The pandemic we’ve been fighting for two years now has affected the design world in every way possible—one of the unfortunate things was the delays and cancellations of our favorite architecture and design events. However, this year, and as the world is slowly trying to go back to normal, we are promised a full calendar of events rich in knowledge and art.
Mark Your Calendars for These 10 Upcoming Design Events
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Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022
September 29th – December 05th, 2022
Open Space Office series, Portugal, 2011 ©Tito Mouraz
Terra is the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022—it focuses on territory, city, landscape, and on every sense of belonging to any place. As an international design event that is established on questioning research and practice, this year, Terra declares an intent and calls to action regarding climate change and climate challenges, pressure on resources, socioeconomic and environmental inequities, and how all these crises are connected to each other. In order to mitigate these complex situations, the design world needs a paradigm shift from a linear growth model to a circular evolutionary model—in simpler words, we need to perceive cities not as machines but as organisms.
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Oslo Architecture Triennale (OAT 2022)
September 21st – November 2022
Courtesy of Oslo Architecture Triennale
The Oslo Architecture Triennale of this year looks through the major social and environmental challenges the world is facing to perceive neighborhoods in a different way. The mission of this design event is titled “Mission Neighbourhood – (Re)forming communities” and its objective is to explore how we design the places we share. The Triennale seeks to ask a few questions; What are the features of good neighborhoods? How can infrastructure such as roads be transformed into neighborhood spaces? How can institutions, schools, and offices be designed so they accommodate more diverse uses and users? What is the value of good neighborhoods?
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Stockholm Design Week (SDW 2022)
7 to 13 February 2022 and 5 to 11 September 2022
Courtesy of Stockholm Design Week
Stockholm Design Week will be filled with exciting design events and news. This year, the event will run both in February and in September. However, due to current restrictions in Sweden, the activities will be minimized during February events—the good news is, the much-appreciated Stockholm Design & Architecture Talks will run digitally from February 8. The overall theme of Stockholm Design and Architecture Talks 2022 is “Being a Game Changer,” and it focuses on the most pressing issues affecting the industry today. The talks seek to answer questions regarding design circularity and innovative furniture design.
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Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB 2022)
September 07th – October 31st, 2022
Courtesy of Tallinn Architecture Biennale
The Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) is the largest and most important architectural design event in the Baltics, addressing current architectural concerns and digging into the field’s past, present, and future. TAB promotes collaboration between Estonian and foreign architects, as well as between architects and the general public. The winning TAB 2022 concept, “Edible; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism,” brings the natural world’s metabolism and experience abilities to the realm of cities and buildings. The planned curatorial exhibition’s major goal is to rethink and reimagine the circular economy’s logic and how it applies to the domains of design, architecture, and urban environment creation.
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Madrid Design Festival (MDF)
1 February to 31 March 2022
Courtesy of Madrid Design Festival
Starting next month, Madrid will be hosting the fifth edition of the worldwide Madrid Design Festival, which will transform the city into a design capital and place it at the forefront of the global design scene. Exhibitions, seminars, workshops, and conferences are all part of this design event, which comprises a diverse program of activities with designers, specialists, and industry professionals. The festival is a platform for the design sector in Madrid and Spain, bringing together institutions, brands, corporations, museums, and venues from all over the Spanish capital to showcase the finest in local and national design, as well as the discipline’s ability to tackle the most difficult problems.
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Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture (UABB 2022)
August – October 2022
“City and the Sky above” – MVRDV + Airbus, 2019 Image © UABB. Image © UABB
The Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale, which is a design event that runs concurrently in both cities, offers a unique approach to the conventional architecture festival. The goals and focus of UABB’s 8th edition remain unknown, with the tentative topic of “Rethink & Rebuild Resilience” and a curator yet to be revealed in mid-January. Previous editions, on the other hand, have established this biennial as a platform for cutting-edge views on cities and urbanization.
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DesignMarch
4 to 8 May 2022
Courtesy of Design March
DesignMarch brings together attendees and visitors who are interested in progressive design and innovation. The festival ushers in fresh and unexpected ways, and it serves as a vibrant platform for ideas, various perspectives, and information as a driving force that enriches and improves society. In partnership with other stakeholders, the impressive design event provides inspiration with the goal of sharing the exhibitions, participants, and their content to a greater audience, both in Iceland and beyond. The festival takes use of the opportunity to focus on design as a catalyst for creativity and to illustrate the critical role of design, architecture, and innovation in society, particularly in this time of global uncertainty.
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International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo
May 21st – July 10th, 2022
Crossings – Winning Team of the Co-Curatorship Call of the 13th Biennale
With the underlying topic of Travessias (Crossings), the 13th International Architecture Biennale of Sao Paulo considers the relationship between bodies and territories, addressing issues such as colonialism, migration, displacement, and collective memory. The design event’s program expands through a succession of diverse “axes” such as democracy, memory, bodies, information, and ecology, based on Maria Beatriz Nascimento’s concept of crossings. What are some examples of urban environments that support democratic processes? How do facial recognition, the Internet of Things, and collaborative mapping influence the built environment? What does it take to create a shared memory?
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Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (XII BIAU)
September 2022
Courtesy of BIAU XII
This year, the XII Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism will be held in Mexico, and it will focus on solutions to social, ecological, and economic concerns that are beyond the mainstream architectural discourse. The famous design event focuses on the urban context unique to Iberoamerican lands, as well as private and public space.
