Dundee Design Festival is Scotland’s largest design event. Celebrating 10 years of Dundee’s status as the UK’s only UNESCO City of Design and curated by Local Heroes founder Dr Stacey Hunter, the 5th Festival embraces Multiplicity as its theme.

The festival is being held from 23-29 September 2024.

Dundee Design Festival has outlined the sustainability strategy that it hopes will make Scotland's largest design event the world's most sustainable design festival.

Clean energy, electric transport and an entirely tinned beverage offering are all part of the Dundee Design Festival's (DDF) sustainability strategy, while its most ambitious initiative centres on materials and circularity.

The festival has committed to using a maximum of 30 per cent new materials in constructing its entire event site, which will be located at the Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc in September.

This target will include stands for over 100 participating designers, as well as installations by Donna Wilson, Timorous Beasties, Gabriella Marcella and AdesignStorie.

Some of the used materials will come from the V&A Dundee's Tartan exhibition, some from Edinburgh craft and design gallery Bard and some from local suppliers, and everything is intended to have a further life after the event.