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.