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Milan Design Week 2024

Milan Design Week 2024 is back in Milan from April 14 to 21. This year, Milano Design Week promises to be full of events, exhibitions, and installations, and the global design community will meet in Milan for a week.

This is an interactive map with a selection of events

Fuorisalone.it, for Milan Design Week 2024, suggests a theme: Materia Natura (Matter Nature). Design practices are fundamental to developing a conscious design culture, emphasizing sustainability as a guiding principle and core value in the creative process. The Fuorisalone will take place as usual in conjunction with the Salone del Mobile.Milano. It focuses on the themes of circular economy, reuse, and sustainability of methods and materials.

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March 27, 2024

Bangkok Design Week 2024

Design Festivals

The seventh edition of Bangkok Design Week 2024 (BKKDW2024) will take place from January 27 to February 4, 2024. The theme of the 2024 edition is “Livable Scape: The More people act, the better the city.” Bangkok Design Week comprises more than 400 events spread across various districts in the city, including Charoenkrung-Talad Noi, Samyan-Siam, Ari-Pradipat, Phra Nakhon, Phrom Phong, and others. Among the various activities are exhibitions, conferences, and workshops, with initiatives and ideas to encourage change.

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December 25, 2023

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Dutch Design Week 2024

Design Festivals

The Dutch Design Week is an event dedicated to Dutch design that takes place in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in the last week of October. Eindhoven, partly due to the presence of the Philips Headquarters for Benelux, is a city devoted to design. Established in 2002, the design festival takes place during the last week of October and lasts nine days. It features exhibitions, studio visits, workshops, seminars, and parties throughout the city.

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Dutch Design Week 2023, Waterwall Fountain, photo Max Kneefel

Eindhoven: a city devoted to design

The event hosts companies such as Philips, Philips Design, as well as the famous Design Academy Eindhoven, which participates here with numerous installations and talks. In 20 years, Dutch Design Week has reached about 120 different events, and more than 300,000 visitors. Ambassadors of past editions include Li Edelkoort, president of the Design Academy Eindhoven from 1999 to 2008, Stefano Boeri, Marcus Fairs, Formafantasma, and other renowned architects and designers.

The social side of design

DDW (Dutch Design Week) is a stage for all the world’s design. Here designers meet, exchange knowledge and information, and the general public can explore and see where the design of the future is going. Innovation, expertise and talent are the keywords throughout the design festival, which brings together more than 2,600 designers. For the general public and the professionals this is an opportunity to delve into the social aspect of design.

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Dutch Design Week 2023, photo by Max Kneefel

Dutch Design Week 2024

The Dutch Design Week 2024 edition runs from October 19 to 27 and takes place in many different locations. The festival revolves around different leading themes and hosts various kinds of events and locations. The exhibitions are on different subjects: Signature & Collectible Design, Speculative & Social Design, Product & Craft Design, Service & Innovative Design, and Independent & Critical Design. The leading themes are Thriving Planet, Living Environment, Health & Wellbeing, Equal Society and Digital Future. Of particular interest is the youth program, DDW Young Route. It’s divided by age groups: 6-10 years, 10-14 years and over 14 years.

Real Unreal

The theme for 2024 is Real Unreal, and we can mention various exhibitions. In the Living Environment theme, at Piet Hein Eek, Strijp-R area, Teun Zwets showcases furniture from waste materials. Secrid Talent Podium, at Klokgebouw, spotlights talented product designers using creativity to drive sustainable industry change.

In the Thriving Planet theme, the Cooling Down the city exhibition, at NRE Terrain, Canal Zone. An innovative collaboration between designers and nature to tackle urban heat stress. With immersive speculative installations, including a green spa surrounding a revived oak tree. Designing Society, a Ketelhuisplein blends creativity, scientific insight, and corporate responsibility to envision a sustainable future.

For the Digital Future theme, Poetics of Prompting, at the MU Hybrid Art House, explores the emerging “language” of AI-human collaboration. The installation Processing the Unprocessed, in the Health & Wellbeing theme, in the Sectie-C area, invites visitors to experience the healing journey.

The Equal Society theme hosts the Trilix Bamboo Pavilion, at Ketelhuisplein, an eco-friendly architectural marvel, demonstrating bamboo’s potential in sustainable urban design. Temple of Peace at Ketelhuisplein, is a powerful artistic installation that brings together 80 unique flags, symbolizing new narratives of peace.

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Dutch Design Week 2023, photo by Max Kneefel

New 2024 program: Mission Days

DDW Mission Days, a new program for Dutch Design Week 2024, aims to facilitate meetings between designers and trade visitors. From Monday, October 21, to Friday, October 25, DDW and partners will host five themed days around missions.

During these Mission Days, DDW’s design and expert community will share insights, expertise, and networks through various workshops, conferences, tours, and events. Each day, there is a broad program with morning sessions, afternoon tours, and an evening program called DDW at Night. Professionals can curate their own Mission Day based on their preferences and schedule.

Why Visit

Dutch Design Week is one of the most interesting design festivals, thanks to the participation of the Dutch Design Academy in Eindhoven, and the presence of Philips, which has its Headquarters in Belgium here, and Philips Design. DDW thus becomes an ideal destination to discover where design is going, as a tool to change reality. Design, innovation, technology, are the drivers driving tomorrow’s world. The themes investigated by designers in this edition, which features more than 120 events, are global warming, digital future, and inclusive society.

Dutch Design Week, October 19-27, 2024

For professionals and general public
Size: over 120 events, 300,000 visitors
Visit Dutch Design Week website Ddw.nl for info

Some images from Dutch Design Week 2023

October 19, 2024

Dubai Design Week 2024

Design Festivals

Dubai Design Week is the largest design festival in the Middle East, taking place since 2015. It aims to promote the region’s talents through design.

Like many design weeks around the world, Dubai Design Week includes installations, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, a marketplace, and the leading contemporary design fair, Downtown Design. Dubai Design Week is under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Culture, in collaboration with Dubai Design District (d3), and with the support of Dubai Culture.

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2023, Dubai Design Week

Dubai Design Week 2024: tenth edition

The tenth edition is from November 5th to 10th, 2024, in the Dubai Design District (d3). Dubai Design Week 2024 underscores its decade-long cultural and economic impact on the $26 billion GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) design industry (Interior and Furniture Market). Its “seniority” also makes it the leading design event in the Middle East. The 2024 edition features over 500 well-known or emerging designers, brands and creative leaders from over 40 countries.

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2023, Dubai Design Week

Fueled by the rapid urbanization and diversification of the economy, with the rapidly growing population of tourists and residents, Dubai Design Week has evolved since 2015 to become a major international design event. Its success comes from many factors. Undoubtedly, support for local talent has played an important role, helping to develop a platform for local and international design.

Highlights at Dubai Design Week 2024

One of the main event of this edition is Downtown Design, the Middle East’s premier design fair, taking place November 6th to 9th on the d3 Waterfront Terrace.

Also in 2024 takes place Editions, the region’s first limited edition art and design fair. Editions hosts more than 50 galleries, collectives, and design studios.

Downtown Design 2021

The Urban Commissions competition

Dubai Design Week’s annual design competition, Urban Commissions, returns this year with the theme “Tawila,” which means “table” in Arabic. The competition invites designers and architects to explore the table beyond its form as a facilitator of common exchanges and experiences. The winner for 2024 is Altqadum, an architecture and interior design firm from Oman. Inspired by the musical culture of the Gulf, where communities traditionally gather around and accompany musicians, TukTuKDum is an innovative table encouraging interaction with the audience.

The Abwab program

Abwab, which means “doors” in Arabic, is a program that supports designers in the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region. Each year, Abwab commissions installations or pavilions dedicated to relevant global and regional contexts. Since 2015, more than 180 designers from countries such as Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates have participated in Abwab. For the 2024 edition, professionals were invited to propose projects on vernacular architecture. The project also explores how architecture using local materials and techniques can interact with new environments.

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Abwab 2018

As part of the Abwab program, the public will see more than 30 projects exploring ancient technologies, innovation, and materials. Dubai-based architecture and interior design firm Bone will present a pavilion by prefabricated earth blocks, created in collaboration with Fetdeterra, a Spanish company specializing in clay architecture. Japanese architecture firm Mitsubishi Jisho Design invites the public to experience a traditional teahouse made from 3D-printed waste sawdust. Multidisciplinary technology studio DEOND, founded by Ross Lovegrove and Ila Colombo, explores the notion of phytotherapy, with a “second skin” fabric infused with artificial intelligence that responds to the body’s mood. In addition to these, other installations come from various organic and recycled materials, including banana fiber, soy wax, henna, Himalayan salt, terracotta, and scrap metal.

Workshops, talks, and master classes

The Dubai Design Week workshop program is open to all disciplines of design. The program is run by a range of facilitators, including lecturers, designers, independent makers, and cultural organizations.

Dubai Design Week also offers a Marketplace on November 9 and 10. The marketplace, which offers handcrafted products, is located in the heart of Dubai Design District (d3).

The Dubai Design District (d3)

The Dubai Design District (d3) is a global creative ecosystem dedicated to design, fashion, architecture, and art. Located in the heart of Dubai, d3 is a commercial district that houses multi-brand stores, art galleries, and showrooms, as well as architectural and interior design studios. Various events, such as Dubai Design Week, Arab Fashion Week, and Sole DXB, are part of the Dubai Design District.

Some of the region’s most popular events take place in d3 and attract international artists and audiences for events such as Dubai Design Week, Arab Fashion Week, and Sole DXB. The district also regularly hosts a number of industry conferences, workshops, and educational programs for people of all ages.

Why Visit

Dubai Design Week is an opportunity to see Dubai up close in a somewhat out-of-the-ordinary guise, and to understand the exciting path taken by the UAE. Investment in design, in fact, carries out research in innovation projected into the future, alongside the rediscovery of local materials and traditions. Design therefore expresses the desire to rediscover one’s roots, with objects bearing a solid identity. Local products manage to create emotional bonds, which foreign design hardly builds. Between Public Projects and Downtown Dubai, and from this year also Editions, Dubai Design Week is thus a comprehensive platform, to follow the evolution of design in this area of the world.

Dubai Design Week, November 5-10, 2024

For professional and general public
Location: Dubai Design District (d3)
Size: over 500 exhibitors, 200,000 visitors
Visit website DubaiDesignWeek.ae for more info

Some images from Dubai Design Week 2021, 2022 and 2023

November 5, 2024