What if a festival wasn’t just something you attended but something you felt? Something that sparks your imagination and reminds you why you fell in love with design? FOAID 2025 is that homecoming, a celebration of ideas, passion, and the community that understands your creative journey.
Delhi’s Energy Lives On in Mumbai
After a remarkable edition in Delhi, the city set the stage for an unforgettable celebration of design. More than 6,500 visitors explored 350+ iconic projects and engaged with 100+ speakers across 150+ showcases that brought architecture, interiors, and innovation vividly to life. The venue buzzed with energy, ideas, and curiosity as both renowned visionaries and emerging talents came together to share, inspire, and challenge one another.
Global icons like Sir David Adjaye (Adjaye Associates), Andy Fisher (Andy Fisher Workshop), Sourabh Gupta (Studio Archohm), and Ravi Sarangan (Edifice Consultants) led inspiring discussions, while Delhi’s young designers showcased their creativity in live competitions, interactive workshops, and hands-on sessions. Every hall was alive with dialogue, experimentation, and collaboration, proving once again that FOAID is where ideas thrive when shared, celebrated, and challenged.
Now, Mumbai is ready to take that energy even further. On December 19th & 20th, 2025, the Jio World Convention Centre will transform into a hub where design is not just seen, but experienced. With the theme Your Ideas. Your Story. Your Festival, FOAID 2025, brings together creators, innovators, and dreamers, the people who shape the future of design, for a celebration that promises to be bigger, bolder, and more unforgettable.
From Delhi to Mumbai, the celebration continues. Come be part of the design revolution.
CMC Design Manthan: From Delhi to Mumbai
Delhi set the benchmark, raising the bar high and showing that ideas grow when they are shared, questioned, and celebrated. At the heart of it all was CMC Design Manthan, where Sir David Adjaye explored how architecture holds identity and memory, Andy Fisher reminded us that spaces come alive with emotion, Sourabh Gupta emphasized the importance of staying rooted in India’s context, and Ravi Sarangan highlighted clarity, precision, and purpose in design.
Now, Mumbai is ready to take that energy forward, a city that thrives on ambition and celebrates bold ideas. With celebrated visionaries like Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro), Soo K. Chan (SCDA), and Sanjay Puri (Sanjay Puri Architects) adding their voices to the dialogue, FOAID’s comeback promises to be louder, brighter, and more unstoppable than ever.
Pidilite Build India Vision: From Vision to Build
In Mumbai, the conversation between ideas and execution continues with Pidilite Build India Vision (BIV). Here, architecture comes alive not just through imagination but through collaboration, skill, and smart use of materials. Builders, consultants, and technical experts team up with designers to explore how creativity and construction work together. Topics like feasibility, sustainability, and future-ready design take center stage, inspiring solutions that are bold, practical, and built to last. The innovative projects recognized in Delhi set the tone, giving Mumbai a strong starting point.
VOX Architecture Ideas: Where Emerging Voices Shine
VOX Architecture Ideas gives young designers a chance to shine. Participants present their ideas live before a jury, defending, refining, and elevating their concepts. Many of the talented designers celebrated in Delhi will now inspire Mumbai’s emerging voices, showing how creativity, confidence, and courage can shape the future of design.
Design Karyashala: Learn by Doing
In Mumbai, Design Karyashala brings students into a hands-on learning experience. They step beyond classrooms to ask questions, test ideas, and explore new ways of thinking. Students interact directly with architects, interior designers, and digital design experts, learning through practice, feedback, and experimentation. The Delhi student winners and their projects serve as inspiration, motivating Mumbai participants to dream bigger and experiment more boldly.
ICA Creative Minds Next: Creativity in Motion
ICA Creative Minds Next gives young designers a platform to showcase both conceptual and ongoing projects before an expert jury. It’s a space to express ideas with creativity, clarity, and confidence. Many Delhi finalists left a mark on the festival stage, inspiring Mumbai participants to take their projects further and set new benchmarks for design innovation.
The Design Arena: Discover What’s Next
Mumbai’s Design Arena will showcase the latest in sustainable materials, smart technologies, and innovative products. The Lighting Pavilion will display inventive lighting solutions that are both functional and visually striking. Over 150 projects, including ICA Creative Minds Next finalists and emerging lighting designers, will demonstrate bold, original, and forward-thinking ideas. Delhi’s award-winning projects will inspire visitors, showing what’s possible when creativity meets innovation.
Be Part of the Celebration
FOAID 2025 in Mumbai is a celebration of energy, imagination, and collaboration. It’s a chance to experience design up close, celebrate emerging talent, and see how creativity shapes the world around us. Inspired by the achievements and winners in Delhi, Mumbai promises new ideas, exciting conversations, and fresh perspectives that push design forward.
Join the festival on December 19th and 20th at Jio World Convention Centre. Be part of the excitement, witness bold ideas, and feel the energy of a design community that never stops imagining.
Register now on the official website.
