Genoa Design Week 2026: Design as an engine for urban regeneration
From 3 June, five days of installations, exhibitions and meetings throughout the city dedicated to the theme of Balance.
Opening on 3 June is the seventh edition of Genoa Design Week, the event organised by Dide-Distretto del Design di Genova (Genoa Design District), which, as President Elisabetta Rossetti emphasises, has the main objective of being a powerful engine for urban regeneration. For five days, Genoa will host installations, talk shows and exhibition routes involving the entire city.
The Balance theme
This year's theme is Balance, a reflection on the ability of design to harmonise different and often opposing elements by relating form and function, tradition and innovation, man, environment and technology.
For the third year Container 03, one of the most recognisable formats of Genoa Design Week 2026, is back. Curated by Simona Finessi, the route develops between the Porto Antico and the Darsena, in dialogue with the city's maritime identity, giving shape to a diffuse installation combining design research and poetic vision.
Ten studios differing in age, geographical origin and history will develop interior design scenarios inside containers transformed from logistic units into habitable and narrative environments. The theme of this year's section is Microliving, a reflection on the future of living between sustainability, flexibility and quality of space. The project invites participating studios to interpret micro-housing as a design opportunity, a laboratory of innovation and a tool for imagining new models of contemporary living.
Space for young designers
Also back for this edition is Designer Under 35, an itinerary dedicated to emerging designers curated by Laura Palazzini, in which 70 young creatives took part, who will have the opportunity to exhibit their works in 15 atriums of historical buildings in the city.
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