Irish Design Week

🎓 Step into the future as a student in 2070. The Pluriversity is a design project exploring what higher education might look like in a sustainable future. Spanning futures and systems thinking, strategic design, visual and digital design, spatial design, and experience and interaction design; Studio Saol brings to life imagined glimpses of life and learning in this future university where the curriculum is as organic and individual as the participating student. 🌿 At its heart is a sculpted model of the Shannon bioregion, made from local materials including reclaimed brick and ancient bog oak. After showing at FutureDays in Copenhagen and Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, The Pluriversity comes home. 📆 Thursday November 12th.  ⏰ 6.30pm 🎟️ Free 📍Church Gallery at Limerick School of Art & Design Supported by: University of Limerick and Rethink Ireland Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland. #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026

Welcome to the Table is a participatory visual project exploring belonging, third-culture identity and cultural exchange through food, table settings and shared meal rituals. Emerging designers co-create table environments inspired by different cultures, each table expressing heritage, traditions, rituals and contemporary habits. Responding to our theme of 🇮🇪 ‘Fáilte Future Europe’ 🇪🇺, Welcome to the Table, “engages creative young minds with contemporary discourse around multiculturalism – including local culture.” 📆 Monday November 9th to Saturday November 14th. ⏰ TBC 📍Belfast School of Art 🎟️ Free Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland. @dccireland Supported by: Belfast School of Art Blick Shared Studios Belfast Design Week Art Shop - Belfast School of Art #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026

👏 How can we celebrate the best of contemporary design? Which projects will matter in fifty years? 👏 The Irish Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is a new initiative and collaborative creation of the Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) and the National Museum of Ireland (NMI). It showcases projects nominated by Ireland’s leading design organisations and selected for their design excellence, innovation, impact, and cultural and national significance. IDEA offers a unique snapshot of contemporary Irish creativity and highlights the contribution design makes to Ireland’s cultural, social, and economic life. Projects are evaluated according to: 🔵 Cultural and National Significance 🔴 Design Excellence ⚪ Innovation ⚫ Impact 🟡 Contemporary Relevance We will announce the shortlist of candidates for the inaugural award next week, with an exhibition to follow next month. 📆 Saturday, November 7th — runs until January 23rd, 2027 ⏰ 3pm (opening) 📍 National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny 🎟️ Free Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland. #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026 #IDEA

🇮🇪 Explore the connections between Ireland and The Netherlands through design, culture and creative practice. 🇳🇱 Join Dr Linda King, curator of the current National Print Museum exhibition Come Fly With Me: Aviation, Tourism and Irish Design, in conversation with Declan Stone of The Stone Twins, an award-winning creative brand consultancy based in Amsterdam. ✈️ Come Fly With Me uses flight as a central thread to explore how design and print helped promote Irish modernisation and position Ireland internationally — a story spearheaded in part by a number of influential Dutch graphic designers. 🌍 📆 Monday, November 9 ⏰ 6pm 📍 National Print Museum, Dublin 🎟️ Free — no booking required Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland. #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026

Queer Shed Sligo invite you to Futurum: Sustainable crafts. Making is one of our primary ways of surviving. What happens when the world — the place where we live — brings us to a point where we must rethink the ways of doing and how we relate to what we make and how we take care of what’s around us? Craft becomes a vital tool for sharing skills, relearning practices from the past where caring for things mattered, opening space to build community, and promoting sustainability. Workshops include: 🧶 Knit Repair with Kim O’Driscoll (Monday 9th) 3️⃣ 3D‑printed ceramics with Stuart Lawn and Bettina Seitz from Manorhamilton FabLab (Tuesday 10th) ♻️ Eco printing on cellulose textiles with Malú Colorín (Wednesday 11th) 📆 Monday November 9th - Wednesday 11th ⏰ 4pm, daily 📍Ard Voltas Art Studios, Sligo 🎟️ €10 per event (+ bf) 🌈 Queer folks and allies are especially invited. Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland. More Info: https://lnkd.in/djHpAJDm #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026 #Futurum #QueerShedSligo

❓ What could AI become when communities help shape it from the start? Join designer Nathan Costello for a talk on Simulated Storytelling, a critical design project reimagining the Irish storyteller as a social robot. Using research through design, it was developed in collaboration with the community of Camp on the Dingle Peninsula, through fieldwork and staged storytelling sessions with local residents, a traditional musician and a practising seanchaí. Responding to our theme of 🇮🇪 ‘Fáilte Future Europe’ 🇪🇺, Costello says, “Fáilte sits at the heart of that question. The seanchaí tradition was built on welcome, with stories told in homes where anyone could walk in. The project carries that spirit into how AI is designed.” 🤖 A live storytelling session with the robot follows the talk. 📆 Monday November 9 ⏰ 6.30pm 📍The Harry Clarke, Lecture Theatre, NCAD, Dublin. 🎟️ Free (unticketed) Sponsored by National College of Art & Design Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland. #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026

💡Proper Dark is an immersive encounter enlightening human imagination. Artist and industrial designer Anthony McCarthy, explores the relationship between light, darkness, movement, time and perception and asks a simple question, “What might we discover if we stop rushing past things and give ourselves time to look?” Responding to our theme of 🇮🇪 ‘Fáilte Future Europe’ 🇪🇺 Proper Dark welcomes the future by brings together Irish art, industrial design, hand-built making, light, geometry and experimentation to create something that is contemporary, accessible and experiential. 📆 Saturday November 7 & Sunday 8 ⏰ 10am - 5pm (11am on Sunday) 📍Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 🎟️ Free Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland Anthony McCarthy Butler Gallery #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026

"⚡️ Our programme highlights for the festival this year which is united by the theme 🇮🇪 Fáilte Future Europe 🇪🇺 include: 💥 November 7th – Irish Design Excellence Award Exhibition, Kilkenny: Celebrating outstanding contemporary Irish design across multiple disciplines. 💥 November 9th – Design & Craft Conference, Dublin: Exploring authenticity, craftsmanship and human creativity in an increasingly artificial world. 💥 November 10th – Ireland’s Design History: From Arts and Crafts to AI, Dublin: Exploring Ireland’s design heritage and its digital future. 💥 November 11th – Design Futures in Heritage Craft, Dublin: Examining how traditional skills can be preserved and developed. 💥 November 11th – Irish Business Design Challenge Awards, Dublin: Recognising businesses using design to improve products, services and experiences. 💥 November 12th – European Creative Industries Summit, Dublin: Exploring how creativity can help address Europe’s defining challenges. Programme now available at https://bit.ly/3Tr5eJq Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026

Welcome to DCCI Irish Design Week (IDW) 2026 which returns with its most ambitious programme yet, bringing together designers, makers, businesses, cultural organisations, educators and creative leaders from November 7th to 13th. United by the theme 🇮🇪 Fáilte Future Europe 🇪🇺 IDW takes place during Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.              📸 Martha Hughes, Lace Artist alongside Niamh Smyth TD, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation at Carrickmacross Lace Gallery.   Programme now available at IrishDesignWeek.ie   Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland                                                                                                                                              #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026

Ahead of our programme reveal ,we are sharing insights into our identity and how designer Oscar Torrans addressed the brief. 🇪🇺 “Based on this year’s theme ‘Fáilte Future Europe’, we wanted to explore the past, present, and future through craft, technology and the unknown,” explains Torrans. 🪨 “We looked at traditional Irish materials such as clay and stone, alongside impossible forms created through digital software, using them as the foundation for our typographic forms. “We then recreated these materials digitally in 3D, before 3D printing them back into physical objects. This process moves between the physical past and digital future, using technology to reimagine traditional materials while reverting them into something tangible in an ongoing conversation.” 💫 Irish Design Week (IDW) brings together designers, makers, businesses, cultural organisations, educators and creative leaders from Ireland and across Europe for a week-long celebration of design in all its forms. 🗓️ November 7-14 📍 Nationwide ℹ️ Tuesday September 27 Irish Design Week 2026 is brought to you by Design & Crafts Council Ireland. #IrishDesignWeek2026 #IDW2026 Design & Crafts Council Ireland Oscar Torrans