CDW26 Application Form | Cairo Designathon

Designathon Application Form

Please read the below information carefully before submitting your application.

Kairos CDC and PHOTONX are back with the 5th Edition of Cairo Designathon, the first collaborative design marathon in Egypt and MENA region.

This Edition will take place during Cairo Design Week Fourth Edition, from 22 November to 27 November 2026, in Heliopolis District.

Designathon Format:

A Collaborative Design Workshop: Multi-disciplinary designers are grouped together into teams and presented with a design problem, in one of the marathon's design challenges. Over the course of 5 days, they start ideating together on the best design solution for that design challenge using “Design Thinking Methodology”, with their assigned Design Mentors.

Jury Session: A diverse Jury committee for each challenge assesses the outcome of the design team and picks one winning team and one runner-up.

Award:

Winning teams get: Cash prize + Cairo Designathon Trophy + Publishing and exposure

Runner-up teams get: Cairo Designathon Trophy + Publishing and exposure

Important Dates:

Announcement & registration: Tuesday 27 Oct – Sunday 8 November
Shortlist announcement: Thursday 12 November
Designathon: Sunday 22 – Thursday 26 November
Live jury & awards: Friday 27 November

Applicants are required to be present daily, during the entire Designathon, in the Marathon Venue, in Heliopolis District, Cairo.

Application Form

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Designathon Theme:

RE:DEFINING MOBILITY

Beyond the conventions of movement.

A creative challenge inviting designers to rethink how we move, what moves us, and the relationships between people, technology, and the environments we inhabit.

The Designathon could feature two challenge tracks:
01 — BEYOND THE WHEEL: Reinvent the form of mobility.
02 — LESS MACHINE, MORE MOTION: Reinvent the efficiency of mobility.

These two themes share an ambition to challenge conventional automotive design, but each approaches the future of mobility from a fundamentally different perspective.

First name

Last name

Email address

Phone (please include country code)

What is your gender?

Male

Female

What is your age?

From which Governate?

Organization name

Field of Study/Profession

Please select type of Registration:

Individual

Group Member

If registering in a group, Please type the names of your group members: (groups are from 5-8 members)

Please explain why you are intreseted to join the design challange, and the impact you seek to achieve from this challenge, in no more than 500 words.

Upload your portfolio/CV

Upload File

Upload supported file (Max 15MB)

Type down the Url of your online portfolio/Behance account

I want to subscribe to Cairo Designathon updates

If you are accepted in Cairo Designathon CDW'26 Edition, you will receive a confirmation email on Thursday, 12 November 2026.

After Submitting your application please wait for a few minutes for your file to be uploaded. After submission, you will be directed to a thank you page.

Please note that while we do our utmost to assign participants to groups based on their main challenge selection, however, based on availability and limited places in each challenge, you may be assigned to an alternate challenge if necessary.