FESTIVAL 2025 — Vienna Design Week

In 2025, the internationally oriented, curated festival will once again present a diverse cultural perspective on design – with specially commissioned projects in various formats.

The program focuses not only on the design of products, but also on exhibitions, interventions, workshops, talks, tours and contributions from areas such as social design, crafts, the circular economy and architecture.

The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is divided into several curated formats as well as associated outreach programs and the site-specific focal points Focus District and Festival Headquarters.

The contributions of partners from business and culture are also an important part of the program.

Over ten days in autumn, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK expects around 40.000 visitors at around 200 events at over 50 locations.

WHEN?
The 19th VIENNA DESIGN WEEK takes place from 26.9. to 5.10.2025.

Tickets?
Free admission to the festival headquarters for all visitors—no tickets required!
You can book tours and workshops here viennadesignweek.at/booking

FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS?
This year, the 2025 festival headquarters will be located in the workshop halls and showrooms of a former car dealership at Wiedner Hauptstraße 52 in Vienna's 4th district. More info...

PRINTED FESTIVAL PLANER
Printed festival planer are available at the festival headquarters and all partner locations—you can also view a digital version here.

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Festival Headquarters

Pit stop at Wiedner Hauptstraße 52! This year, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is opening the impressive workshop premises and showrooms of a former car dealership in Vienna’s 4th district as its Festival Headquarters. As the heart of one of the most significant curated design events in Europe, the Festival…

Passionswege 2025

The Passionswege are the oldest format of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and have been under the patronage of Vienna Tourist Board since 2024. In 2025, they will once again bring together international designers with Viennese craftspeople. Free from commercial constraints, creative dialogues emerge that…

Urban Food & Design 2025

This year’s edition of Urban Food & Design, a format jointly presented by the Vienna Business Agency and the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, focuses on the development of dyes and pigments from bioregional, natural resources as part of Biofabrique Vienna. With a focus on regenerative and regional value…

Stadtarbeit 2025

Vermehrt Schönes! With the format Stadtarbeit, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, supported by the Erste Bank sponsorship program – Vermehrt Schönes! – and in cooperation with Caritas Wien, has created an internationally respected framework for the implementation of social design ideas. Archives for the…

GAST

World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 (WDC 2026) Frankfurt RheinMain in Vienna: As of late, not only national states such as Switzerland or Finland can showcase their design scenes at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, but also cross-border areas, regions, districts, or – as is the case this year…

Moving Materials

Swiss watchmaker Rado is known for the unique and visionary design of its watches and its use of revolutionary materials. The brand is a relevant and dynamic player on the international design scene and is particularly proud of its collaboration with international designers. What has connected Rado…

Re:Form

Sustainability through Design and Strategy! Re:Form brings together design, strategic development, and Viennese companies to explore ecologically and socially responsible ways of doing business. In this program format, launched by VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2023 in collaboration with OekoBusiness Wien, the…

PLATFORM 2025

Special things are placed on the PLATFORM: Austrian and international companies, museums, cultural institutions, universities, galleries, and architectural and design offices of every size cooperate closely with the festival team as they present contributions that they have specially produced for…

FOKUS: Ageing

How time flies! For the fourth edition of the group exhibition format FOKUS, Estonian guest curator Sandra Nuut has compiled outstanding design objects that deal with aging in a poetic, experimental, and conceptual way. The exhibition highlights the relationship between design and aging and…

Design Everyday

While we are surrounded by an impenetrable world of merchandise that is making it ever harder for us to identify the qualities that lend validity to good design, the ninth edition of Design Everyday offers insights into the day-to-day activities of Austrian design studios. The format displays the…

Talks

Let’s talk about it! Through inspiring lectures and engaging panels, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK highlights the many facets of design. With the MEETING SUITES by Bene, the talk program of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2025 has a dynamic stage within walking distance of the festival hub. MEETING SUITES by Bene …

Workshops, tours & outreach

Festivals are places for meeting people and experiencing things. They create informal settings and safe surroundings for exchanging and understanding. This is the spirit with which the diverse outreach program of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK takes visitors of every age by the hand and offers them…

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