Celebrating Creativity & Collaboration
Indonesia Design Week returns in 2025 with an expansive line-up of engaging events and programmes.
Returning this September for its third edition, Indonesia Design Week is set to activate Indonesia Design District in the waterside district of PIK2 as a destination for designers and design enthusiasts from around the region and the world.
The nine-day IDW is an initiative by Indonesia Design District to cultivate a dynamic community design hub in Indonesia. This flagship event embodies the organisation’s broader vision to evolve beyond a commercial retail destination into a collaborative ecosystem for designers, architects and the creative community at large.
From 12 to 20 September 2025, IDW invites visitors into a broader conversation on creativity, innovation and collaboration, with both local and international perspectives that highlight how the universal language of design can connect ideas, communities and cultures across borders. As ever, IDW’s core message and underlying DNA is ‘Crafting Connection: Inspiring Tomorrow’, a philosophy that celebrates collective creativity and encouraging new ideas and partnerships.
This year’s theme is ‘Ideantity’. The concept combines idea and identity, exploring how identity is formed and expressed through design and calling the design community to rediscover and amplify Indonesia’s unique design identity. More than just a theme, the approach sets IDW up to show the world that Indonesia is a nation of designers and an emerging voice. Indeed, the country is no longer just consuming global design — it is contributing to it. And in the same way as the design weeks of Milan, London and Tokyo, IDW offers a perspective shaped by its regional context and diverse communities — rooted in culture, rich in materials and progressive in form and function.
In line with the theme, IDW hosts a series of programmes from immersive installations and retail activations to hands-on workshops and demonstrations. Created in collaboration between leading global brands and Indonesian designers, the installations feature Smeg, Snaidero, Kohler, Bosch, MM Galleri and more, demonstrating that Indonesia is not only a design market but a creative partner of global design leaders.
Another highlight is the series of collaborative showcases between local designers and collectives, which encourage experimentation, provocation and authentic expression of the country’s identity. This collaborative spirit extends to the wider design industry through a line-up of signature programmes such as Millimeter Manifesto, a curated showcase highlighting the works of nine Indonesian product designers, and a series of design talks curated and hosted by Design Anthology.
Key venues include the Market Hall, with local and international design brands that reflect global design trends and innovations, and Artisan Alley at the Mandapa, where a curated ‘bazaar’ spotlights Indonesian crafts and creative expressions.
In all, IDW’s comprehensive, thoughtful programme is about making design accessible, engaging and inspiring for a wider audience.
indonesiadesigndistrict.com/idw
