SLDF 2024 in a new setting: The exhibition space at Cinnamon Life. Inviting schools, students, parents, and industry professionals to meet the makers of tomorrow, AOD’s Create, Meet, Blend (CMB) movement transforms Colombo this November 19–23 with SLDF 2025 For over a decade, AOD has conceptualized and hosted Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) with national and private partnerships, elevating it to one of South Asia’s most potent catalysts for design, innovation, and creative e

As the Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) returns for its 16th edition this November, they are highlighting Colombo and its rich history, culture, creativity and design under the theme ‘What’s Your Colombo?’. Conceptualised and presented by the Academy of Design (AOD) and hosted by Cinnamon Life at City of Dreams, SLDF 2025 aims to be a citywide movement to position Colombo as South Asia’s next world-class creative capital. Having run a successful #WhatsYourColombo storytelling

This year, the Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) turns the capital into a living, breathing design museum. Under the banner “Discover Your Colombo,” fifteen immersive experiences invite locals and visitors alike to see the city anew; through the eyes of artists, architects, typographers, and storytellers. From tiled corridors beneath our feet to skyline perspectives from the Lotus Tower, SLDF 2025 celebrates design not as something confined to galleries, but as the very fabric

“What’s your Colombo?” It’s the question that the Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) has been asking – not just of designers and artists, but of everyone who calls this city home or has passed through its streets and stories. Because Colombo isn’t just one city; it’s many, each layered with its own rhythm, memory and meaning. For too long, people have passed through Colombo without really seeing it, perhaps because even we, who live within it, haven’t yet found the words to des

What’s Your Colombo?, a two-year, design-led initiative by the Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF), conceptualised by the Academy of Design (AOD), has set out to celebrate Colombo as a creative, cultural, and experiential capital through the eyes of its people.