Design Vancouver Festival is back this September, and it’s turning the whole city into an open studio.
What’s Happening
For 11 days this September, the festival is throwing open the doors of 43 studios across Vancouver, alongside dozens of events built around a simple idea: showing the public the people, processes, and ideas actually shaping the city through design.
- Length: 11 days this September
- Studios participating: 43 across the city
- Programming: dozens of events spotlighting design people, process, and ideas
Why It’s Worth Your Time
Design shapes way more of daily life in Vancouver than most of us stop to notice — the furniture in a coffee shop, the signage on a storefront, the layout of a building you walk past every day. A festival like this pulls back the curtain on how that work actually gets made, and it’s a rare chance to walk into studios that are normally closed to the public.
Plan Your Visit
Specific studio addresses, individual event times, and RSVP details weren’t confirmed at post time — check Design Vancouver Festival’s own listings closer to September for the full studio map and event schedule.
Eleven days, 43 studios — that’s a lot of ground to cover. Which corner of Vancouver’s design scene are you most curious to see up close?
