If you’re looking for an experience where you can watch, listen, stroll, and enjoy at your own pace—while gaining inspiration and insight—Central Park: Design for Bangkok is not to be missed. The program invites everyone to explore how design weaves together Bangkok’s rhythms, from the heritage of Dusit Thani hotel to the making of a new city landmark, through exhibitions, talks, and creative activities that make learning engaging and easy to understand.

The inspiration behind Central Park: Design for Bangkok comes from recognizing the many rhythms of Bangkok and the possibility of weaving them together—from the energy of Silom and the calm of Lumphini Park to the cultural heritage and memories of the Dusit Thani hotel. 

This vision is driven by Kunayudh Dej-Udom, Asset Director at Central Park, who believes that this new landmark should be more than a real estate project. Instead, it is envisioned as a space that reflects the values of the city, connecting past, present, and future through a design process that prioritizes quality of life, people, and the surrounding context.

This led to Central Park: Design for Bangkok, which consists of three main components:

Design Talk: Designing the Future of Bangkok (Saturday, January 31), sharing the full background of the project – from executive vision to real design perspectives from architects, designers, and artists.

Exhibition: Exploring the City Through Design, presenting ideas, design processes, and intentions behind creating a park for Bangkok, divided into three zones: Build Your Central Park, Central Park Passport, and Breathe the Park, which explores selected plants that act as a small air purifier for the city.

The Landmark: Heritage in Motion, a 7-meter-tall sculpture by Thai artist Infinite Riot, bringing together the design DNA of Central Park, with parts created through live painting.

From a communication perspective, Piriya Kulganchanacheewin, Co-Founder & Story Curator at Glow Story and the person behind the storytelling of Central Park: Design for Bangkok, sees this project as more than an explanation of how it was made or how “good” it is. What matters more, he says, is expanding the meaning of the space beyond that.

“We want to show that this place, in the future, will become a canvas for other artists to continue creating. It’s a statement that this space is truly open to further creative extension.”

“From my point of view, what’s interesting is how this project changes the meaning of this place. People in Bangkok today can feel tired of malls, but after being involved with this project for about two or three months, we realized that it’s not about building another mall. It’s about preserving, reinterpreting, and extending a place. For me, this feels like a living museum—where you can truly live: eat, drink, talk, run, or lie down in the park.”

With the timing of Bangkok Design Week, which takes place shortly after Dusit Central Park has opened, Piriya sees this as an important opportunity to invite people to truly listen to the design process behind the project.

“Projects like this don’t happen often in Thailand. If the knowledge stays only with the people who made it, that would be a waste. Bangkok Design Week is a very good moment—the project has just opened, there aren’t many people yet, and it’s the right time to ‘listen to the background.’ When knowledge spreads, and we see more projects that think seriously about the city and its people, I believe Bangkok can truly become a better-designed city.”

Learn more about Central Park: Design for Bangkok:

https://www.bangkokdesignweek.com/bkkdw2026/program/153824