Nairobi Design Week

Nairobi Design Week Festival, Agency, Community

Save the date for Nairobi Design Week 2026! 🗓️ 7th-15th March
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Nairobi Design Week is an annual festival that promotes the Kenyan design community, in collaboration with local and international partners. Our mission is to show the importance of all design disciplines and their impact on economic, social, cultural and environmental development. We spend the year growing our network to better connect agencies and creatives to clients and projects within the com

munity. By sharing, collaborating and learning together, we are creating business, employment, and education opportunities in design.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you 🪄 Sarah Boris () will give a talk on her jou...
17/03/2026

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you 🪄

Sarah Boris () will give a talk on her journey in art and design at the University of Nairobi Department of Architecture on Wednesday, 18 March 2026 from 2pm to 5pm.

At the ADD Building, she will give practical advice on a creative career as well as share insight and case studies into her public artworks and recent exhibitions.

Sarah Boris is an artist with a practice spanning across sculpture, drawing, painting, bookmaking and printmaking. Some of her work includes modular art, furniture using reclaimed materials, clocks and installations. What’s more, she is part of the Emerging Designers programme supported by the British Council.

For more information, visit her website at sarahboris.com

🎙️ An afternoon talk with Sarah Boris

📅 Wednesday, 18th March 2026
⏰ 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
📍 ADD Building, UoN Architecture Studios
🔸Hosted by the University of Nairobi, Department of Architecture & Architectural Students Association ()

Because this isn’t just about academics, it’s about discovering a space where you can grow, find your people and unlock your full creative potential 🪄

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Community spaces shape us 🪄 Not just the buildings or streets, but the special moments we share with people.Spaces for H...
15/03/2026

Community spaces shape us 🪄
Not just the buildings or streets, but the special moments we share with people.

Spaces for Humans brings together creators, builders and changemakers in a conversation on how art and design can meet real human needs within our community.

Panelists:

🎙️Ahmed Ayman (Diba Studios - )

🎙️Patrick Othieno & Jamey Ponte (Kibera Art District - )

🎙️Steven Ndumbi (Nairobi Institute of Technology - )

🎙️Wairimu Mwaura (Visit Ngara - )

🎙️Leon Muchugia (Jasiri)

🎙️Shekina Imani Orangi (Zamatra - )

🗓️ Saturday, 14th March 2026
⏰ 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
📍 Alliance Française Nairobi (Wangari Maathai Auditorium)

🎫 Alliance Française students enter free, just bring your student ID

Prices: 1500KES for adults | 750KES for U18s & students




Africa is a generator of ideas 💡 Join Omar Degan, Founder and Curator of the Pan-African Biennale, as he explores how ar...
15/03/2026

Africa is a generator of ideas 💡

Join Omar Degan, Founder and Curator of the Pan-African Biennale, as he explores how architecture can shape resilient communities, reclaim agency and reimagine African cities and futures.

Degan’s work transforms design into a tool for resilience and identity.

Come sit with us and be part of the conversation ✨

🎙️ A conversation with Omar Devan ( )

📅 Sunday, 15th March 2026
⏰ 4.30 PM – 5.00 PM
📍Alliance Française Nairobi (Wangari Maathai Auditorium)

🎫 Alliance Française students enter free, just bring your student ID

Prices: 1500KES for adults | 750KES for U18s & students




Some practices don’t stay in one lane.They move between disciplines 🪄 Between forms.Between ways of makingBecause creati...
15/03/2026

Some practices don’t stay in one lane.
They move between disciplines 🪄

Between forms.
Between ways of making
Because creativity rarely lives in just one place 🎨

Multi-Practice: A Journey in Art & Design explores the creative world of Sarah Boris — an artist whose work spans sculpture, drawing, painting and printmaking.

Through exhibitions and public art projects across Europe, her work continues to explore how art and design meet, influence and reshape one another.

Join us for a conversation on navigating multiple creative practices and how different mediums can become one evolving language.

🎙️ A conversation with Sarah Boris ()

🗓️ Sunday, 15th March 2026
⏰ 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
📍 Alliance Française Nairobi - Wangari Maathai Auditorium

🎫 Alliance Française students enter free, just bring your student ID

Prices: 1500KES for adults | 750KES for U18s & students




Community is something we build together ✨ At Nairobi Design Week, Paper Worlds () opens a conversation on community, aw...
15/03/2026

Community is something we build together ✨

At Nairobi Design Week, Paper Worlds () opens a conversation on community, awareness and representation.

Join our conversation on the art and principles of origami, followed by a guided folding experience for participants.

🎫 Folding sessions are free for participants

🗓️ Saturday, 14th March 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
📍 Alliance Française Nairobi (Wangari Maathai Auditorium)

🎫 Alliance Française students enter free; just bring your student ID

Prices: 1500KES for adults | 750KES for U18s & students




Nairobi, stay safe 🌧️The long rains have arrived in Nairobi which means surprise showers and the city moving a little sl...
15/03/2026

Nairobi, stay safe 🌧️

The long rains have arrived in Nairobi which means surprise showers and the city moving a little slower.

A little extra awareness goes a long way, let's look out for one another and stay safe during the wet weather 🤎

Most buildings begin as drawings.As lines and images of what could be.But architecture only becomes real in the hands of...
14/03/2026

Most buildings begin as drawings.
As lines and images of what could be.

But architecture only becomes real in the hands of the people who build it 🏗️

Dominicka Janicka invites us to rethink how buildings are made - reconnecting architects with builders, communities, materials and craft.

Bridging Design and the Production of Architecture explores how architecture can move beyond lines and images toward being more responsible and climate-aware.

Join us for some notes on keeping architecture human!

🎙️ A conversation with Dominika Janika ( )

🗓️ Saturday, 14th March 2026
⏰ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
📍 Alliance Française Nairobi (Wangari Maathai Auditorium)

🎫 Alliance Française students enter free, just bring your student ID

Prices: 1500KES for adults | 750KES for U18s & students




Clothing begins long before the first stitch.It starts with an idea.A line on paper.A piece of fabric waiting to become ...
14/03/2026

Clothing begins long before the first stitch.

It starts with an idea.
A line on paper.
A piece of fabric waiting to become something more 🧵

Stitch and Soul is a celebration of the garment-making process from conception to construction.

Join us as we explore how pattern, fabric and the body come together.

Because every piece carries a story.

Panelists:

🎙️ Sophaya ()
🎙️ Miss Njeri ()
🎙️ Kibarango ()
🎙️ Sharon Jerop ()

🗓️ Saturday, 14th March 2026
⏰ 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
📍 Visit Ngara

🎫 Prices: 1500KES for adults | 750KES for U18s & students




The Nairobi Design Week 2026 festival guide 🥳 Follow a city-wide trail of exhibits, talks, workshops and installations, ...
14/03/2026

The Nairobi Design Week 2026 festival guide 🥳

Follow a city-wide trail of exhibits, talks, workshops and installations, each one exploring what it truly means to be human.

Come, walk, wander and discover the threads that tie our creative city together 💫

This is your chance to be part of an extraordinary celebration of humanity, diversity and creativity.

Because design doesn’t live in galleries alone; it thrives in our streets, our stories and our shared energy.

👥 Networking opportunities available

🎫 Festival passes valid for all 9 days at all venues
Prices: 1500KES for adults / 750KES for U18s & students

🟫 Nairobi Design Week 2026: Let's Be Human
📅 March 7 - 15, 2026
📍 Diba Studios | Alliance Française Nairobi | The German Cultural Institute in Nairobi | Visit Ngara

🕒 Diba Studios & Visit Ngara: 10am–5pm
🕒 Goethe‑Institut & Alliance Française: 10am–8pm

Come find your favourite corner of Nairobi Design Week 2026 🪄

Karibu Nairobi Design Nights!🎉After a full week of conversations, exhibitions, ideas and community, we close the 11th ed...
14/03/2026

Karibu Nairobi Design Nights!🎉

After a full week of conversations, exhibitions, ideas and community, we close the 11th edition of Nairobi Design Week with a night of celebration at The Shelter KE.

Join us for an open, relaxed evening with our community, partners, speakers, crew, exhibitors and friends of the festival.

We will have music, good conversations and a visual archive showcasing the 11-year history of NDW as we look back at how far the festival has come.

Come through and tag a friend along 🪄

🎫 Entrance is free for all

📍 Shelter KE
🗓 Saturday, 14 March 2026
⏰ From 8PM till late




Fashion is not always a runway. Sometimes it is a garden, a walk, a pause or a face that holds a story 🪄 Let's Be Human ...
13/03/2026

Fashion is not always a runway.
Sometimes it is a garden, a walk, a pause or a face that holds a story 🪄

Let's Be Human moves through the Alliance Française gardens, through the exhibition, and into the Wangari Maathai Auditorium – where models become a living, glowing portrait of the designs they wear.

Then the portrait breaks open.

Models step into the crowd, carrying the brands, the stories and the humanity behind every stitch.

This is not a show you watch.
It is one you enter 🌿

🗓️ Saturday, 14th March 2026
⏰ 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Alliance Française Nairobi

🪪 Alliance Française students enter free, just bring your student ID




A room holds more than furniture. It holds choices about how we live, what we value and the world we are quietly buildin...
13/03/2026

A room holds more than furniture.
It holds choices about how we live, what we value and the world we are quietly building around us 🍃

At Diba Studios (), interior designers and makers come together to explore what it means to design spaces that are not only beautiful but also honest.

Designing With Intention: Interior Design & Sustainable Living is a conversation about the materials we choose, the practices we protect and the spaces that reflect who we truly are.

A conversation with:
🎙️ Imani Collective ()
🎙️ Elewa Art ()

🗓️ Saturday, 14th March 2026
⏰ 2:00PM - 3:00PM
📍 Diba Studios (Conference Hall)

Come and reimagine the spaces you call home ✨




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