Opening of 2026 edition

Amman Design Week 2026 opens its exhibition at the Ras El Ain Hangar.

Amman Design Week (ADW) 2026 opened its main exhibition on Friday at the Hangar in Ras El Ain, bringing together the works of designers, makers, and collectives in a historic building that played a vital role in the story of Jordan’s capital city.

Free and open to the public through October 17, the exhibition showcases how shared daily practices, material environments, and cultural memories accumulate, shaping the objects we live with and value. Organized in partnership with the Greater Amman Municipality, ADW 2026’s programs and exhibitions will take place at sites across Amman and, for the first time, in Aqaba.

Located in a valley among Amman’s hills, the Hangar was built in the 1930s to house the generators that powered Jordan’s growing capital. Over the decades, it became a symbol of the city’s modernization. After its restoration, it has once again returned to host exhibitions, fairs, lectures, and other events.

The Hangar Exhibition features the works of more than 90 local, regional, and international designers. Across the street from the Hangar, a public activation extends the exhibition into everyday life through talks, gathering spaces, and material experiments. Other installations at Ras El Ain Park draw inspiration from the city and region’s history.

Curated by Faysal Tabbarah, this year’s exhibitions follow the theme “Accumulations,” which encourages connecting design to its roots and exploring the many influences of our spaces, materials, and visual cultures.

"This edition brings together an exceptional range of place-based practices from across Jordan and the region, featuring designers, craftspeople, and makers whose work is inseparable from everyday life," said Tabbarah.

"It presents a layered portrait of local design, drawn from the hands, materials, and memory of a place that has quietly been designing itself all along."

The exhibitions and events take place in various locations in Amman and Aqaba, spanning four different districts. In Jabal Al Lweibdeh, Darat Abu Adnan (DAA), a 1950s heritage house owned and restored by Al Ameed Coffee, opens its doors as a venue for Amman Design Week.

DAA hosts several exhibitions, including the third Student Exhibition, supported by the Sukhtian Foundation, while public interventions extend into the neighborhood at Ash Shariah College Intersection and Paris Square.

Exhibitions in Iraq Al Amir unfold within a green valley of olive terraces and Hellenistic stone, with sites including Qasr Al Abd and interventions from Dima Srouji and Kais al Rawi.

For the first time, ADW has extended to Aqaba, with four works on display at Ayla Oasis in partnership with WUJŨD, a non-profit arts and culture organization. Meanwhile, in Jabal Amman, various participating spaces will offer exhibitions, workshops, talks, and open houses at galleries, studios, cafés, and cultural centers.

Contributing to visitors’ experience, ADW will provide captions at different exhibitions, which visitors can collect and store in a catalog box. In this way, visitors’ own collection accumulates as they move through and explore the exhibitions.

Designers include Sama El Saket, Ishraq Zraikat, Studio Karmeh, Tala Alhaj, Abeer Seikaly, L.E.FT, FADAA, Abdulrahman Muftah and Huzaima Al Rifai, Raya Shaaban, Daniel and Qusai, Abdullah Rihan, and New South.

More information on times, locations, and descriptions is available at www.ammandesignweek.com.