Venice Design Week is the festival dedicated to design held in the city of Venice, every October since 2010. For a week, the lagoon of Venice comes alive with exhibitions, conferences and meetings, competitions, workshops and guided tours that take place in a unique setting, full of history and contemporaneity, in a continuous exchange between cultures meeting and mutual comparison. VDW is a widespread event, in symbiosis with the city that hosts it, and that winds its way through calli and campielli, private galleries and museums, homes and artists’ studios, stores and workshops.