Bangkok Design Week is turning 10. The citywide design festival will return from February 18th to 28th, 2027, with its 10th edition taking over Charoen Krung–Talat Noi and other neighborhoods across Bangkok.
This year’s theme is “DESIGN TO LAST,” which looks at how design can hold up in a world where businesses, cities, careers, and everyday life keep changing.
Designing for the future
The idea isn’t necessarily to design things that stay the same forever. Bangkok Design Week is instead asking what makes something capable of changing without losing the value that made it worth keeping in the first place. That could mean a business that can adapt to a new market, a city that responds to how people actually live, or a product that can evolve rather than quickly become obsolete.
It’s a fitting question for the festival’s 10th edition. Bangkok Design Week first launched in 2018 and has since grown into one of the city’s biggest annual creative events, spreading exhibitions, installations, talks, workshops, markets, performances, and other programs through Bangkok’s creative districts.
The Creative Economy Agency, which organizes the festival, says Bangkok Design Week now brings together more than 2,000 designers and creative businesses and attracts more than 400,000 Thai and international visitors each year.
Want to be part of it?
Source: Bangkok Design Week Official Facebook Page
Before there’s a festival, though, Bangkok Design Week needs the people who are going to fill it.
The open call is accepting applications through September 30th, with two ways to participate. Creatives and organizations can apply as program partners with an exhibition, talk, workshop, event, performance, tour, market, or promotion. Businesses and other space owners can also apply as venue partners, opening their locations to creative programs during the festival.
The call is open to individuals, creative practitioners, businesses, organizations, and other interested participants, with this year’s proposals expected to respond in some way to the broader “DESIGN TO LAST” idea.
Paul Rujopakarn