Carmen Montiel and Thais Delogo, students of the Master's Degree in Research in Art and Design, participated in the third edition of the Madrid Design Festival in a workshop led by the strategic consultancy firm Soulsight to address the challenges that the cities of Madrid and Barcelona will have to face in the 21st century.
In this activity, carried out at Fundación Telefónica in conjunction with students from other design centres, they worked on the future environmental, demographic, urban and social challenges and how Design Thinking can help to improve them.
In relation to the growth of urban centres, cultural creation, transport or loneliness in today's cities, the students proposed the creation of different proposals to solve each of these problems: from an app to coordinate collective transport to a new concept of neighbourhood playgrounds, parks scattered around the buildings or a method of identifying and promoting emerging urban cultures.
The workshop was set up as a bridge of collaboration between the Madrid Design Festival and the Barcelona Design Week.
Madrid Design Festival, image Fundación Telefónica, © Ricardo Domingo