Service design has the power to reshape how public services, communities, and organisations create meaningful change — but only when we design with people, not just for them. This full-day workshop brings together practical service design methods with a deep focus on social impact, equity, and trauma-informed practice.

“Work in Progress: Process, Pause & Possibility” is a showcase celebrating the process behind interdisciplinary creative work, offering a supportive space where unfinished ideas are valued as an essential part of the creative process. Responding to the theme of Season, the showcase highlights the evolving, cyclical nature of creativity — where ideas emerge, shift, pause, and grow over time.

Step into the city with fresh eyes for the May Bank Holiday weekend.. This Homewerk Project is a guided creative adventure where participants are each assigned a unique building or place to explore in Belfast city. Armed with a set of thoughtful research prompts, you’ll explore and respond to unique design details and hidden histories that shape Belfast’s streets.

A talk that gives an overview of the Future Island-Island project where academics deliver hands-on creative, design-led workshops to children aged 9-11 years old (Key Stage 2) based on creating board games relating to specific environmental themes such as marine plastic waste, habitat loss and land pollution.

Seasons of Career is an opportunity for designers at all stages in their career to come together to talk about their ‘season’.

From the challenges and joys of starting out, to pivoting your career, reigniting your passion and intergenerational learning. Listen to four speakers talk about their season, with an open floor discussion at end.

Join us on 5th May for our next Creative Talk with Blick Resident Maureen Laverty as part of Belfast Design Week.

Maureen is a product and fashion designer, and inclusive design researcher.

We are delighted to be partnering with Belfast School of Art Shop this year for Belfast Design Week to give 8 emerging makers and designers the opportunity to meet with and get feedback from independent design and retail professionals. Participants will each have a 20 minute one-on-one session with our panel getting rapid feedback, constructive critique and guidance on products or works in progress.

PACKAGING is about moments. Purchasing moments in any season determined variously by year, culture, climate, trend, economy, health, event, emotion, religion… by season. krow explores with best-in-class examples – globally grown, and krow grown – how packaging gets itself seen, felt, and bought; by being in the moment, in the season.

Make a commitment to your creativity then print or embroider it onto a tote bag as a reminder of the promise you’ve made to yourself.

We’re excited to launch a brand-new collab workshop with Kitsch Sisters as part of this year’s Belfast Design Week.

Illustrators North play host to a live talk featuring illustrator Fiona McDonnell for Belfast Design Week.

Greening Belfast: Imagine, Design, Grow

Join us for a lively, hands-on session exploring how we can make Belfast greener together. Discover inspiring local projects, hear fresh case studies, and take part in a fun mini design sprint to spark bold new ideas. Open to all, followed by lunch, networking, and continued conversation.

The Life Enrichment Model applies creativity to a design of life that produces. It is about being a maker within life as a studio practice. Join art therapists Lisa Hinz and Pamela Whitaker as they discuss generative experiencing, ecologies of care and a life ecosystem of opportunity.

‘Platforming the Home’ presents a series of image-based speculations on imaginaries of home and practices of domesticity emergent from short-term rental platforms. Exploring the impact of platform economies on the home, these speculative prototypes render the digital reordering of the domestic sphere and the production of the algorithmic interior.

'A Hand In Nature' is an exhibition of new contemporary art metalwork and jewellery that honour the elements and ecosystems that make their existence possible.

Belfast Design Meetup is a free after-work event where designers can learn, connect, and grow together. Starting at 5:30 PM, we’ll have three talks and discussions, including Rachel Anderson, joining us from London.

Design Stories in collaboration with Belfast School of Art engages local design students in a placemaking and communication project, focusing on researching the Smithfield & Union Quarter and finding stories about local architecture, people, history, events, words and motifs that are unique to the quarter.