In 2025, the biggest design event in Bangkok is back. Bangkok Design Week returns for its 8th edition, continuing its mission to make creativity and design accessible to everyone—not just those in the creative industries. The festival serves as a catalyst for driving people, society, and the city forward in all dimensions.
The 8th edition, 2025, takes place from February 8 to 23.
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Taiwan Design Expo 2024 was back in Tainan for the fifth time, October 10 to 26, attracting more than 4.2 million visitors during the 16-day event. Themed “The Next 400” and celebrating the 400th anniversary of Tainan’s founding, the Expo showcased Tainan’s historical culture, circular design, future urban planning, and revitalized cultural monuments and shopping streets. This year’s Expo focused on Tainan’s profound cultural heritage and the innovative creativity that will lead its industries into the future.
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“Rely on the Market” invited visitors on a journey to uncover the lost history of the traditional market and welcome its bright future through cyberpunk-inspired art installations
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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People at Superdesign Show
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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Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025, hosts Gorizia Design Week (7-16 March 2025), as one of the first events to kick off the cultural program. Its goal is to raise awareness and appreciation of two cities united by a border – Nova Gorica and Gorizia.
The chosen theme, FIBER ART & TEXTILE DESIGN, highlights the symbolic power of fabric and weaving. Threads represent connection, unity between people, and the stitching together of urban areas. This theme reflects the deep bond between the two border cities.
The exhibition spreads across both cities. Venues include Go! Center, Auditorium della Cultura Friulana, Galleria Agorè, The Good Store, and Carinarnica. It presents design objects selected through an open call for designers under 40. Alongside them, works from young contemporary artists from the IoDeposito ETS creative hub will also be on display.
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Oloop Connections
The selected works offer a snapshot of today’s design scene. They reflect global trends within the local context. Key trends include:
•Participatory design, where creating objects becomes a tool for social connection and personal growth. The carpet-in-progress Connections by Slovenian group Oloop Design offers a perfect example.
•Conscious design, which focuses on responsible use of resources, from material sourcing to product disposal, while promoting care and longevity.
•Design and craftsmanship, which values manual skills and personal engagement.
The exhibition also showcases iconic design objects inspired by textiles. Highlights include the Falkland lamp by Bruno Munari, the Tuta coat hanger by Nendo, and the Crinoline armchair by Patricia Urquiola.
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Cuscino Pizzolongo
The artists contribute works using fibre art to explore contemporary issues. Themes range from African renaissances to local textile heritage, and from critiques of consumerism to reflections on care and repair. ‘Red threads’ weave through the exhibition, symbolizing connections across time and space, linking visitors to universal stories.
The event aims to highlight innovative uses and trends in fibre art. It promotes a culture that crosses national borders — and blurs the lines between art and design.
Knotted coat rack by Urska Sadar
A special collaboration with ISIS Galilei Fermi Pacassi of Gorizia created the exhibition graphics. ISIS Fermo Solari of Tolmezzo designed and produced the exhibition supports for the design section. The University of the Third Age (UTE) Paolo Naliato of Udine, together with Noi dell’Arte, involved senior citizens in an intergenerational creative project, exhibited at the Auditorium of Friulian Culture.
Gorizia Design Week is organised by the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Museum of Design. It is supported by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and the Municipality of Gorizia. The event also has the patronage of the Association of Italian Professional Interior Designers (AIPI) and Confapi FVG, with contributions from many partners, including Cumini Interior, Riccardo Rivoli Furniture Design Atelier, Modonutti, Fausped, and Pevere.
For professionals and general public
Size: 100 events
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Some images from Gorizia Design Week 2025
The Milan Fuorisalone, or Milan Design Week, as a whole, is a gigantic design project, which in 40 years redesigned Milan. Design has arrived, in the form of creative and resourceful entrepreneurs, intelligent real estate developers, designers and architects, and has regenerated territories, giving them a new life.
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The gala dinner by Salone del Mobile.Milano at La Scala Theater
This could only happen in Milan, a city with a vocation for research in industrial design. In fact, Milan is surrounded by Brianza, “the region with the highest creativity rate in the world,” industrial know-how. This could probably happen only in Italy, thanks to the “Italian factor.” The Fuorisalone is indeed the sum of many local factors, and territorial factors are inherently local.
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Another fundamental characteristic of this big design event is that it is a grass-rooted event, created by the initiative of many people. The people who organized the events, the protagonists of the various events, the audience who attended them. There are some questions that are difficult to answer. One of the most recurring is, “Who invented the Milan Design Week?” Everyone and no one. Actually, it was quite amusing to discover that there are at least a hundred inventors of the Fuorisalone. It is true that some of the protagonists of the first phase of the Fuorisalone played a particularly significant role, but, since it is not a codified event, with a beginning or an end, there are not people who invented it. There are many people who created the conditions for what happened to occur over the course of several years.
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The Milan Design Week 1989: exhibition at Lido, a public swimming pool facility
If we wanted to describe the event in a few words, we could say that over time it has turned into a formidable communication format and that for years it was the main tool for networking. A scientific form of party, designed with the utmost care: design expressed itself as a place for relationships between people, where the convivial moment was a key component of the event, just like the exhibition and the installations.
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It should not be forgotten that the Fuorisalone would have never existed without the Salone del Mobile. The trade fair, in the pavilions of Fieramilano — currently in Rho and, until 2005, at the old Fiera Campionaria premises — is the lifeblood that has always sustained the Fuorisalone, which, not by chance, for many years was not an independent event, but a series of “side events to the Salone del Mobile.” And the fact that since the mid-seventies the city of Milan has been attracting a cultured public interested in design is due to the Salone del Mobile and its ability to highlight the design culture element characterizing the industrial production of Italian furniture, already so well-known in the world as to be the subject of an exhibition at MoMA, in New York, in 1972, “Italy: the new domestic landscape,” curated by Emilio Ambasz.
This is also the reason why the main subject of the events has always been furniture and why design has been identified with furniture for a long time. It is only in the last 20 years that a definition of Milan Design Week with events not related to the furniture sector began to emerge, and in recent times there have been increasingly insistent questions about the future evolution of the Fuorisalone.
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2020 has doubtlessly been another important stage in the history of this week of global resonance and there are several unknown elements in its future.
Salone del Mobile.Milano is back, and with it, Milan Design Week. Many things have already changed, but one thing is still clear: that people still want to meet in person. Therefore, Milan Design Week is still alive and vital, even if undergoing a profound transformation.
In the galleries, images and photos from the different editions of Milano Design Week, divided by years and editions.
Why visit
One can visit Milan Design Week for many reasons. As a simple design enthusiast, it is a unique opportunity to meet up close with the world’s best-known designers, who pass through Milan during this week.
Tip: get a comprehensive guide, such as Interni’s Fuorisalone Guide or DDN’s Fuorisalone Guide, or patiently browse Fuorisalone.it, looking for events that may interest you.
Although the events are all free admission, many require registration. However, be prepared for long lines, especially for the most popular events.
In addition to design and designers, Milan Design Week is an opportunity to see many secret corners of the city. Noble palaces, secret courtyards, and showrooms you don’t usually enter are among the places open to everyone during Milan Design Week.
The events are open to professional and general public
Size: about 1,000 events, more than 400,000 visitors
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