinic\, Atelier Van Lieshout: an intestine-shaped structure that looks at how illness\, treatment and recovery could fit into daily life. Like the golden bird\, it belongs to Van Lieshout’s project Sanitas Futurum on the future of wellbeing and healthcare.\nElectric Grand\, Antoon Versteegde + Bart van Dongen: an electric piano opened up into a bamboo structure\, with each note coming from its own speaker. Visitors stand inside the instrument while the two artists improvise.\n\nPolestar Design Rides and We Harvest Wind\nDDW 2026 also launches a multi-year partnership with Polestar. The Polestar Design Rides will run daily from 17 to 25 October\, carrying visitors between DDW venues in cars topped with design objects. At the Klokgebouw\, artist Thijs Biersteker presents We Harvest Wind\, an interactive installation on renewable energy\, and Polestar will show its new Polestar 4 SUV to the Dutch public for the first time.\n \nWhy visit\n\nFor nine days the whole city gives itself over to design\, with an open\, curious and hands-on mood that feels closer to a lab than a trade fair.\nBuilt on Eindhoven’s industrial past\, the week brings together designers\, companies\, schools and researchers in an ecosystem where new ideas\, partnerships and talent keep coming through. With the theme R.A.W.\, DDW 2026 shows design as it takes shape\, from rough first ideas to finished work.\nEight large-scale installations turn Eindhoven’s city centre and Strijp-S into a free open-air design route.\nThe Beacons\, Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain\, bring biodesign and speculative futures into a public debate.\nWorks by Atelier Van Lieshout\, Thijs Biersteker and young designers take on health\, inclusion and energy.\nPolestar Design Rides make it easy to move around the festival venues from 17 to 25 October. \nDutch Design Week dates and more\nOctober 17-25\, 2026\n\nLocation: Eindhoven\, with main hubs in the city centre and Strijp-S\nSize: 350\,000+ visitors\, 2\,500+ designers\nTheme: R.A.W. (Rebel Authentic Worth)\nBeacons: Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain (Superflux)\nPublic installations: eight\, free to visit\n\nDutch Design Week (DDW) locations are generally open daily from 11 am to 6 pm\, though hours can vary slightly by specific venue or exhibition\nPaid admission: discover more on Dutch Design Week website DDW.nl
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/dutch-design-week-2026-r-a-w-takes-design-back-to-its-roots-in-eindhoven/
LOCATION:Eindhoven\, Eindhoven\, 5502\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Design Weeks & Weekends
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