Amman Design Week 2026: Accumulations

Amman Design Week returns for its fourth edition from 2 to 17 October 2026, under the theme Accumulations. The main exhibition, curated by Faysal Tabbarah, fills the Ras Al Ain Hangar in Amman with work by more than ninety designers, makers and collectives. Around it, a free programme of installations and events spreads across the city and, for the first time, Aqaba. Materials across the sites include plaster, ceramic, salt, timber and stone.

The exhibition asks how daily habits, surroundings and cultural memory give form to the things people live with, and to the value they place on them. Every project is paired with a trace: an artefact, an archival document or an oral history tied to its making. The curators open with a verse by the Abbasid poet Ibn al-Mu'tazz that warns against overlooking small things, since mountains are made of pebbles. Tabbarah describes parts of the show as "almost a material inventory".

Palestinian architect and historian Nadi Abusaada presents Troubled Waters, an octagonal fountain in white plaster. Its single coloured element is a floral tile, the only surviving piece of a fountain by the Armenian ceramist David Ohanessian that once stood in the Palace Hotel in Jerusalem. The plaster body proposes the lost whole from the tile's pattern and from historical references. At Darat Abu Adnan, a restored 1950s house in Jabal Al Lweibdeh, Jordanian designer Farah Tajeddin shows The Return. A stone feature in the garden becomes a table, set with cups and cutlery and with candleholders made from Dead Sea salt. In Ras Al Ain Park, Civil Architecture, co-founded by Ali Ismail Karimi and Hamed Bukhamseen, has built Folly with Jordanian ceramicist Sama El Saket's Haswa Ceramics. Its canopy of ceramic tiles and discarded eucalyptus wood winds between the trees.

The Hangar dates from the 1930s, when it held generators that powered the capital, and serves as the event's headquarters. This edition gathers 220 designers and makers across fifty-nine spaces and 204 events, organised with the Greater Amman Municipality. Four public works, including a shade structure and a lamp post, will remain in the city once the programme closes. Entry is free.