Singapore Design Week 2024

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Singapore Design Week(SDW) returns this year from 26 September to 6 October 2024 in an 11-day celebration of Singapore’s distinctive brand of design and creativity.
Organised by DesignSingapore Council (Dsg), the festival will traverse the city-state with a rich and thought-provoking programme curated around this year’s theme “People of Design”. SDW 2024 will celebrate the everyday visionaries that shape our society through design, united by their collective aspiration to enhance how we experience life.
Anchored by a suite of engaging key programmes that reflect the festival’s three defining pillars: Design Futures, Design Marketplace and Design Impact, Dsg is working closely with leading industry experts to inform, intrigue and inspire all participants at this year’s SDW.
Design Futures
Design Futures will explore the future of design through Singapore’s forward-looking lens, aiming to prototype a better future for us all. Upholding this pillar is SDW’s flagship Design Futures Forum, which returns with an expanded format that will be held across two days.
Through thought-provoking presentations, engaging panel discussions and interactive hands-on sessions, the role of design and designers in the face of rapidly advancing technologies will be thoroughly examined, encouraging participants to enact change in their own spheres of influence thereafter.

Design Marketplace
Design Marketplace will unite lifestyle trends from around the world with the fast-growing design community of the Southeast Asia region. FIND – Design Fair Asia, Asia’s largest design trade fair, presents its third edition at Marina Bay Sands from 26 to 28 September 2024.
EMERGE @ FIND, Dsg’s talent showcase dedicated to Southeast Asian contemporary design, curated by Suzy Annetta of Design Anthology, returns with the theme of “These Precious Things”. Over 50 emerging and established designers from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam will present new works that explore ideas of both internal and external value. For 2024, the Southeast Asian showcase will place new emphasis on recently graduated designers from the region; through a new partnership with online art gallery, The Artling, works by presenting designers will also be available for purchase.

Design Impact
Design Impact will inspire with innovative and impactful design solutions that tackle society’s biggest questions. The Future Impact 2: Homecoming Showcase is a key event of this pillar. It debuted at Milan Design Week 2024 featuring seven designers: Christian+Jade, David Lee, Faezah Shaharuddin, Gabriel Tan, Genevieve Ang and Interactive Materials Lab, Tiffany Loy and Zavier Wong. The much-anticipated return to local shores will see the exhibition run for eight weeks at the Asian Civilisations Museum with some designers refreshing their pieces for this special return show.

Expanded footprint of design districts
Following a successful introduction last year, this year’s design districts will span a greater area within Singapore’s dynamic districts of Bras Basah.Bugis, Orchard and Marina. Incorporating the festival theme of “People of Design” with its own unique take, each district will present special commissions, exhibitions, experiential activations, installations, workshops and more, reflecting the individual charm and character of the local community.
- Bras Basah.Bugis Design District
- Marina Design District
- Orchard Design District

SDW 2024 will also feature over 70 ground-up events across the island from the design community, ranging from exhibitions, talks and panel discussions to workshops, tours and retail pop-up experiences. More details will be announced in the lead-up to the festival.