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Dubai Design Week: design and creativity in Dubai

This dossier follows Dubai Design Week at Dubai Design District, its programme, exhibitions and associated meetings, distinguishing scheduled activities from documented outcomes.

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Where things stand

3 November 2026 marks the start of the twelfth edition according to the organisers’ calendar. The festival is scheduled to run until 8 November.

Dubai Design Week begins its twelfth edition

Dubai Design Week starts on 3 November 2026 at Dubai Design District, according to the organisers’ calendar. The festival is scheduled to continue until 8 November.

Archive aerial view of Dubai.
Archive view of Dubai; it does not depict Dubai Design Week. CommunistSquared / Wikimedia Commons, CC0. — CommunistSquared / Wikimedia Commons — CC0 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ; vue d’archives, sans modification.

The programme brings together exhibitions, installations, workshops and discussions about architecture and objects. The organisers say the festival is free to attend and open to all ages.

Downtown Design runs on a separate schedule, from 4 to 8 November, with its own ticketing. The makers’ marketplace is planned for 7–8 November. Those events are still ahead at the time of publication.

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