Lahore to have Design Week in March.

LAHORE -- The inaugural edition of the Lahore Design Week (LDW 2020) will be held from March 12 to 18 at the Alhamra Arts Council plus various sites across Lahore.

Founded by Rashid Rana, one of Pakistan's most prominent contemporary artists, LDW 2020 will be held under the umbrella of a not-for-profit design foundation set up to promote design practices, discourse and the design industry.

The focus of the event is to bring together three important stakeholders of the creative community: academia, industry and design practitioners at one platform in order to foster dialogue and collaboration among them.

LDW 2020 will include a series of design exhibitions, Index PK, a summit, a design expo for the industry, design awards and a range of site-specific and satellite projects. The city of Lahore will act as an important backdrop against which these programmes would be curated.

A series of 'open calls' will be announced in November 2019, inviting design practitioners, creative thinkers and design-oriented organisations and brands to submit their proposals for design projects and collaborations.

The LDW 2020 team is being led...

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