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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

Join us for Irish Design Week 2026! Engage in insightful panel discussions, hands-on workshops, and inspiring exhibitions that will spark your creativity. Don't miss this chance to link and tie a connection!

Highlights

The Irish Design Excellence Award Exhibition

The Irish Design Excellence Award Exhibition

Events:
Keynotes
07.11.2026

Ireland's Cultural Capital - Moving from Funding to Investment

Ireland's Cultural Capital - Moving from Funding to Investment

Events:
Keynotes
09.11.2026

Irish Business Design Challenge Awards Ceremony 2026

Irish Business Design Challenge Awards Ceremony 2026

Events:
Keynotes
09.11.2026

Standing Ground: Ireland-France, Savoir-Faire, Innovation and the Future of Crafts

Standing Ground: Ireland-France, Savoir-Faire, Innovation and the Future of Crafts

Events:
Keynotes
11.11.2026 to 10.01.2027

ECIS 2026 (European Creative Industries Summit)

ECIS 2026 (European Creative Industries Summit)

Events:
Keynotes
11.11.2026 to 12.11.2026

EIT Culture & Creativity Seminar

EIT Culture & Creativity Seminar

Events:
Keynotes
11.11.2026

Design Kenmare

Events:
Keynotes
13.11.2026

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Join makers, cultural leaders, and entrepreneurs from Ireland's island and coastal communities for a unique gathering exploring how craft, language, heritage and place shape resilient and globally recognised creative enterprises.

Fri 13th Nov, 10:30 am

Fáilte Gaillimh

Join a hands-on hotel towel upcycling workshop to reimagine textile waste as new products and explore a more circular future.

Fri 13th Nov, 6:30 pm

Reimagining Hospitality Textiles

Design Kenmare festival, 13-15 November 2026: 18 conversations with 40+ designers and creatives, part of Irish Design Week.

Fri 13th Nov, 8:00 am

Design Kenmare

Neville Brody live in Dublin at the Royal Irish Academy of Music on 12 November 2026. A talk and panel on design's future. Tickets €10.

Thu 12th Nov, 6:30 pm

Neville Brody

Common Threads weaving: help weave a living room in the NCAD gallery window, Dublin, 9-11 November 2026. Passers-by welcome.

Mon 9th Nov - Wed 11th Nov, 10:00 am

Common Threads

Design for Public: Public Service Innovation

Wed 11th Nov, 9:30 am

Design for Public

Tue 10th Nov, 6:30 pm

100 Archive 2025 Selection

A symposium by 100 Archive and IADT on how Irish design is documented, kept and taught. 10 November, Carnegie Library, Dún Laoghaire. Irish Design Week 2026.

Tue 10th Nov, 4:30 pm

Design Practice and the Archive: From Studio to Archive and Back

Learn crepe-paper floristry with botanical paper artist Nodlaig Caffrey of The Paper Petal Studio. Create an Irish foxglove from FSC Certified crepe paper.

Sat 7th Nov, 10:00 am

The Irish Foxglove – A Crepe-Paper Botanical Workshop

Fibreshed Ireland’s 5th annual symposium: talks, panels, a film screening and exhibitions on strengthening local wool, linen and hemp value chains. Lunch included.

Fri 13th Nov, 10:00 am

Common challenges, interwoven solutions

EIT Culture and Creativity seminar, 11 Nov 2026. How creative industries drive innovation and resilience across Europe. Part of Irish Design Week.

Wed 11th Nov, 8:00 am

EIT Culture & Creativity Seminar

Join Jordan Ralph Design for Word Of Mouth, an Irish Design Week evening of talks with Thibaut Allgayer, Aoife Mulvenna, James Clarges & Fredrik Paulsen.

Thu 12th Nov, 6:30 pm

Jordan Ralph Design presents “Word Of Mouth”

Irish Business Design Challenge Awards Ceremony 2026

Mon 9th Nov, 9:00 am

Irish Business Design Challenge Awards Ceremony 2026

Eutopia illustration exhibition at The Space Between, Fenian Street. 18 Irish illustrators imagine a hopeful future. By Illustrators Ireland.

Tue 10th Nov, 7:00 pm

Illustrators Ireland presents Eutopia

Chris Haughton talk at the National Print Museum: The History of Information, exploring how we've communicated knowledge through design.

Chris Haughton and The History of Information at the National Print Museum

AI storytelling robot: join Nathan Costello to explore Simulated Storytelling, a seanchaí robot from the Dingle Peninsula, then hear it tell a story.

Mon 9th Nov, 6:30 pm

Simulated Storytelling

Defuse - Design for Use: 20 slides, 15 seconds, 12 speakers. A free, fast-paced night of ideas and stories for designers and creative minds.

Mon 9th Nov, 6:00 pm

Defuse – Design for Use

Come Fly With Me exhibition talk with Dr Linda King and The Stone Twins, on Irish and Dutch design, aviation and tourism. Talks and drinks reception.

Mon 9th Nov, 6:00 pm

An Evening of Talks with Dr Linda King and The Stone Twins

Ireland Cultural Capital event at RIAM: film, panel discussion and branding insight on how language shapes the value of culture and creativity.

Mon 9th Nov, 6:00 pm

Ireland’s Cultural Capital – Moving from Funding to Investment

Heritage craft careers panel at TU Dublin Grangegorman, 11 Nov 2026. Hear from stained glass makers, thatchers and conservation professionals.

Panel Discussion

Wed 11th Nov, 2:00 pm

Design Futures in Heritage Craft

Wed 11th Nov - Sun 10th Jan

Standing Ground: Ireland-France, Savoir-Faire, Innovation and the Future of Crafts

Immersive light installation by Irish artist Anthony McCarthy. Step into the dark and discover how light, movement and time change what you see.

Sat 7th Nov - Sun 8th Nov, 10:00 am

Proper Dark

Upcycling workshop in Dublin at NCAD. Bring a garment and transform it with native Irish wool, guided by Cúpla Snáithe and Floral & Fred.

Fri 13th Nov, 10:00 am

Cúpla Snáithe Workshop

European Creative Industries Summit 2026, 11-13 November. Policymakers and creative leaders explore design, AI and competitiveness during Ireland's EU Presidency.

Wed 11th Nov - Thu 12th Nov, 8:00 am

ECIS 2026 (European Creative Industries Summit)

Design of Craft Conference 2026

Mon 9th Nov, 10:30 am

Design of Craft Conference 2026

Sustainable crafts workshops in Sligo with Queer Shed. Try knit repair, 3D-printed ceramics and eco printing. Queer folks and allies welcome.

Sat 7th Nov - Tue 10th Nov, 4:00 pm

Futurum: Sustainable crafts x Queer Shed Sligo

Media literacy and design: how the visual shapes the news. Talks from Mark Porter and Francesco Franchi, with Typography Ireland.

Fri 13th Nov, 3:30 pm

Creating the News of the Future with Mark Porter and Francesco Franchi

Creative design workshop for 15 participants each day of Design Week 2026. Explore materials in 2D and 3D and take home what you make.

Mon 9th Nov - Thu 12th Nov, 2:00 pm

Change and Opportunity in Challenging Times

Bring Your Glass: We Bring The Pens & ideas

Sun 8th Nov, 2:00 pm

Bring Your Glass: We Bring The Pens & ideas

Music and landscape exhibition at Echo Space, Nenagh Arts Centre. Explore Anseo and graphic scores where sound becomes image. 10-24 Nov 2026.

Tue 10th Nov - Tue 24th Nov, 9:00 am

Anseo: Music As Design

Mon 9th Nov - Sat 14th Nov

Welcome to the table

Irish Design 2050 brings designers, makers, emerging talent and the public together to explore the people, purpose and future of Irish design.

Panel Discussion

Tue 10th Nov - Sat 14th Nov, 7:00 pm

Irish Design 2050

Explore textile repair, upcycling and laser engraving in this hands-on workshop. Mend, transform and personalise clothing and fabrics using creative techniques.

Thu 12th Nov, 10:00 am

Drop-In Repair and Upcycling session

Learn to create your own asymmetric basket using sustainable, home-grown willow and a unique foraged stick handle in this hands-on basketry workshop.

Thu 12th Nov, 10:00 am

Willow Asymmetric Basket Workshop

Wood assemblage workshop at Ardgillan Castle. Design your wooden wall sculpture, have it laser-cut, then build it with artist Maria Atanacković.

Fri 13th Nov, 10:00 am

Piece by Piece — a wood assemblage workshop

Fri 13th Nov, 12:00 pm

SORRY I’M LATE – MOODBOARDING AND CONCEPTUALISING YOUR IDEAS

ReStyle Galway

Sat 7th Nov - Sun 8th Nov, 11:00 am

ReStyle Galway

Carrickmacross Lace Workshop

Sat 14th Nov - Sat 21st Nov, 10:00 am

Carrickmacross Lace Workshop – The Butterfly – Theresa Kelly

Sat 7th Nov, 12:00 pm

The Irish Design Excellence Award Exhibition

Thu 12th Nov - Sun 15th Nov, 6:30 pm

Le Chéile Collective: Design Week Exhibition

Thu 12th Nov, 6:00 pm

The Pluriversity by Studio Saol