# THE WORLD ENDS: Bangkok International Design Expo 2026, Asks What Comes Next for Design

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- Published: 2026-10-19T09:00:00+07:00
- Author: Media OutReach

#### _• Organized by Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (Public Organization) or TCEB, the event invites Thai and International Creative Communities to CREATE WHAT MATTERS._

BANGKOK, THAILAND – [Media OutReach Newswire](https://www.media-outreach.com/) –
19 October 2026 – **THE WORLD ENDS: CREATE WHAT MATTERS** — Bangkok International
Design Expo 2026 will make its international debut from **25–29 November 2026 at
Bangkok Kunsthalle**, bringing together designers, architects, artists, thinkers,
technologists, institutions and creative communities to ask a deliberately provocative
question: if the world as we know it is ending, what should design create next.

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 Confirmed participants include Mexico City’s **Lanza Atelier**, London’s **OK-RM**
and Thailand’s **CHAT Architects.** Exhibitions, pavilions, installations, talks,
performances and encounters will create a shared space for disciplines, cultures
and generations to meet.

 **One world ending. Another beginning.**

 THE WORLD ENDS explores the space between one world ending and another beginning.
Amid accelerating technology, artificial intelligence, environmental pressures and
changing cities, it asks whether design’s inherited assumptions are enough for the
world we are becoming.

 **HERE → BETWEEN → ELSEWHERE → CREATE WHAT MATTERS**

 HERE considers our identities, places, cultures, materials and communities. BETWEEN
examines the forces transforming our lives. ELSEWHERE explores alternative systems
and unfamiliar possibilities. CREATE WHAT MATTERS asks what we should create, why
it should exist, who it should serve and what it might leave behind.

 Participants are invited to propose what comes next. A place for better questions.

 Across architecture, art, culture and technology, local knowledge meets global 
perspectives, established voices meet emerging practitioners, and industry encounters
experimentation and fresh thinking.

 **Why Bangkok? Why now?**

 Bangkok’s interplay of old and new, formal and informal, local and global makes
the city integral to this exchange. Bangkok Kunsthalle, a former printing house 
in Chinatown, embodies this spirit of reinvention.

 The Expo builds upon THE WORLD ENDS: HERE BETWEEN ELSEWHERE Design Readiness Forum,
held in Bangkok in May 2026, expanding that conversation internationally.

 **Connecting creative exchange with opportunity**

 TCEB connects Thailand’s creative community with public and private sectors and
international networks, helping creative exchange develop into collaboration, business
opportunities and growth for Thailand’s creative economy.

 Come with ideas. Come with questions. Come to Bangkok—and CREATE WHAT MATTERS.

 Discover what’s next for design at [www.theworldends.org](http://www.theworldends.org)

Hashtag: #TheWorldEnds #BangkokInternationalDesignExpo #TCEB #MICEinThailand #ExhibitioninThailand#
ExhibitionsDepartment #GlobalDesignExhibitionHub

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