World Health Day 2025 will kick off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. The campaign, titled Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures, will urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being.

8-13 April 2025

International design fair and trade show Salone del Mobile hosts its 63rd edition in Milan. The fair is the largest of its kind and takes place during Milan Design Week.

12-20 April

13 April - 13 October 2025

Expo 2025 Osaka hosts exhibitions on Yumeshimanaka island in Osaka Bay, showcasing global design projects, including Australia. The event aims to explore technology, sustainability, Japan's Society 5.0 initiative and the nation's upcoming talent.

18-21 April

World Heritage Day, or International Day of Monuments and Sites provides a unique opportunity to raise awareness of World Heritage. The 2025 celebrations will focus on the 60 years of ICOMOS actions in relation to safeguarding heritage under threat of disasters and conflicts as well as its future objectives in prevention, mitigation, preparation, emergency response, and recovery that they and their partners can take to safeguard heritage in times of crisis.

18 April – 11 May

Discover historical treasures and stories as part of the 2025 theme ‘Unearthed’. Revealing the past, bringing to light lesser-known histories, stories and narratives, unearthing knowledge to empower younger generations as custodians of culture and traditions.

The United Nations designated 21 April as World Creativity and Innovation Day to raise awareness of the role of creativity and innovation in all aspects of human development.

22 April - 4 May 2025

The 12th edition of Boston Design Week takes place in 2025, with a programme of exhibitions, tours, talks and an awards ceremony.

Promoting, respecting and realizing the fundamental principle and right at work of a safe and healthy working environment also means addressing dangerous climate change impacts in the workplace.

10 May - 23 September 2025

The 19th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale is hosted in 2025, curated by the architect Carlo Ratti. The latest edition follows the theme Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective, addressing the future of intelligence through exhibitions and installations.

15-25 May 2025

Melbourne Design Week (MDW) celebrates design in an annual 11-day program of talks, tours, exhibitions, launches, installations, and workshops across Australia’s design capital. The program is driven by ideas through providing a platform for designers, educators, enthusiasts, thinkers, and businesses to come together to share these ideas, show and sell new work, and consider how design can be used as a force for good in an increasingly complex and precarious world.

16-25 May 2025

Romanian Design Week hosts its 13th edition in 2025, exploring architecture, fashion and product, graphic and interior design disciplines.

May 17 marks the date in 1990 that homosexuality was removed from the WHO Classification of Diseases. Over three decades later, LGBTQIA+ communities still face discrimination – but every one of us can make a difference.

19-26 May

Running from the 19th to the 25th of May, Australian Made Week celebrates the creativity, crafspersontship, and dedication of local makers and growers across Australia. It’s a time to discover new brands, learn the stories behind the products, and make a positive impact on the local economy.

National Sorry Day remembers and acknowledges the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families and communities.

27 May - 3 June

The National Reconciliation Week (NRW) 2025 theme, Bridging Now to Next, reflects the ongoing connection between past, present and future.

At a time when Australia faces uncertainty in its reconciliation journey, this theme calls on all Australians to step forward together.

Bridging Now to Next urges us to look ahead and continue the push forward as past lessons guide us.

1-5 June 2025

The inaugural edition of Antwerp Design Week aims to showcase more than 70 international designers across five participating districts.

Architects, designers and enthusiasts are invited to the city to attend over 60 events, including talks, tours, workshops and parties.

1-30 June 2025

Celebrating its 21st edition, the festival takes place for the entire month of June and celebrates the theme Voices, addressing the importance of "listening, amplifying and intertwining" the voices of communities.

1-30 June

World Environment Day, marked annually on 5 June, was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972. Over the past five decades, the Day has grown to be one of the largest global platforms for environmental outreach. Tens of millions of people participate online and through in-person activities, events and actions around the world.

World Oceans Day reminds every one of the major role the oceans have in everyday life. They are the lungs of our Planet and a major source of food and medicine and a critical part of the biosphere.

The purpose of the Day is to inform the public of the impact of human actions on the ocean, develop a worldwide movement of citizens for the ocean, and mobilize and unite the world’s population on a project for the sustainable management of the world's oceans.

18-20 June 2025

Annual festival 3 Days of Design returns to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2025 for its 12th edition, presenting a series of exhibitions, installations, talks, tours, workshops and parties.

25-26 June 2025

The Birmingham Design Conference 2025 features highlights from the Birmingham Design Festival, with a selection of creative workshops and talks.

Focusing on the theme of 'play', interactive workshops will be held at Birmingham City University followed by talks from local and international speakers.

26-29 June 2025

When envisioning the future, design is inherently a part of our collective imagination: a tool for reimagining how we connect, create, and challenge existing narratives. This concept expands beyond the exploration of technological spectacle. Design Futurism is a solution-oriented exploration of human potential. In 2025, LADF invites you to explore Design Futurism through various lenses of our collective human experiences.

1 September - 31 October 2025

The biennale aims to encourage citizens of Seoul to feel empowered to discuss the future of their city through exhibitions and forums, exploring human-centric design with designers, developers and neuroscientists.

9-10 September 2025

The 34th edition of the World Design Conference takes place at London's Barbican Centre in 2025, following the theme Design for Planet. Hosted by the Design Council, the biannual event features a series of talks led by designers, business owners, researchers and other industry professionals.

12 September 2025 - 28 February 2026

Chicago Architecture Biennial returns in 2025 for its sixth edition, titled Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change.

The event's programme explores the current and potential impact of architecture and design on global issues, focusing on material production, collective housing and migration.

13-21 September 2025

London Design Festival returns in 2025, hosting a series of talks, exhibitions, installations, product launches and open showrooms.

18-21 September

The exhibition presents furniture, lighting, textiles, materials, decorative pieces and kitchen and bathroom products.

18-26 October 2025

Annual design festival Dutch Design Week returns to Eindhoven in The Netherlands for nine days in 2025.

The programme of events – including exhibitions, talks, workshops, screenings and performances.

1-7 December 2025

Miami Art Week returns in 2025, hosting a range of fringe events across the city's neighbourhoods, including Miami Beach and Miami Design District. The festival's events include exhibitions, installations and pop-ups, as well as fairs such as Art Basel Miami Beach, Design Miami and Alcova Miami.