Pordenone Design Week

A week that thinks with design

For a few days at the beginning of March, Pordenone stops being just a city in the Northeast and becomes a City of Design. It's the Pordenone Design Week, an event that takes design thinking out of classrooms and studios to put it in direct contact with people: in shop windows, in companies, in squares, in a continuous dialogue between culture and business.

Between business, school, and city

The program intertwines company workshops, where students and businesses work side-by-side, the original Lessons in the Window, which bring design education into the shops in the center, and a widespread exhibition that extends across multiple locations. A formula that makes the Design Week not an event for insiders, but an occasion open to the entire community.

A European perspective

The international dimension is strong: thanks to the Erasmus+ BIP program, the event hosts delegations of students from Finland, France, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Spain, making Pordenone a crossroads of European design. The concluding conference, dedicated to the themes of biodesign and artificial intelligence, closes the week by looking at the frontiers of design.

A permanent cultural ecosystem

Promoted by the University Consortium of Pordenone with the Pordenone Design Association, ISIA Roma Design, and Confindustria Alto Adriatico, the event aims to build a stable cultural ecosystem, in full harmony with the path that leads Pordenone to be Italian Capital of Culture 2027.