From 9 to 11 October, the fair returns to La Santissima. Applications are now open for designers, artisans, producers and publishers interested in taking part
Applications are now open - until 5 July - for the eighth edition of EDIT Napoli, the event dedicated to editorial and authorial design, scheduled to take place from 9 to 11 October 2026 at La Santissima. At the heart of the new edition is the claim Where Design Shapes, which reaffirms the fair's focus on a design approach grounded in process, materiality, research and design responsibility. The open call is aimed at designers, studios, artisans, producers and design publishers, and reflects the principles that have guided the event since its inception: design quality, attention to processes and sustainability understood as the concrete outcome of method and supply chain. Alongside the Main section dedicated to exhibitors, Seminario also returns, the section conceived for designers under 30 and companies established no more than three years ago, with the aim of identifying emerging practices and supporting them within a structured curatorial framework.
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EDIT Napoli 2025 © Eller Studio
At a time when design often risks being reduced to image or trend, EDIT Napoli chooses to bring attention back to the cultural value of design. Over the years, this positioning has helped strengthen its role not only as an exhibition event, but also as a platform capable of activating relationships between companies, institutions and professionals, generating opportunities that continue beyond the days of the fair. Among the collaborations being renewed is that with the Instituto Cervantes of Naples, alongside an ongoing dialogue with design schools and academies. A network of relationships that also extends to sectors such as hospitality, retail, fashion and food & beverage, helping to expand opportunities for exchange and internationalisation for exhibitors. “EDIT Napoli 2026 is conceived as an edition of transition and anticipation: a prelude to 2027, which will be a key year for the city, already at the centre of growing international attention,” explains Emilia Petruccelli, co-founder and CEO of the event. “At a time of expansion for sectors such as hospitality and retail, EDIT positions itself as a platform capable of fostering and activating connections between design culture and market opportunities.”
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EDIT Napoli 2025 © Eller Studio
Beyond the fair itself, the 2026 programme will continue to develop through exhibitions, special projects and moments of discussion. EDIT CULT, dedicated to curated narratives and special projects, will be accompanied by talks, workshops and round tables designed to encourage dialogue and critical reflection on contemporary design.
“Where Design Shapes speaks of a design that shapes, while at the same time allowing itself to be questioned by the reality we live in,” says Domitilla Dardi, co-founder and curator of EDIT Napoli. “It is a reciprocal process, in which design takes shape through dialogue with the cultural, productive and social context in which it operates. It is an invitation to slow down and to measure value not through aesthetics, but through responsibility.” With the opening of the call, the path leading to the 2026 edition officially begins, confirming EDIT Napoli as one of the most attentive observatories on processes, material culture and design responsibility, at a moment when the city is assuming an increasingly central role on the international design scene.
EDIT Napoli 2025 © Eller Studio
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