Events
Design events bring designers, brands, institutions and audiences together around new ideas, products and research. Design weeks, fairs, exhibitions, festivals and installations reflect the industry's priorities and emerging conversations across the international calendar. Coverage follows the projects, people and themes behind each edition, from major gatherings to independent initiatives, examining their contribution to contemporary design.
Currents brings Berlin’s design scene out of hiding
A new, community-built festival is proving that a city famous for art, techno, and startups also has a design identity worth noticing, even if starting from the ground…
DesignEuropa Awards 2026: 10 years of recognition and achievements
From a carbon-cutting shipping container to a wooden fitness tower, Philippe Starck and a rising Polish furniture designer, this year’s winners show what European design looks like today.
A room with a view of Vesuvius: EDIT Napoli turns 8
Around 80 exhibitors, a new format, two hands-on workshops, and a new itinerary – the eighth edition of Naples’ design fair is its most elaborate yet.
Ideas for Business Award 2026: building a bridge between design culture and the market
With a jury of designers and industry executives, and categories spanning furniture to tech, DesignWanted’s award is relaunched, staking its identity on bringing new products to the market.
How Bali’s community is building a working model for design: Jia CURATED 2026
Five editions in, Budiman Ong, Rudi Winata, and Yang Yang Hartono’s festival is treating nature as a collaborator, and the 18,000 people who showed up this August suggest…
Where is contemporary African design going?
The inaugural Africa International Design Awards crowned its first winners in 2026, showing the styles, directions, and perspectives the continent is taking on.
Jia CURATED 2026: a festival rooted in the Indonesian landscape
As Bali’s leading platform for craft, design and culture moves to a new beachfront setting, this year’s edition asks what it means to build, gather and create in…
The pulse of design: Maison&Objet unveils its new identity
Maison&Objet returns to the French capital with Pulse in Motion, a new theme celebrating creativity as a force for change. From emerging talents and South African designers to…
The world’s best architecture 2026: research over spectacle
What will the architecture of the future look like? The 2026 A+Awards suggest local, sustainable, and research-based; dramatic architecture seems to be over soon.
“Don’t call me collectible!”: exploring furniture as a research object
How Vestigia turned a Tuscan villa into a temporary ecosystem where design is an object of research which generstes cultural value and discourse.
Moving walls and street basket: the new face of sport by 2050+
Developed in the frame of Concéntrico Festival this past June, the installation of 2050+ is a reminder of how easy it is to regenerate spaces and how the…
Logroño as an urban laboratory: Concéntrico’s 12th edition
Across vineyards, bridges and historic gateways, 20 international practices explore what architecture becomes when it steps outside buildings and into the fabric of shared urban life. Here, our…