The WSD2025 exhibition is open to all designers for performance as defined by the categories
below and we encourage individual designers to forward their work for consideration by the
international selection jury. Designers are invited to attend this global event, which will also
programme a schedule of activities, “Scenofest”, including workshops, seminars, performances,
and guest speakers offering global participation and multicultural exchange.
Submissions to the WSD2025 exhibitions must be realized performances, installations, sitespecific events, etc. produced between September 2020 and September 2024. WSD2025 includes
two parallel exhibitions: WSD2025 Exhibition for Professional Designers and the WSD2025
Exhibition for Emerging Designers. The Emerging Designer category is defined for designers who
designed their first professional or post-graduate production between September 2020 and
September 2024.
Exhibition Categories
The Exhibition will be divided into the following categories.
Criteria: All categories will look for evidence of ecological and sustainable design methods and
approaches as a core ethos. World Stage Design 2025 would like to acknowledge achievement and
will award special mention for work in this area.
Performance Design:
This category will look at the designer who crosses several disciplines (more than one design
area) in any performance genre. For example, as designers of set and lighting, set and costume,
lighting and costume, etc. in any form on a single production across any kind of live design. The
submission will be considered across the multi-disciplines it is being entered for, and not a single
design discipline.
Space & Object Design:
Space & Object Design as a category in WSD refers directly to design for performance spaces
outside of what might be perceived as “standard” scenic/set design. It is likely to include
installation, immersive, site-specific, and experimental work but may also be subject to the
interpretation of both the designer and ultimately the Jury. Space and Object Design also includes
(but not exclusive to) such genres as object-based devised performance, puppet design, mask
design, online performance, and community engagement. In this category, scale of work is not an
award criterion.
Set Design, Sound Design, Costume Design,
Lighting Design, Video & Projection Design:
This category covers individual areas in design for performance in either a conventional or
alternative context. It is up to the designer submitting work to determine in which categories they
would like to have their work evaluated by the jury. Each submission is for a single production.
Each entry will be charged the fee of 100 AED per submission, that is per production
submitted. Each designer may submit up to 10 productions. Please check the currency
exchange rate with your banking institution.
Image files: Submit in Jpeg format with a minimum of 300 dpi at A4 size.
(2480 X 3508 pixels)
Sound files: Submit 44.1K or 48K sample rate, 16 or 24 bit, in .wav or .aiff format only.
Maximum of seven minutes in length.
Video files: Submit the URL link on YouTube. Maximum of three minutes in length.
Should any applicant have difficulties with online application please contact
infowsd2025@spaa.ae for assistance.
More information available here
