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Thank you all for coming to NDW2026: Let’s Be Human. Highlights, interviews, panels and more loading.
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Africa’s design calendar is no longer emerging; it’s expanding rapidly and changing the way the continent’s industry connects.

From Nairobi to Maputo, Joburg to Lagos and Dakar, platforms across the continent are building ecosystems, visibility and serious creative momentum.

These are the events we’re watching in 2026 — not because they’re the biggest, but because they’re shaping conversations.

Which one is on your calendar? Let us know in the comments if we missed any. by @nairobidesign_

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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 (@degan_omar @biennale_africa)

📅 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

#NDW2026
#NairobiDesignWeek2026
#LetsBeHuman
#NairobiDesignWeek taken in Alliance Française de Nairobi by @nairobidesign_

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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 🪄 by @nairobidesign_

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We’re excited to announce our official partnership with NAIROBI DESIGN_, annual festival and creative community in Kenya dedicated to showcasing and championing Kenyan and African innovation through design.

We’re proud to join a platform that celebrates creativity, collaboration, and the transformative power of design across the continent. taken in Nairobi, Kenya by @nairobidesign_

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MAISHA by @jerop_s_
The Human Experience.

MAISHA, meaning life, is a sustainable fashion collection that sits within uncertainty, presence, and continuity. The collection explores the human experience not as a fixed narrative but as something lived moment by moment. Through breath, weight, rupture, pause, and endurance. Using white as a shared human ground, the garments exist as ceremonial forms rather than defined identities.

Models: @maxine_lani_
@nicole.a.otieno
@stacy_ojiete
@jaqueciara
@halifornia.sauce_
@_more.of.kory_
@nduta.joy

creative director: @champnai_ taken in Nairobi, Kenya by @nairobidesign_

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✨ ✨✨ We are pleased to announce that Adrian Jankowiak, Founder & Design Director, Nairobi Design Week @adrianj.ig @nairobidesign_ , has joined the judging panel for this year’s @artsthread Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2026 in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture - judging within the Product / Architecture / Interiors categories.

All the judges will be individually showcased over the next few weeks - A to Z across IG @globalcreativegraduateshowcase & through a series of mp4s on Arts Thread.

See http://globalcreativegraduateshowcase.com or go to 🔗 in bio to see all the judges!

✅ This proactive initiative has been created for all creative students graduating this year in all art & design categories such as fine arts, visual communication, film, fashion, textiles, interior, architecture, visual arts, contemporary craft, industrial & product design and more!

✅ Open to all art & design students graduating between September 2025 - August 2026 (Southern Hemisphere graduating after September 2025) in any related creative discipline, located anywhere in the world.

✅ The Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2026 is your chance to share your creative work alongside your peers from around the world and get it judged by industry leaders.

✅ Over the past six years, it has become a vital global benchmark for graduating artists and designers:
31,364 graduating students
131 nationalities
736 art & design institutions worldwide
1.3 million+ public votes

Deadline August 31st to enter!

Link to http://globalcreativegraduateshowcase.com or from 📸 🔗 image link in bio by @nairobidesign_

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Comment “Project” for registration link. by @nairobidesign_

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What does it take to create project guidelines that protect the heart of a design vision while allowing creativity to thrive?
Join us for the next session in the Design Thinking Series as we explore Designing Project Guidelines: Protecting the Essence with @adrianj.ig , Founder & Director of @nairobidesign_ , facilitated by @savannahkagiri

📅 May 27, 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EAT
📍 Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KSNqr3N8QWivDAzmz8tXrA

A conversation on building meaningful frameworks, preserving creative intent, and designing with purpose. by @nairobidesign_

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🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨

What does it mean to create clothing that truly lasts?
This week on MAVAZY PODCAST, we sit down with @sophie_sticated._ the founder and Creative Director of @sophayastudio_official to explore slow fashion, conscious design, and the future of sustainability in African fashion.
🎙️ Full episode now live on Youtube and Spotify.

LINK ON BIO

Jacket by @missnjeri_fashionhouse
Wrist Watch by @waridieyewearke
Corset Muse: @puritymumbem

#MavazyPodcast #SophayaStudio #SlowFashion #SustainableFashion #AfricanFashion #consciousdesign by @nairobidesign_

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During the Nairobi Design Week we spoke with the three co-founders of Zienya Blooms about their company, their experience at their event and their relationship with their clients. Enjoy🥂

This is the last entry in a series that sought to peer into the future of Kenyan design through the stories of the next generation of Storytellers.

Director and DoP - Aaron Baraka ( @makatia.ab )
Edited and Coloured by - Aaron Baraka ( @makatia.ab )
Talent - Agnes Nyareso ( @senga_oserayn )
- Beryl Wabomba ( @_.bulind.aah_ )
- Shirley Kacchwaha ( @_kacchwaha ) by @nairobidesign_

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Can fashion also be ministry? 👗✨

This week on MAVAZY PODCAST, Ashley Njeri opens up about building Miss Njeri Fashion House where creativity, faith, and purpose come together.

From designing garments to spreading messages of hope and identity, this is a conversation about fashion beyond aesthetics.

🎙️ Full episode now live on YouTube & Spotify.

📍Link in bio.

#MAVAZY #AshleyNjeri #FaithAndFashion #AfricanFashion #KenyanCreatives #FashionCulture #ChristianCreatives by @nairobidesign_

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