Every year in May for 9 days (including 2 weekends). In 2025 it will take place from May 10 —18.

Berlin, UNESCO City of Design since 2006, has not had a design event since the end of the DMY festival in 2016. In response to this gap, Alexandra Klatt and Max Borka activated a group of Berlin design players. In the same year, a small design festival with exhibitions, panels, showrooms and film evenings was created at 10 different locations in Berlin. Coordination Berlin, Atelier Haussmann, Made in Sishane, Crafting Plastics, Bezalel Design Academy, Joa Herrenknecht, Schömig Porzellan, UDK and HTW Berlin and others prepared the ground for something new. Alexandra Klatt, CEO of state of DESIGN GmbH, then initiated today's BERLIN DESIGN WEEK, which has become Berlin's leading design event with a growing community and international reach.

We are interdisciplinary: visual communication, product design, textile and surface design, interaction design through to circular design, new materials and manufacturing processes, urban planning and architecture. New focal points emerge from year to year.

Exhibitions, talks, presentations, lectures, showrooms, product presentations, experiments, interactive installations, pop-up stores, performances, workshops and networking events that take place at various locations in Berlin.

Every Design Week carries the DNA of its city. Berlin is an internationally attractive location as the capital of creativity, an internationally renowned science hub and a dynamic business location in the heart of Europe. As a major laboratory for sustainability, research and entrepreneurship, it is a breeding ground for innovation - and so at BERLIN DESIGN WEEK you will find a focus on sustainable projects, interactive approaches and bridges to technology and science. We see design not only as a creator of beautiful things, but also as a driver of solutions for socially relevant challenges.