Prishtina Sustainable Design Week 2027 - The Living Lab

Prishtina Sustainable Design Week exists to put design to work. Once a year we turn the city into a studio. A week of conferences, workshops, exhibitions, public installations and open labs where designers, architects, researchers, scientists, students, craftspeople and neighbours build alongside one another. We treat sustainability as a method to practise: waste handled as raw material, production brought closer to home, knowledge shared in the open, and every prototype made in public view. What the festival makes it leaves behind: skills in the hands of young creatives and a network that outlasts the week. We imagine Prishtina as a city that produces its own future: a Fab City in the full sense, where what is consumed can be made, what is broken can be repaired, and what is discarded returns as a resource. In that city circular practice is ordinary infrastructure rather than an exception. Our broader horizon is a Kosovo whose design culture is exported rather than imported. We work towards a creative economy where young practitioners build careers at home, where regional collaboration is a habit, and where the country is recognised across the world for what it prototypes first.

PSDW 2027 - The Living Lab 

The city is not a finished product. It is a living lab: a place that keeps growing, changing and learning from the people who live in it. This year’s edition treats design as an ongoing experiment, not a polished result. Inspired by the Fab City movement, The Living Lab brings together makers, designers, citizens and nature to try out new ways of producing, sharing and caring for what we already have. Broken objects become starting points. Leftover materials become resources. Neighbourhoods become workshops where anyone can take part, whatever their age, background or skill level. “Living” points to nature, growth and cycles, and to everyday life as the real context for design. “Lab” points to curiosity, prototyping and the freedom to fail and try again. Together they describe a design week that is open, hands-on and unfinished on purpose. Through repair cafés, material experiments, open workshops, bio-design projects and community-led interventions, PSDW 2027 invites everyone to stop being a consumer and start co-creating the city. That means fixing, reusing and growing what we need, locally and together. Design that grows. A city that learns.