Jumpstart your week with our insider's guide to events in the design world. From must-see exhibitions to insightful lectures and the competitions you need to know about—here's the best of what's going on, right now.

Monday

There's Still Some Time to Apply to: Arte Laguna Prize

The Arte Laguna Prize is an international open-themed art award based in Venice, aimed at enhancing Contemporary Art. The Prize is divided into the following sections: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art and performance, virtual art and digital graphics and 'land art.'

Venice, Italy. Online competition open for submissions through December 14, 2016.

Tuesday

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Catch the Venice Architecture Biennale Before it's Too Late!

According to curator, Alejandro Aravena, the Biennale's goals are to, "widen the range of issues to which architecture is expected to respond" and to "highlight the fact that architecture is called to respond to more than one dimension at a time, integrating a variety of fields instead of choosing one or another." 

Venice, Italy. On view through November 27, 2016.

Wednesday

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True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada

This landmark exhibition explores more than seven decades of Nordic aesthetic influence in Canadian design. Examining the ways that modern Scandinavian design was introduced to Canada and how its aesthetic principles and material forms were adopted and adapted by Canadian artisans and designers, True Nordic will present a comprehensive, critical survey of Canadian furniture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and glassware.

Toronto, ON. On view through January 8, 2017.

Thursday

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Artists in Their Time

Istanbul Modern's collection exhibition, Artists in Their Time, focuses on how artists position their work and themselves within the concept of time. It suggests a conceptual field for examining, and reconciling, the links between an artist's time and societal, cultural, natural and universal time. It unites artists from very different periods, geographies and disciplines around common themes.

Istanbul, Turkey. On view through December 31, 2016.

Friday

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IDSA Medical Conference

The design industry and the frontlines of the medical field are teaming up to provide insights into delivering improved healthcare value at IDSA's Medical Design Conference. Key takaways from the event include gaining actionable new perspectives and methodologies to impact work on building and strengthening successful design for healthcare and insights on the need for collaboration between the design and healthcare fields, including challenges and successful models.

San Francisco, CA. November 11 - 12, 2016.

Saturday/Sunday

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In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day

In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day presents the most exciting and critical design projects of 2016 in a daylong convening organized and hosted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Architects, curators, theorists, photographers, and filmmakers construct a global view of contemporary architectural practice.

New York, NY. November 12, 2016 at 10:30AM.

Check out the Core77 Calendar for more design world events, competitions and exhibitions, or submit your own to be considered for our next Week in Design.