Decided to attach African creativity with commerce, Design Week Lagos (DWL), Africa’s main competition of design, innovation, and tradition, is about to begin its 2025 occasion.
Since its debut in 2019, Design Week LagosDesign Week Lagos has hosted a whole lot of designers, manufacturers, and thinkers from throughout Africa and the diaspora. Its signature initiatives, together with the Made by Design documentary on Netflix, The Made by Design Showcase, and the Design Innovation Exhibition, have reshaped international perceptions of African creativity.
In response to the organisers, the programme scheduled to begin from October 23 via to October 28 will rework Lagos right into a city-wide celebration of creativity below the theme “Made in Africa: Shaping Industries, Shaping Futures.”
Founder, Design Week Lagos, Titi Ogufere, disclosed that DWL, now in its seventh yr, has advanced into a worldwide platform that spotlights African design excellence and connects creativity with commerce.
Ogufere stated the competition continues to place Lagos as Africa’s inventive capital the place design drives trade, tourism, and transformation. DWL has develop into a platform the place innovation meets alternative, spotlighting design as each a inventive and financial drive.
“Design Week Lagos exists to champion the ingenuity and ambition of Africa’s inventive neighborhood. Every version reaffirms our perception that design is a strong language, one which tells our tales, shapes our economies, and connects Lagos to the worldwide dialog on creativity and innovation,” Ogufere stated.
She stated that over six days, Lagos will pulse with exhibitions, installations, talks, and artistic activations unfold throughout its design districts, including that from the Made by Design Present and Design Innovation Exhibition to scholar showcases, and accomplice programmes, the competition will have interaction professionals, college students, and most people.
She additional stated that the programme anchored by the Lagos State authorities and supported by the Federal Ministry of Tourism, DWL 2025 underscores the rising momentum of design tourism in West Africa the place inventive excellence fuels new industries, schooling, and international visibility.
Basic Supervisor and Chief Government Officer, Wole Soyinka Centre (previously Nationwide Theatre), Tola Akerele, stated that the programme will get higher every year as a result of it retains exhibiting Nigerian designers pushing boundaries when it comes to the supplies they’re utilizing.
She recommended the organiser for sustaining the platform that showcases Nigerian architects, inside designers and product designers and their merchandise.
On her half, Commissioner for Tourism, Artwork and Tradition, Lagos State, Toke Benson-Awoyinka, stated the Design Week occasion suits into all the things that the federal government of Lagos State is doing to place the state as a worldwide vacation spot for the inventive trade
“Design week is likely one of the issues Nigeria ought to take a look at as a nation as a result of it’s the celebration of the arduous work of younger Nigerians doing nice issues,” she stated.
Commenting additional on the programme, Ogufere stated this yr’s programme options over 100 activations, 20,000 guests, and greater than 250 million media impressions, spanning exhibitions, talks, installations, studio excursions, and accomplice occasions throughout all 20 native authorities areas of Lagos State.
“Greater than 100 showrooms and accomplice activations throughout Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lekki, and Yaba, together with Roots & Resilience (Federal Palace Resort), Design Intersect 2025 (Soto Gallery), and the Launch of the Institute of Skilled Inside Designers & Product Inventors (IPIDPI) at Alliance Française.”
Among the many actions lined up for the week-long programme are Design Innovation Exhibition; Made by Design Present, Nigeria’s largest interiors commerce exhibition returns with over 100 premium manufacturers together with Woodstyles, Esorae Properties, ACTIU, Mimz Interiors, and IO Furnishings, reaffirming Lagos because the continent’s hub for inside innovation.
Others are DWL Talks & Dialogue in Design and Improvement, a two occasion of panels and keynotes bringing collectively architects, builders, producers, and policymakers. Featured audio system embody Bibi Seck, Victoria Adesanmi, Myles Igwebuike, Yew Kee Cheong (President, AIA), and Astrid Hébert (3C Awards).
Scholar Design Competitors, which is organised in partnership with Caverton Marine. This yr’s competitors challenges younger designers to rethink maritime mobility, with famend designer Kurt Merki Jnr as lead decide.
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