One Design Week

Plovdiv is hosting an international festival on contemporary design and visual culture with ehibitions, workshops, discussions, lectures, children’s programs and parties. 

One Design Week is an international festival of contemporary design and visual culture, organized with the support of the Municipality of Plovdiv, America for Bulgaria Foundation and with support of Plovdiv – European Capital of Culture 2019. The festival program includes a professional forum with distinguished names from around the world, a series of events that are free access to the general public: exhibitions, workshops, discussions, presentations, lectures, children’s program, movies, books, parties.

Top: One Design Week, Materiality Brutality by the Nordic Culture Fund, Plovdiv, 2016. Above: Design bookery by Lidl Bulgaria

The multidisciplinary approach of the eighth edition of One Design Week transforms the festival as a platform on which there are a wide range of opinions, stories and audiences in search of a common ground. 195 participants from 22 countries and 132 Bulgarian artists will present their work during the design week, as well as being involved in the local context, working on topics that address its needs. 

One Design Week, Lava Lemonade, Plovdiv, 2016

“Can I help you?” is the theme of the edition, and will push the boundaries within contemporary design and help the audience to see design all around them. Simultaneously, the festival will focus on the process of the creation of design in every sense of the word – from information to the final product.

One Design Week, Jetsk Visser and Michiel Martens workshop, Plovdiv, 2016
One Design Week, Jetsk Visser and Michiel Martens workshop, Plovdiv, 2016
One Design Week, Plovdiv, 2016
One Design Week, Plovdiv, 2016
One Design Week, kids workshop, Plovdiv, 2016
One Design Week, Game Jam, Plovdiv, 2016