Designweek.Manila

Visit / Intramuros → BGC

The city
is the
venue.

Four hubs, eighteen satellite studios, and one shuttle loop that runs the length of the week. Most sessions are walkable from the last; the bus tour is the exception, and it is worth being late for everything else.

Third Wave Hall

H1

Talks, awards, opening

A. Soriano Ave., Intramuros

Civic Lab

H2

Digital & systems track

Bonifacio Global City, Taguig

Bamboo Pavilion

H3

Craft & making

Luneta Park, Manila

Reading Room

H4

Discourse & archive

National Museum complex

Visitors inside a Designweek exhibition hall with framed prints on white walls

Getting around without a car.

  • LRT-1 United Nations Avenue station is a 6-minute walk to Luneta and the Bamboo Pavilion.
  • Shuttle The red festival loop runs Third Wave Hall ↔ Civic Lab every 30 minutes, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., free with any pass.
  • Bike PinoyBike docks sit at every hub; the week ends with a mass ride to the closing wall.
  • Grab Use code DWEEK27 at Intramuros hubs — drop-off inside the walls is restricted during the week.

The pass desk

Ask us
anything.

A real person reads every message — usually the same week the office runs on too much 3-in-1. Group bookings, access needs, press, and student delegates all land in the same inbox.

What is this about?
Hands pulling ink across a screen-printing table
A full auditorium during an evening talk
A printed poster resting in foliage