Belfast Design Week is an annual multidisciplinary design festival celebrating design in Northern Ireland.

We started off in 2015 with our first festival as part of the Year of Irish Design 2015 and have since gone on to deliver hundreds of events - workshops, conferences, pop ups, exhibitions & more. Alongside this, we have worked on “special projects” such as podcasts, publications, competitions and local and international collaborations.

Our largest festival took place in 2019, pre-pandemic; we had around 100 events taking place all across Belfast including UX Design panels, running Family Design Days and setting up a hub in The Butcher’s Building in Smithfield Market, Belfast. When the pandemic lockdown measures were in place, we continued our work online and also delivered podcasts and an external pop up design museum that appeared in windows and walls across Belfast city centre.

We are now planning our next steps as we continue on our journey, building on the work we have done, but also considering what local designers and the general public would most benefit from. We have been lucky to work on some amazing projects over the past two years including a visit to Vietnamese artisans with Kilomet 109, a pilot project for the general public to grow their own plants and produce, a design collaboration in Hong Kong for wellbeing and a sustainable pop up museum.

Belfast Design Week is currently co-run by Blick Shared Studios & Karishma’s World.

If you would like to get in touch with us, please contact info@belfastdesignweek.com