EINA participates one more year in the presentation of people-centred design, as an integral part of the EDIVI network (Education for Design for Life, a network of higher education centres of design for social innovation and sustainability). The 2022 proposal focuses on the planet as the key to a sustainable future, in the context of the European Year of Young People.
This event, open to all audiences, will take place on Tuesday 7 June at 6 pm in the B+C classrooms of the Museu del Disseny (Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38), and forms part of the activities of Barcelona Design Week 2022 and the 27th edition of the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2022.
Design, understood as an activity that anticipates and proposes future interventions, can help us to project a more sustainable world if we focus on the scenarios of all that is possible but has not yet become. This approach to designing futures has already been implemented in the Design for Identity course during the 2020-2021 academic year at EINA, in order to carry out interventions that, following the predictions of the philosopher Yuval Harari, will question the current models of territorial and collective identity.
This year EDIVI will show the projects of the Bachelor of Design students 'Hexahive', by Mariona Pons, Ferran Solà, Maria Guitérrez, Laura Garcia and Marc Saborit, with a proposal that aims to keep alive the pollination process carried out by bees all over the world, in a scenario of ecological collapse.
‘Manna', by Pol Gómez, Ona Vila, Laura Santiago, Tania Torrent and Patricia Solanas, will also be presented, which presents a superfood created for a future in which hunger will become the main concern. Both projects, halfway between speculative design and design fiction, have been tutored by Elena Bartomeu, designer and writer who coordinates the subject.
The session will take the form of project presentations and open debate. Design students and teachers from the educational centres that form part of EDIVI will be taking part.