Anaïe Dufresne, one of the organizers behind the DesignTO Award winning exhibition ‘Ensemble presents: Pot-au-feu’, approaches her work through a lens shaped by scenography, the practice of creating stage environments or atmospheres.

Multimedia artist and 2026 Best in Festival: Window Installation Award winner Yana Rzayeva invites passersby to slow down, look closely, and engage with materials that carry both history and transformation.

Best Product/Object Design Award recipient Atelier Fomenta approaches design as a collaborative and evolving process.

Emerging Artist/Designer Award recipient Sky Ece Ulusoy explores the unseen forces that shape emotional and mental experience, inviting visitors into a space where fragility and resilience exist in tension.

Founders’ Award recipient Quan Thai explores the meaning of home through ‘TO·BE·LONGING: Portraits of Queer Living’, an exhibition that brings together stories of identity, memory, and belonging through domestic space.