the most important multidisciplinary 10-day festival in Romania, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a special edition this year and will explore how the festival changed the way the local creative industries look.

Themed as #FORWARD, this year’s Romanian Design Week, organized by The Institute and presented by UniCredit Bank, will take place in May between 13 and 22 in its main venue in Combinatul Fondului Plastic as well as outdoor activities in 29 Baiculești Street. 

As the organizers emphasized, this year’s theme is born from “the desire to investigate, test and design scenarios for a future of creative communities, innovation, inclusion, sustainability through collaboration, to have more harmonious cities and communities.”

After presenting hybrid programs in 2021, this edition will be RDW’s first physical festival after the pandemic this year.

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RDW exhibited over 1,400 design projects in 15,000 square meters area and­ received 150,000 visitors 

World Architecture Community is official media partner of Romanian Design Week 2022 and will be bringing you the latest news from the festival. 

RDW explained its statistics so far and continued that The Institute has produced exhibitions totalling an area of over 15,000 square meters, brought to the public over 1,400 design projects and an average of 150 designers and design or architecture studios per year. 

In 9 years of the festival, The Institute reopened 8 spaces of the capital-city for the public, which it restored to the urban circuit, giving them back to the city. 

Thus, Știrbei Palace, Bucharest Chamber of Commerce Palace, Gabroveni Inn, Amzei Square, Cobălcescu Garages, Telephones Palace, Oscar Maugsch Palace and Combinatul Fondului Plastic hosted large design and architecture exhibitions, which could be visited during Romanian Design Week.

RDW added that organizing over 400 design events around the city of Bucharest have also contributed to the transformation of the city of Bucharest year after year and guided the steps of over 150,000 RDW visitors on routes worthy of any European design festival. 

“Behind the largest Romanian Design festival is the work of a team of 15 people, as well as an average of 6 months of work, per year, for organizing each RDW edition,” said the organizers of RDW.

“In total, the effort behind an initiative like the Romanian Design Week amounts to over 6.5 years of work, put in the service of promoting local design and Romanian creative industries.” 

Exhibition view from 2021 RDW. Image © Roald Aron

“We continue to transform Bucharest into the capital-city of Romanian design” 

“When we looked back at what all these years of Romanian Design Week meant,