Check out the best 2025 exhibitions from Dezeen Events Guide, including Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births, which examines the arc of human reproduction through the lens of design.
Design You Can Feel and Design and Disability were also among the architecture and design exhibitions that were featured in Dezeen Events Guide this year.
Other event highlights include Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds and Coherence by Karin Mørch.
Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births
4 October 2025 to 15 March 2026, USA
More than 250 products, artworks and projects exploring reproduction are currently on display at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City.
Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births addresses how design has supported fertility and infertility, pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood over the last 150 years.
Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds
11 October 2024 to 31 May 2025, UK
Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds was an exhibition by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), examining architectural projects developed in challenging environments.
The London-based showcase featured models, drawings, plans and photography of projects built in awkwardly shaped sites and uneven terrain.
Nakagin and Kiyotomo: Architectural Icons from Tokyo, 1970s–1980s
2 November 2024 to 28 February 2026, Hong Kong
One of 140 capsules that formed Kurokawa Kisho’s Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo is on display in Hong Kong at the Nakagin and Kiyotomo: Architectural Icons from Tokyo, 1970s–1980s exhibition.
Taking place at the M+ museum, the exhibition displays the capsule, which would have previously served as a residence or office space.
Ahryun Lee: Hoppy Marvels
16 January to 6 February 2025, USA
New York City-based design gallery J. Lohmann Gallery partnered with ceramicist Ahryun Lee to present an exhibition of her work.
Titled Hoppy Marvels, the exhibition featured playful, tactile design objects in bright colour combinations.
Coherence by Karin Mørch
17 March to 25 April 2025, UK
Danish artist Karin Mørch’s Coherence exhibition was on display at London’s Vessel Gallery earlier this year, exploring glass, its properties and how it can be used.
Mørch took inspiration from architectural projects, as well as music and dance, to create the glass design objects.
Design You Can Feel
8 to 13 April 2025, Italy
For Milan design week, Dezeen once again partnered with technology brand ASUS to present the most recent rendition of Design You Can Feel, which was previously created for last year’s London Design Festival.
This year, the installation was located at the historic 1920s Galleria Meravigli and incorporated semi-transparent wings that responded to visitors’ movements.
Veenweide Atelier: Design for a Sunken Marsh
24 May to 26 October 2025, the Netherlands
Veenweide Atelier: Design for a Sunken Marsh was an exhibition that showcased the findings of the Veenweide Atelier research project by designer Henriëtte Waal.
Located at the Fries Museum in the Netherlands, the display included art, design and architectural plans for the nation’s peat meadows.
Design and Disability
7 June 2025 to 15 February 2026, UK
Design and Disability – currently on at the V&A – spotlights the design, art and architecture objects, as well as fashion and photography, created by disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people.
More than 170 pieces are on display at the museum, which examine how design can become more equitable and accessible.
Dirty Looks
25 September 2025 to 25 January 2026, UK
The Barbican is presenting Dirty Looks until January 2026, displaying clothing, shoes and accessories by fashion houses Maison Margiela, Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood, as well as emerging designers Yuima Nakazato and IAMISIGO.
Each piece is an example of how decay, mess and dirt have integrated into the fashion industry, changing perceptions and standards of beauty.
Dezeen was a media partner of Dirty Looks.
Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition
4 October to 30 November 2025, Japan
Eight exhibitions were on display in the Japanese cities of Onomichi and Fukuyama, created by 21 architecture and art groups.
The projects celebrated Japanese architects, including landscape architects, Pritzker Architecture Prize winners and those who developed historic structures.
Dezeen was a media partner of the Hiroshima Architecture Exhibition.
About Dezeen Events Guide
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