bangkok design week 2025: design up+rising

Bangkok Design Week 2025 (BKKDW2025) will be held from 8-23 February 2025, with the theme “Design Up+Rising: Facing Challenges with a Positive Twist”. The event aims to showcase how creativity and design can make a difference, solve problems, and help us face the challenges in this chaotic world.

Bangkok Design Week 2025 (BKKDW2025) invites everyone in the design industry and other creative fields, as well as anyone who wants to make a change, to rise up, view every problem from a positive perspective and overcome limitations in unprecedented ways, while elevating the value of design. Our goal is to highlight a significant role of design in driving life, society, and cities to a greater degree.

BKKDW2025 will be held across the areas of various districts in Bangkok including Charoenkrung – Talat Noi, Yaowarat – Song Wat, Thonglor – Ekkamai, Phra Khanong – Bang Na, Phra Nakhon, Pak Khlong Talat, Khao San – Bang Lamphu, Siam – Samyan, Hua Lamphong, Bangkok Yai – Wang Doem, Bang Pho, and others. It is open for participation in various forms, including exhibitions, talks, workshops, events, music and performing arts, tours, markets, promotions, and projects.

BKKDW is a platform where creators can showcase their potential via designs and creative works in a variety of programs that blend well in the urban context.

BKKDW welcomes everyone and every collaboration to take part in one of Southeast Asia’s biggest design festivals. Through a variety of activities, this will be a chance to showcase new ideas, potential, and possibilities to more than 400,000 visitors from various industries each year which will lead to meeting, exchanging, learning, and trading as well as be eligible to participate in business programs and networking events offered by the festival.

Additionally, all works that were submitted will be promoted through the festival’s online and offline platforms. They may also be chosen for interviews with the festival’s media and media partners from both domestic and international media outlets to become widely well-known.