shanghai | News
In 2010, Shanghai joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as “City of Design”. The city of Shanghai in early winter is full of vitality of…
Saint-Etienne | Call
In 2017, during the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 10th edition, the contest “a Streetcar design for design” students from all over France was organized. Given the success…
Kortrijk | News
Kortrijk will receive € 100,000 from the Flemish government for cooperation with the Lithuanian city of Kaunas in the run-up to Kaunas European Capital of…
Recently, Belgium has a new federal government. Mr Vincent Van Quickenborne, who was mayor of Kortrijk since 2013, will become vice-First Minister and Minister of…
Graz | News
On 24 October 2017, representatives of the international community of designers, architects, planners and landscape architects signed the Montreal Design Declaration. The Declaration proclaims the…
04 Feb 2021 | Singapore | Event
The 2nd edition of the Design Education Summit is a one-day virtual Summit to be held on 4 February 2021, organised by the DesignSingapore Council (Dsg) in partnership…
17 Nov 2020 - 20 Feb 2021 | Graz | Event
Styrian Products assembles outstanding products with high standards of design from Styrian companies in a unique collection. The items were chosen according to three main…
Edited by: Sigrid Bürstmayr and Karl Stocker With contributions of: Paul Draus, Breathe Earth Collective, Burcin Cem Arabacıoğlu, Ayşen Ciravoğlu, Ciğdem Polatoğlu, Paulina Cornejo Moreno Valle and…
CIS | News
Help the UNESCO Design Cities Network to create a database of new projects happening in your cities in response to COVID-19 that support design innovation…
28 Apr - 22 Aug 2021 | Saint-Etienne | Event
Driven by the city of Saint-Étienne, the only UNESCO Creative City of Design in France, and by Saint-Etienne Metropolitan Government, the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne,…
08 May - 06 Jun 2021 | Graz | Event
Design Month Graz gives insights into various creative disciplines and points of contact to the most diverse designers. Events such as exhibitions, workshops or lectures…
21 - 25 Oct 2021 | Kortrijk | Event
Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, its impact on the international design world and the fair and events sector, and the challenging organisation…
19 - 26 Nov 2020 | Bilbao | Event
Bilbao Bizkaia Design Week (BBDW) is an event organized by the Bilbao Bizkaia Design Council (BiDC), an initiative of Bilbao City Council and the Biscay…
18 Nov 2020 | Singapore | Event
SDD Singapore x SDD Berlin – Lunch in Berlin, Drinks in Singapore This event is an experiment, a prototype, to bring design communities of two thriving cities,…
15 Oct - 15 Nov 2020 | Kortrijk | Event
KORTRTIJK PRESENTS AN IMPRESSIVE CREATIVE AUTUMN PROGRAMME The fact that a pandemic brought down the Biennale INTERIEUR and the city programme was an impulse for…
12 Nov 2020 | Singapore | Event
About the Event What do we do as designers when things aren’t going so well? The events of 2020 have hit us all in different…
20 Oct - 07 Nov 2020 | Graz | Event
Local production, wood as a proven resource material and innovative manufacturing with a CNC milling robot are the focus points of the CNCentury exhibition. We…
02 - 06 Nov 2020 | Montréal | Event
Montréal and Saint Etienne will both participate to the EJC Virtual Summit, a space of dialogue between the actors of the university, economic, institutional, scientific,…
01 Nov 2020 | Wuhan | Event
The year of 2020 witnesses the heroic spirit carried forward by Wuhan design industry which played a pivotal role in both fighting the Covid-19 and…
27 - 31 Oct 2020 | Cape Town | Event
small is MASSIVE! Open Design Afrika calls on Afrikans and the world to action small seeds of change everywhere! Given vast changes in everyday life, Open…
25 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 | Singapore | Event
First hybrid edition explores the role of architecture in Saving OUR World Singapore Archifest, the annual festival organised by the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA)…
01 - 29 Oct 2020 | Torino | Event
From October 1 to 29, a new edition of Torino Design of the City will be held, despite this uncertain times, with enthusiasm and determination,…
22 - 28 Oct 2020 | Kortrijk | Event
THE FLOOR IS YOURS MADE TO MEASURE FOR YOUNG DESIGNERS, SCHOOLS & START-UPS. Young designers, emerging talent, independent start-up brands and design schools will once…
09 Jul - 26 Oct 2020 | Kortrijk | Event
Regional developer Leiedal, partner of Designregio Kortrijk, sets the stage for Contrei Live, an arts trail on and off the water in the 13 cities…
22 Oct 2020 | Singapore | Event
Inspired by the late Dr. Milton Tan, Founding Executive Director of DesignSingapore Council (Dsg), join us for a series of two panel discussions that explore where…
10 Oct 2020 | Singapore | Event
Exploring the concept of ‘Play’ in the context of the future tropical metropolis, the “PLAY! Tomorrow’s Tropical Cities” exhibition features innovative ideas of next-generation designers…
05 - 07 Oct 2020 | UNESCO | Event
The UNESCO City of Design Subnetwork Meeting 2020, which is being hosted by Graz in cooperation with St. Étienne, focuses on the social, smart and…