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The Design Week Guide Map of Milan Design Week

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The Design Week Guide Milan Map: features

Given the sheer number of events during Milan Design Week – over 1,000 across the city – selecting what to visit and optimizing travel between districts has become increasingly complex.

The Design Week Guide Milan Map, a free, interactive map built directly on Google Maps, addresses this challenge 

Looking for the map? Open the Milan Design Week map 2026 here

Key features

1 – Curated selection of events
Unlike open listings, the Milan Trail features a carefully curated selection of events. The 2026 edition includes 150 selected events, chosen for relevance, quality, and diversity

The target for 2027 is 200, based on real interest and relevance

Milan Design WeekMap 2026

2 – Native Google Maps integration

The guide is fully integrated into Google Maps, eliminating the need for additional apps or platforms. Consultation is free of charge, and very easy: all the smartphones feature Google Maps

Users can:

• View event locations directly on the map
• Calculate routes between events in real time
• Navigate easily between districts

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3 – Detailed event listings

Each featured event includes:

• A clear description
• One picture
• Exact location
• Dates and opening hours
• A direct link to a dedicated blog post with extended content
• A link to registration website, if requested and needed
• A link to the exhibitor website

Milan Design Week Map Event Detail

4 – Free and easy sharing and accessibility

Exhibitors can share a direct link to their event listing with guests, enabling immediate access on smartphones. The map can be shared with a single link, making it an efficient communication tool during the week

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5 – Proven reach and visibility

• The 2025 debut edition was used over 50,000 times
• The Milan Design Week Map 2025 has recorded over 250,000 views 
• The 2026 edition was used over 90,000 times
• Designweekguide.com consistently ranks in the top 5 Google search results for Milan Design Week-related queries

Milan Design Week Map 2025

Benefits for Exhibitors

Being included in The Design Week Guide Milan Trail offers high visibility during one of the most competitive weeks in the global design calendar.

The standard listing fee covers:

• Placement on the Google Maps Trail
• A dedicated website post linked from the map
• One Instagram post
• One Facebook post during Milan Design Week

This integrated approach ensures consistent exposure across mapping, editorial content, and social media, making it one of the most effective tools for reaching a targeted international audience during Milan Design Week

Key takeaways

The Design Week Guide Milan Map transforms the overwhelming complexity of Milan Design Week into a navigable, curated experience. By combining editorial selection with the functionality of Google Maps, it serves both visitor – who need clarity and efficiency – and exhibitors – who seek visibility and meaningful engagement. In an event ecosystem defined by scale and saturation, the Map-Trail stands out as a practical, trusted, and strategically positioned guide to Milan Design Week.

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Milan Design Events 2027

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The Milan Design Week 2027 for exhibitors and visitors

People often ask me about Design Week Milan. Both visitors and would-be exhibitors. So, I thought I would write this short guide explaining the essential info about the Milan Design Week 2027 and the Milan Design Events. 

Milan Design Week and Events 2027 Essentials

Dates: April, 11-18, 2027
Tickets: Free for events in town, paid admission to the Salone del Mobile (Milan Furniture Fair, April 13-18)

Size: 10 Districts, over 1000 events

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Exhibition by Jacopo Foggini at Milan Design Week 1999. Photo Andreas Otero, courtesy Jacopo Foggini

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This Month in Design: October 2026

October 2026 brings a full calendar of design events across Europe, Asia and the Americas. In Cologne, ORGATEC and IDD Cologne focus on the future of work and interiors, while Design Miami Paris turns the spotlight on collectible design and the meeting point between art and furniture. In Naples, EDIT Napoli brings together independent and editorial design in the city’s historic spaces, and in Prague, Designblok opens up the Czech design scene to an international audience. Further afield, Mumbai hosts India Design ID, the country’s leading design week, and Design Week Mexico wraps up the month in Mexico City, setting local talent alongside international names. This guide lists the key October design events, with dates, venues and highlights to help plan ahead.

Amman Design Week, October 2-17, 2026

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. Read more →

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Design Week Mexico 2026, October 5-11

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. Read more →

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Design House, Design Week Mexico 2025

DesignBlok: Prague Design Festival, October 7-11, 2026

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. Read more →

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DesignBlok 2023, Superstudio. Photo Ondrej Holub, courtesy DesignBlok

EDIT Napoli, October 9-11, 2026

The 8th edition 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. Read more →

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Decorex, October 11-14, 2026, London

Decorex 2026 opens its doors in October, and for anyone working in high-end interiors it’s one of the key dates of the autumn calendar. Now in its 48th edition, the show runs from 11 to 14 October at Olympia London. It brings together brands, makers and designers from across the luxury interiors field. Read more →

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Decorex, Olympia London

Barcelona Design Week 2026, 14-25, October, 2026

From 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. Read more →

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Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, October 17-25, 2026

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. Read more →

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Emma Van Der Lain and Anab Jain

Design Miami.Paris, October 20-25, 2026

Design Miami is back in Paris for its fourth year, and it’s keeping its home at L’Hôtel de Maisons, an 18th-century residence in the 7th arrondissement. The fair runs from October 20 to 25, 2026, right alongside Art Basel Paris. Read more →

Jean Prouvé, Maison D émontable 6X6, 1944. Galerie Patrick Seguin at Design Miami Paris 2026. Photo courtesy of Galerie Patrick Seguin

Design ID Mumbai, October 9-11, 2026

India Design ID returns to Mumbai for its third edition, from 9 to 11 October 2026 at Jio World Garden, BKC. Launched in 2013 as India’s first design fair, it has grown into the country’s leading design week. This year’s theme, The Deep Fathom, looks beyond the finished object to the materials, processes and stories behind it. Over 120 Indian and international brands, from Poliform to Nilaya and No-Mad, fill the exhibition floor, alongside a section for collectible design. The symposium brings in names such as Shigeru Ban, Rahul Kadri and Matteo Cibic, while Undercurrents, curated by fair director Misha Bains, sets out the work of six experimental studios. 

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idd cologne, October 27-31, 2026

After its debut in 2025, idd cologne, short for interior design days cologne, comes back from 27 to 31 October 2026. The event keeps its urban-only concept, with no trade fair halls of its own, and spreads residential interior design across showrooms, stores and design venues around the city. This year, it gains a stronger centre: Design Post Köln, which becomes the heart of the whole programme.

idd cologne takes place alongside ORGATEC 2026, the trade fair for workspace and contract solutions, running from 27 to 30 October. Together they make up Cologne’s interiors week, and for the first time they share a venue. Read more →

idd cologne 2026, interior design days cologne at Design Post Köln during Cologne interiors week]

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ORGATEC, October 27-30, 2026

ORGATEC 2026, the leading international trade fair for workspace and contract solutions, opens in Cologne from 27 to 30 October 2026. This edition comes back with a tighter format built around business, a second venue in the city at Design Post Köln, and a special exhibition on the architectural thinking of Charles and Ray Eames. It also runs side by side with idd cologne, turning the last week of October into a full Cologne interiors week. Read more 

 

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This Month in Design: September 2026

September opens one of the busiest stretches on the international design calendar, with dozens of fairs, festivals and platforms running at once across the world. This is not the full list. It’s a reasoned selection: ten events picked for what they signal about where design is heading, from a furniture fair in Shanghai to a festival opening the autumn season in the Baltics. Here’s what’s on, where, and why it made the cut.

CIFF Shanghai 2026

5–11 September 2026 · Shanghai, China

Asia’s leading furniture and interior design fair returns to Shanghai for another edition. Inside, The Italian Lounge marks its fourth year at the fair, a platform built to bring Italian design and lifestyle to the Chinese market with a dedicated space for hospitality, networking and business. Read more →

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Paris Design Week 2026

10–19 September 2026 · Paris, France

Paris Design Week reaches its 16th edition, spreading across Le Marais, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Opéra and Bastille. Galleries, showrooms, schools and heritage venues open their doors for the occasion, and this year’s programme brings in new guest countries and fresh addresses to an already sprawling map. Read more →

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Paris Design Week Factory 2025. Photo Greg Sevaz, courtesy Paris Design Week

Maison&Objet September 2026

10–14 September 2026 · Paris, France

Maison&Objet’s September edition steps out under a new name: Pulse. Built around the theme Pulse in Motion, developed with trend agency NellyRodi and fronted by ambassador studio Masquespacio, the fair spans seven sectors, from décor and fine craft to fragrance and fashion. The rebrand marks a split identity for the fair going forward: January stays Maison&Objet Premier, dedicated to craftsmanship and established names, while September becomes the more experimental, sustainability-driven chapter. Read more →

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Masquespacio installation at Maison & Objet 2026

London Design Festival 2026

12–20 September 2026 · London, UK

The 24th edition of London Design Festival welcomes Soho as its newest district, joining Bankside, Brompton, Chelsea, Mayfair and the debuting Shoreditch Design Week. The main hub stays at the V&A South Kensington, which this year also hosts a new edition of Material Matters and the Global Design Forum. Read more →

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Framing LDF 2026, Courtesy Pentagram & London Design Festival

Global Design Forum at the V&A — Worlds of Motion

12–14 September 2026 · London, UK

Part of London Design Festival, the V&A’s talks programme returns to South Kensington with a line-up of speakers exploring movement as a lens on contemporary design, from materials and making to the wider built environment. Read more →

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The Shape of colors

Lake Como Design Festival 2026

12–20 September 2026 · Lake Como, Italy

Now in its eighth edition, Lake Como Design Festival takes Border as its guiding theme, an invitation to think about geographical and creative limits and how design can work across them. Installations and events unfold across the towns and villas along the lake. Read more →

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Shoreditch Design Week 2026

15–20 September 2026 · London, UK

London Design Festival’s newest district launches its first edition, adding Shoreditch to a map that already spans Bankside, Brompton, Chelsea and Mayfair, with galleries, studios and independent spaces opening across the neighbourhood. Read more →

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Kachette on Old Street

Material Matters London 2026

15–17 September 2026 · London, UK

Held within Shoreditch Design Week, this exhibition puts materials and innovation at the centre of the conversation, bringing together designers, manufacturers and researchers working on new processes, finishes and sustainable alternatives for the industry. Read more →

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Design Democracy 2026

18–20 September 2026 · Hyderabad, India

India’s most celebrated design festival returns for its fourth edition at the HITEX Exhibition Centre, bringing together more than 200 brands, 150 speakers and 250 architects and designers, with 30,000 visitors expected. Alongside a curated showcase spanning furniture, lighting and collectible design, the programme includes four themed exhibitions, talks, immersive installations and public art across the venue. Read more on designdemocracy.in →

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Tallinn Design Festival 2026

28 September – 4 October 2026 · Tallinn, Estonia

Known locally as Disainiöö, the festival is the leading design event in the Baltic region, closing out September and opening the autumn season with exhibitions, talks and open studios across the Estonian capital. Read more →

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Micro-Living Design at Genova Design Week 2026

Ten magenta shipping containers lined up along Calata Mandraccio, in the heart of Genoa’s Porto Antico, became the unexpected protagonists of Genova Design Week 2026. Container 03, an experimental format, drew thousands of visitors throughout the week and confirmed itself as one of the main attractions at Genova Design Week 2026.

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The urban “Piazza” at Porto Antico, surrounded by Containers

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Milan Design Week & Salone del Mobile 2025: data & more

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The Salone del Mobile in Milan presented the second edition of its Report on Milan Design Week. The research was carried out by the Salone in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano. The University also deployed, among other resources, field observation, thanks to the involvement of 100 students from the Politecnico di Milano’s Schools of Design and Architecture.
A large section is of course dedicated to the Salone del Mobile.Milano, but the research also devotes considerable space to side events, which make the biggest Design Show in the world.

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The impact of Milan Design Week on the city of Milan

The Report is a very thorough piece of work, which allows for an assessment of the actual impact of Milan Design Week on the city, analyzing traffic flows, events, and cultural production. It provides interesting insights for a wide range of activities. The report provides a fairly accurate picture of how many visitors arrive in Milan, how they travel to the Fair, and how they get around the city. It also provides information on the age and interests of Milan Design Week tourists.

Milan Design Week 2025 events

The Politecnico survey provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the distribution of events. The results offer a series of insights that can be very useful for anyone planning to organize an event at the Fuorisalone in Milan.
According to the report, in 2025, the City of Milan declared a number of 1,667 Fuorisalone events (the number varies depending on who conducted the census; this is the total number from the City of Milan’s program). The events listed on the Fuorisalone.it website, on the other hand, numbered 1,067.
Compared to 2024, this represents an increase of 25.7%; to get an idea of the increase over the years, the events declared by the Municipality of Milan in 2019 were 986, 650 in 2021, 825 in 2022, 1,200 in 2023, and 1,326 in 2024.

The areas with the highest density of events

Thanks to an analysis carried out using Fastweb-Vodafone data (mobile network operators), the Salone Report provides an overview of traffic flows to the design districts, as well as the presence of Italians and foreigners.
In 2025, the Brera Design District (257 events) recorded a 51.9% increase in foot traffic. The Porta Genova area – the gateway to the Via Tortona area – grew by 41.3%, while Parco Sempione – the Triennale area – recorded a +25.4% increase.

In the Sarpi area, home to the ADI Design Museum and Fabbrica del Vapore, foot traffic increased by 12.2%, while Corso Magenta and Via San Vittore – in the 5VIE district – saw an increase of 9.6%. (5VIE is the name of an intersection of five narrow streets between Piazza Cordusio and Corso Magenta, so part of the traffic in the Duomo area is also involved. Although not directly involved in Milan Design Week, the Duomo area recorded an increase of 19.3%.)

The areas Porta Garibaldi – Porta Nuova (+16.2%), Buenos Aires – Porta Venezia – Porta Monforte (+7.9%), and Stazione Centrale – Ponte Seveso (+7.4%) host Milan Design Week events, but they are also areas of daily commuting, so traffic here is only amplified, not overloaded.

The further out you go towards the suburbs, the less traffic increases. Villapizzone – Cagnola – Bovisasca (Certosa District) saw an increase of 2.3%; Stadera – Chiesa Rossa – Quartiere Torretta – Conca Fallata (Stadera Design District_SDD recorded an increase of 2.8%.

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The detailed map

The catalyst events

There was a very significant increase in traffic flows in some areas of the Milan City Council’s events program, which considers journeys within a 500-meter radius of the event. The areas are Interni-Università degli Studi, DDDesign (Durini Design District), Mosca Partners – Design Variations (Palazzo Litta), Alcova (Varedo), as well as the areas of Tortona and 5VIE; here, 323 events in total. The average growth in traffic flows varied between +20% and +50%, with peaks of 49.2% for the Interni event and +48% for DDDesign (Durini Design District).

Analysis of foreign SIM cards shows that the foreign presence at Alcova events is overwhelmingly in the majority.
The data also allows us to establish the urban and social nature of Milan Design Week (not just the Salone del Mobile, therefore). The highest volume of users is concentrated between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m., but the 8 p.m. to midnight slot still accounts for a quarter of all journeys.

Milan Design Districts: the co-visits during Milan Design Week 

The analysis of co-visits is also interesting. The graphs represent the co-visit flows between the Design Week Districts in the city during the Salone del Mobile 2025, highlighting some relevant co-visit patterns, showing the total number of visitors and the percentage breakdown between Italian and foreign visitors. The co-visit maps offer a new insight into the audience’s behavior and mobility, highlighting the spontaneous connections between different districts and events. The values represent cross-flows resulting from successive movements within the same 48-hour period.

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Districts and events co-visits

The event content distribution

The Report also examined event content in depth, analyzing 781 events in detail. This observation allowed us to determine how many industrial product launches, small-scale productions, interior design projects, new materials, interactive installations and experiences, publishing projects, design technologies, and other kinds of projects there were. Even more interestingly, the research allowed to set the distribution of contents for each area of interest. (see image)

The research carried out by Salone del Mobile with the Milan Polytechnic therefore shows how close the relationship between the Fair, Fuorisalone, and the city of Milan is. In fact, in my book on the History of Fuorisalone, I tried to highlight how Fuorisalone changed as Milan changed. Now it would be time to take a next step, a study of the relationship between residents and the many events, to see how the city has changed with the development of Milan Design Week. All topics of great interest.

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The event content distribution

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Design for equality: Tallinn Design Festival

An annual celebration of creativity and innovation: this is the Tallinn Design Festival, which hosted the 20th edition from September 29 to October 5, 2025. The program was notably rich, as usual, including exhibitions, design markets, and conferences, like most city design festivals. In fact, the integration between events and town is a festival feature. The headquarters is in an old industrial district undergoing regeneration, a really fascinating location. Moreover, many showrooms display their latest products. This way, Tallinn experiences the Design Festival as a big town festival, inviting visitors to explore even the most out-of-the-way areas.
The theme of the 2025 Festival was “Design for All”: how design can help equality.

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International Design Conference at Tallinn Design Festival 2025

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Be the project: Milan Design Week 2026

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“Be the project” is the theme selected for Fuorisalone 2026, a theme expressing two meanings. On the one hand, people as active agents of change, with visions, desires and responsibilities; on the other, the project, design as a constantly evolving process that shapes and redesigns relationships between people, objects and environments.

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Alcova at Milan Design Week 2026

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Feel the woods at Milan Design Week 2025

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At Milan Design Week 2025, Fiemme Tremila offered an immersive experience. There are no new products on display. Instead, Fiemme Tremila invites visitors to reconnect with wood. Not just to see it – but to feel it. To sense it as a living, breathing material.

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Michelangelo Foundation: Homo Faber

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The Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship is thrilled to present a special showcase celebrating the creative achievements of the second edition of the Homo Faber Fellowship. Held at House of Switzerland Milano during Milan Design Week 2025, the exhibition Today’s Masters Meet Tomorrow’s Talents highlights the collaborative works crafted over six months. Twenty-three duos – each comprising a master artisan and an emerging talent, or ‘fellow’- participated in the Foundation’s signature education programme. This final collection embodies the bright future of craftsmanship, demonstrating the power of collaboration and skill transmission to foster change, connection, and beauty.

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Milan Design Week 2025 – Map & agenda

This article covers the 2025 edition. For Milan Design Week 2027, see our complete guide

Milan Design Week 2025 is back in Milan from April 6 to 13. As usual, Milan Design Week promises to be full of events, exhibitions, and installations, and the global design community will meet in Milan for a week. 

Theme: Mondi Connessi

Mondi Connessi (Connected Worlds) is the theme of Fuorisalone 2025, a concept that promotes participatory design while celebrating the art of engagement through design and artificial intelligence.

This theme invites reflection on the crucial role of design in connecting different dimensions of our lives—bridging the natural environment with advanced technologies, cultural traditions with future innovations. It sparks meaningful discussions among professionals, envisioning significant contexts that can be summarized as follows:

  • New Dialogue Between Physical and Digital
  • Cultural Connections and Sustainability
  • Public Spaces and Inclusivity
  • Urban Mobility and Innovation

Mondi Connessi is a vision of the present that anticipates the future, where design and artificial intelligence collaborate to create a more interactive, immersive, and, above all, connected world. Milan Design Week 2025 will serve as a true laboratory of ideas, shaping the future of design—just as it always has.

The Design Week Guide Trail: our map for Milan Design Week 2025

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Milan Design Week connects Milan and Turin

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MiTo Design Connections is a unique initiative aimed at strengthening the creative and cultural link between the cities of Turin and Milan. With the goal of enhancing the visitor and exhibitor experience for the 2025 edition of Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone, MiTo Design Connections offers a complete hospitality and accommodation service. This way, Milan Design Week connects Milan and Turin, making it easier than ever to explore both cities during one of the world’s most important design events.

More than just a convenient place to stay, Turin — only 40 minutes from Milan by train — becomes a vibrant destination in its own right, offering visitors an unforgettable blend of design, art, culture, and gastronomy. Through a curated selection of exclusive events, exhibitions, and cultural experiences, guests are invited to discover the city’s creative soul while enjoying moments of relaxation and inspiration.
From premium hotel packages to seamless train services, and from partnerships with iconic cultural destinations to curated design experiences, MiTo Design Connections transforms Turin into a dynamic extension of Milan Design Week — the perfect setting for combining professional networking with authentic cultural exploration.

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The Circolo del Design in Turin

Celebrate Design in Turin from April 4 to 20, 2025

For over two weeks, from April 4 to 20, 2025, Turin joins Milan in celebrating design, hosting a rich program of events, exhibitions, and immersive experiences across the city. From pop-up installations to design talks, culinary experiences, and art-meets-design happenings, the city becomes a vibrant stage for creativity and innovation.

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The Nuvola by Lavazza

AMTS – Auto Moto Turin Show

Following the overwhelming success of its debut edition, AMTS – Auto Moto Turin Show is back, running from April 4 to 6, 2025, at Lingotto Fiere and Oval. More than just an exhibition, AMTS has established itself as a must-attend event for car and motorcycle enthusiasts, design lovers, and technology fans alike.
Organised by GL events Italia, AMTS once again hosts Italy’s largest indoor tuning event in collaboration with ETT – Expo Tuning Torino, showcasing some of the most spectacular customized vehicles in the country. Outside the halls, the excitement continues with adrenaline-fueled performances, including acrobatic stunt shows and high-energy drifting demonstrations.
New for 2025, visitors will also have the extraordinary opportunity to experience the thrill of motorsport firsthand with Taxi Drift rides, where professional drivers take you on a heart-pounding journey inside a real race car.

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Digital Days in Turin

Step into a boundary-breaking digital ecosystem where ideas, people, and technologies flow seamlessly together, blurring the lines between the physical and virtual worlds, and between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
Digital Days is a celebration of innovation in constant motion, where connections expand, collaborations form, and new opportunities take shape. With a diverse program of talks, workshops, interactive installations, and live demos, Digital Days invites visitors to experience the future of creativity and technology, where everything — and everyone — is in flux.

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DW! São Paulo Design Week: interview with Lauro Andrade, founder

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On the occasion of DW! São Paulo Design Week 2025, we interviewed Lauro Andrade, founder of DW! São Paulo Design Week. He has a managerial background with an MBA, and he previously served as executive director at companies such as Brahma, Sebrae, Pizza Hut, and Canguru Embalagens (1993 to 2003). He managed Latin America’s largest coatings, architecture, and decoration B2B fair, Expo Revestir, as well as the International Architecture and Construction Forum, for 14 years (2003 to 2017). At the same time, he organized over 30 events in 12 countries across four continents (2006 to 2017). Then, he founded Summit Promo (2003), where he designed and created DW! São Paulo Design Week (2012) and High Design Home and Office Expo (2016) — an events company he still runs today. We spoke with him about the potential of design weeks as engines to foster the growth of creative activities.

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Lauro Andrade

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The magic of glass from Italy: Venice Design Week

The 16th edition of Venice Design Week took place in Venice, October 11 to 2024, with a focus on Murano glass, from Venice, as usual. Since 2010, every year in autumn, Venice has become the home of design for a week.
The 2024 edition saw the participation of 84 designers and 25 artisans, an increase over the previous edition.
The physical audience reached 6,647 people. The official Venice Design Week website recorded 6,691 active users during the design week, an increase from the 5,408 unique users in 2023. Engagement on Instagram also marked a 40 percent growth over last year, confirming the public’s growing interest in social media.

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Julie Conway at Simone Cenedese

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Passagen Cologne 2025: the first time without imm cologne

In 2025, imm cologne is taking a break, leaving many to wonder how this will impact Passagen, Cologne’s celebrated design festival. Passagen 2025 should take place in Cologne from January 10 to 16, 2025, anyway. Festival founder Sabine Voggenreiter addressed these concerns in a recent interview with the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. “The cancellation of the trade fair will, of course, affect us,” Voggenreiter acknowledged, “especially after the challenging years we faced during the COVID pandemic. However, we’ve since recovered well.”

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Passagen 2024

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Milan Design Week 2025

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This article covers the 2025 edition. For Milan Design Week 2027, see our complete guide

Connected Worlds is the theme of the Fuorisalone, an essential part of Milan Design Week 2025, which will take place from 7 to 13 April 2025. Like every year, in conjunction with the Salone del Mobile.Milano, 8-13 April 2025, Milan will host the Fuorisalone, which, together with the Salone, creates the Milan Design Week.

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Lasvit at Milan Design Week 2024

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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

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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

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Maison & Objet 2024: what to expect

Maison&Objet 2024 celebrates 30 years of French inspiration in furniture, design and lifestyle. To celebrate this anniversary, the show will take visitors on a journey into an enchanted future, where technology and nature coexist in harmony. The underlying theme of Maison&Objet 2024 is TECH EDEN: the fair, Maison & Objet in the City, and the virtual platform M.O.M. will develop around this thread.

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Outonomy – installation by Mathieu Lehanneur

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Design Post Cologne 2024

Design Post, in Cologne, is not quite an event. In fact, it is a permanent showroom, which comes alive at certain, particularly representative trade fairs. Design Post is located at Deutz-Mülheimer-Strasse 22a in Cologne, so exactly opposite the halls of Koelnmesse. This is a forward-looking location that allows companies to have a permanent showroom, and attract trade fair visitors to the adjacent halls. In addition, Design Post, carved out of a Post Office building, is a particularly striking and attractive location with post-industrial architecture.

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The Design Post building in Cologne. Photo: Lucas Hardonk, courtesy Design Post

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Amman Design Week 2026: Accumulations Marks the Comeback

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.

Amman Design Week, October 2-17, 2026

Size: over 220 designers, more than 60 spaces
Locations: Various venues across five districts: Ras El Ain, Jabal Al Lweibdeh, Jabal Amma, Iraq Al Amir, Aqaba
Tickets: Free admission, registration required for some specific events
Opening 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 
More info at Amman Design Week 2026  website

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The Hangar Exhibition, 2019. Photo: Edmund Sumner, courtesy Amman Design Week

A Look Back at Amman Design Week

Her 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.

Those 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.

What 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.

The 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.

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The Hangar Exhibition, 2016

Accumulations: The Theme of Amman Design Week 2026

Design 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.

In 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.

The 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.

For those working in architecture and interiors, this is a theme about process and materials rather than polished finished objects.

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The Crafts District, Amman Design Week 2019

Fifty Venues Across Amman and Jordan

Amman 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.

Among 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.

Over 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.

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The Student Exhibition, 2019. Photo Edward Summer, courtesy Amman Design Week

Workshops Ahead of Amman Design Week 2026

Much 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.

Tracing 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.

A Strong Program for Young Designers

The 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.

For 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.

Why visit

Amman 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. 

Amman Design Week, October 2-17, 2026

Size: over 220 designers, more than 60 spaces
Locations: Various venues across five districts: Ras El Ain, Jabal Al Lweibdeh, Jabal Amma, Iraq Al Amir, Aqaba
Tickets: Free admission, registration required for some specific events
Opening 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 
More info on Amman Design Week 2026  website

Some images from the past editions

 

 

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Design Week Mexico 2026: the program of Mexico City’s design week

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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.

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Design House, Design Week Mexico 2025

Since 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.

Chile, guest country of Design Week Mexico 2026

Chile’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.

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Visión y Tradición at the Museo Nacional de Antropología

The 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.

A 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.

Design 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.

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Vision & Tradition, Design Week Mexico 2025

Inmersiones Creativas México-Francia at Casa Ortega

Casa 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.

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Pabellon Audi, Design Week Mexico 2025

Design House 2026

Design 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.

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Design House, Design Week Mexico 2025

Inédito at Espacio CDMX

Inédito 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.

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Inedito, Design Week Mexico 2025

PRINT, graphic design and illustration

The 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.

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PRINT, Design Week Mexico 2025

Tours de Diseño, the parallel agenda

From 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.

Why visit

Design 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.

Design Week Mexico 2026: key dates

Event

Venue

Dates

Entry fee

Inmersiones Creativas

Casa Ortega

6-25 October (opening 5 October)

Free until 11 October, then 50 MXN

Visión y Tradición

Museo Nacional de Antropología

8 October-1 November (opening 7 Oct)

Free

PRINT

G.56 Hub Creativo

8-31 October (opening 7 October)

Free

Design House +
Dealers de Diseño

Paseo de las Palmas 1305

9 October-1 November

250-300 MXN

Inédito

Espacio CDMX

10 October 2026-10 January 2027 (opening 9 October)

Free
       

Tours de Diseño

Across the city

1 October-1 November

Free

Size: more than 200 events, over 100 activities; 200,000+ visitors
Many events are free, other require an entry fee
Opening hours: October 5 – 11, 2026, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Diseño Contenido (Lincoln Park): October 10 and 11, from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Main Exhibitions (Design House, Vision & Tradition, Inédito, etc.):
Run on individual schedules through October and November 2026
Visit Designmexico.com website for info 

 

 

 

 

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EDIT Napoli 2026: Where Design Shapes

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. 

EDIT Napoli Essentials
October 9-11, 2026

For professionals and general public
Location: La Santissima, Vico Trinità delle Monache, 1, Naples
Opening hours: h. 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Size: 80 exhibitors, over 20,000 visitors
Visit website EditNapoli.com for more info

Tickets: €20 full price, €10 reduced (under 25), free for under 14
Tickets are available online at editnapoli.com/visit

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EDIT Napoli 2025 at La Santissima

Where Design Shapes: the idea behind the 2026 campaign

This 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.

That 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.

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EDIT Napoli 2026 La Santissima

Camera con Vista: a new way to show design

One 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.

EDIT Napoli: the exhibitors and special projects at La Santissima

Several special projects take shape at La Santissima this year, built together with partners who bring their own perspective to the fair.

Lancia 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.

French 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.

Among 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.

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EDIT Napoli 2025 at La Santissima

EDIT Napoli looks outward

The 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.

Special 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.

Some previews from EDIT Napoli 2026

 

 

EDIT CULT: design meets the city’s heritage

Alongside 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.

This year’s CULT program 

“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)

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EDIT Napoli Crochet Coral Reef. Photo Nikolaj Kazakov Karlsruhe, courtesy EDIT Napoli

“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)

“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)

“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)

 

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Controtempo exhibition, curated by Domitilla Dardi: works by Massimo Lunardon. On this image, design by Antonio Aricò

Other Special Exhibitions

“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)

“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)

 

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Light on Spain, Lucas Munoz, photo Francesco Stelitano, courtesy EDIT Napoli

The jury and the awards

The 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.

A new workshop program at EDIT Napoli 2026

For 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.

“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.

“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.

Why visit 

EDIT 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.

EDIT Napoli Essentials
October 9-11, 2026

For professionals and general public
Location: La Santissima, Vico Trinità delle Monache, 1, Naples
Opening hours: h. 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Size: 80 exhibitors, over 20,000 visitors
Visit website EditNapoli.com for more info

Tickets: €20 full price, €10 reduced (under 25), free for under 14
Tickets are available online at editnapoli.com/visit

Some images from EDIT Napoli 2025

 

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Barcelona Design Week 2026: PRO-TEST and the Value of the Prototype

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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.

From 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.

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Kave, main sponsor of Barcelona Design Week 2026

From Project to Prototype

PRO-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.

A 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.

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PRO-TEST: Experimenting to Build Alternatives

The 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.

Design 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.

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Service Design Disrupted, main sponsor at Barcelona Design Week 2026

A Design Week Spread Across the City

Over 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.

The 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.

Barcelona as a Lab for New Futures

This 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.

Barcelona 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.

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WMF, main sponsor at Barcelona Design Week 2026

Who Is Behind Barcelona Design Week

Set 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.

Its 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.

The 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.

Why visit

Barcelona 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.

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Barcelona Design Week 2026, 14-25, October, 2026

Size: over 67,000 visitors, more than 130 activities
Locations: different venues
Admission: free
Opening hours: each event sets its own opening hours
For info: Barcelonadesignweek.com website

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Dutch Design Week 2026: R.A.W. Takes Design Back to Its Roots in Eindhoven

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.

For 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.

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Dutch Design Week 2025. Photo Max Kneefel, courtesy Dutch Design Week

R.A.W.: the DDW 2026 theme explained

The 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.

Eindhoven 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.

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Sonic Maze, Grand Project Dutch Design Week 2025. Photo Max Kneefel, courtesy Dutch Design Week

Dutch Design Week 2026 Beacons: Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain

Each 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.

Emma 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.

Anab 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.

 

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Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain

Eight large-scale installations across Eindhoven

Working 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.

In the city centre

  • BLAUPAUSE, 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.
  • Huis, 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.
  • FIELD, Isabel + Helen (Stadhuisplein): wind-powered turbines on wheels that visitors can move around, creating patterns that keep changing.
  • Consultation 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.
  • Waiting 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.
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Umbra Pavilion, Grand Project at Dutch Design Week 2025

In Strijp-S

  • Blind 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.
  • Colonic 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.
  • Electric 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.

Polestar Design Rides and We Harvest Wind

DDW 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.

Why visit

For 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.
Built 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.
Eight large-scale installations turn Eindhoven’s city centre and Strijp-S into a free open-air design route.
The Beacons, Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain, bring biodesign and speculative futures into a public debate.
Works by Atelier Van Lieshout, Thijs Biersteker and young designers take on health, inclusion and energy.
Polestar Design Rides make it easy to move around the festival venues from 17 to 25 October.

Dutch Design Week dates and more
October 17-25, 2026

  • Location: Eindhoven, with main hubs in the city centre and Strijp-S
  • Size: 350,000+ visitors, 2,500+ designers
  • Theme: R.A.W. (Rebel Authentic Worth)
  • Beacons: Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain (Superflux)
  • Public installations: eight, free to visit

Dutch Design Week (DDW) locations are generally open daily from 11 am to 6 pm, though hours can vary slightly by specific venue or exhibition
Paid admission: discover more on Dutch Design Week website DDW.nl

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