The annual design and creativity date
The Barcelona Design Week reaches its 17th edition with an extensive programme that includes exhibitions, conferences, workshops and open doors.
Showing the transformative capacity of design in the face of the unprecedented changes we are experiencing in the social, economic, ecological and cultural spheres, and bringing the world of design closer to the public, are two of the main objectives of the Barcelona Design Week (BDW), a festival that is this year recovering its pre-pandemic normality and will be held from 2 to 22 June. The BDW is directed and managed by the Barcelona Design Centre and promoted by the Barcelona City Council, in collaboration with the FAD Foment de les Arts i el Disseny and the Museu del Disseny.
A party on 2 June at 7 p.m. at Disseny Hub Barcelona will kick off the BDW, an event open to everyone where you can discover different projects by food designers and greet the virtual assistant of this year's edition. On the same evening, the main exhibitions and installations of the festival will be launched. It will not be the only event in ceremony format: throughout the BDW, there will be the FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design (on the 14th), the ADI Awards for Industrial Design (on the 15th), and the ADG Laus Awards for Graphic Design and Visual Communication (on the 16th). The conferences and workshops will be one of the highlights of the event, with titles such as "How does generation Z see digital advertising", "Carme Pinós: the creative process", and "FAD Forum: Artificial intelligence, arts and design". The trend analyst Francesca Tur Serra, the members of the audiovisual research studio Playmodes, and the photographer and visual artist Lídia Vives are just some of the speakers at this edition of the BDW.
Among other proposals, the festival will also open the doors to the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion on 5 June, Barcelona's first craft distillery on 3, 10 and 17 June, as well as different showrooms. In addition, the OFF BDW programme, which encourages proposals for activities related to design, creativity and innovation, will host up to a hundred activities, including exhibitions, installations, presentations of new products or services, workshops, and conferences.
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