Design will dominate the city’s cultural and professional calendar throughout the month of September.
Exhibitions, conferences, editorial presentations, thematic routes and audiovisual screenings open to all audiences will take place, alongside major events such as Feria Hábitat València, the TAC! Festival and Valencia Disseny Week.
The main objective of the festival promoted by the Fundació del Disseny (Design Foundation) is to continue highlighting the Valencian Community’s image on a national and international scale as a territory indisputably linked to design.
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September is synonymous with design in Valencia. The design sector’s calendar is once again focused on the Valencian Community throughout the month thanks to a programme that is open to both the general public and the professional sector. It was within this context, as a brand that embodies the spirit of València World Design Capital 2022, that València Design Fest was born. A festival that seeks to promote the best version of Mediterranean design and to value the conjunction of major events such as Feria Hábitat València, València Disseny Week (organised by the Designers’ Association of the Valencian Community) and the urban architecture festival TAC!.
The Design Foundation of the Region of Valencia was born and develops its activity as a legacy of World Design Capital Valencia 2022. A year of celebration and positioning of local talent that was possible thanks to the previous designation by the World Design Organization (WDO).
With the aim of continuing to strengthen ties, recognition and to continue promoting the use of design to achieve a better world, today the collaboration with the WDO is extended and takes on a new form: making the Design Foundation of the Region of Valencia a new member of the international network of entities adhered to the organisation.
With more than 180 companies and institutions from all over the world, the various members of the WDO represent a global network that collaborates to support the profession of industrial design and promote its contribution to economic, social, cultural and environmental development.
Our country’s links with the World Design Organization (WDO) extend to other highly recognised entities such as the furniture brand Andreu World, Barcelona centre de Disseny (BCD) cluster, CEU Cardenal Herrera University and Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV).
On an international scale, the best universities in the field of design and creativity, as well as associations, foundations and institutions ensure the ethics and promotion of the discipline for a more prosperous, sustainable and diverse world. They are all part of WDO’s network of members across five continents. You can find them at wdo.org/community/members.
València Design Fest will take place next September, a design festival that will bring together national and international companies and professionals to discover first-hand the local talent, the creative effervescence of our city and the latest trends in design from the Mediterranean. All this, thanks to an agenda of activities made up of events dedicated to the industry, as well as exhibitions, conferences, presentations, projects led by emerging talents, pop-up spaces, screenings and themed routes, among many other initiatives. A full programme that, following the success and interest generated in recent years, is being extended to a whole month of activity.
The consolidated Feria Hábitat València and Home Textiles Premium by Textilhogar -coinciding in date and location from 19 to 22 September at Feria Valencia- stand as annual events of reference and, together with the city’s design week (Valencia Disseny Week), will become the epicentre of València Design Fest, a brand that inherits all the spirit of World Design Capital Valencia 2022 and integrates the local agendas of the entire Valencian design ecosystem, but also of art galleries, cultural centres and entities linked to architecture and creativity in general.
In short, a month of experiential, participatory and open events to continue to demonstrate the link and international relevance of València with creativity and design.
We are calling for design and/or illustration professionals, studios, collectives and agencies to create the image and application for Valencia’s candidacy to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
The Fundació del Disseny de la Comunitat Valenciana is carrying out this commission in collaboration with the ADCV (Designers’ Association of the Valencian Community), ComunitAD (Advertising Communication Companies of the Valencian Community) and APIV (Association of Illustration Professionals of Valencia).
In each edition of “nude”, design experts are responsible for guaranteeing a quality and innovative product, as well as for selecting the designers, studios and publishing firms that will participate.
On this occasion, Xavi Calvo—director of the Fundació—will sit on the jury alongside renowned professionals from the sector: the design journalist Teresa Herrero, the designer and founder of Venture Experience, Alberto Martínez, and Jacobo Ventura, interior designer and creative director at the furniture firm Alexandra. All of them will meet at Feria València and be coordinated by the founder and curator of the “nude” show, María Fontes.
Registration for “nude 2023” is open until 22 June. You can view the rules and all the details regarding registration on the competition’s website: nudegeneration.com.
The next edition of “nude” will take place from 19 to 22 September 2023 at Feria Hábitat Valencia.
Under the title “The Desired City”, this assessment of the city has been created with the aim of proposing opportunities in the city for the wellbeing of its residents, taking into account different types of intervention and prototyping for the Valencia of the future.
The document presents a vision of the city, an assessment and a proposal for the next steps, establishing the Consell del Disseny (the Design Council) as a consultative team made up of design and architecture professionals who help the Valencian city council to focus on the existing challenges to the relationship between the city and its citizens.
Design cannot cure anything in and of itself, but neither can a vaccine if we don’t have a syringe to inject it with. The design is part of the solution itself, not an added value; it is an essential stage in the development of any innovation for social good. From industry to architecture, from graphic communication to fashion, there are many examples that serve to highlight the value of this creative activity for the most important thing of all: our health. This is right at the other end of the spectrum from decorative aspects and accessories. All of them are presented in the book El diseño es bueno para la salud (Design is Good for Health), published by La Fábrica and promoted by the Fundació del Disseny, Andreu World and the MuVIM.
The first event in this inspirational series organised by Cosentino for design and architecture professionals will take place on 23 March. It is an open conversation to highlight the special relationship between the creative studio and the publishing company during the creation of a product or a space.
Expormim and the creative duo of MUT Design and Cosentino—from the field of product development and innovation—will take centre stage at the first Design Crush, presented and moderated by Marina Peñalver, journalist and editor at Architectural Digest Spain.
On Thursday 23 March at 6:30pm at the CTAV (Territorial College of Architects of Valencia) this meeting will take place to answer various questions, such as: What is the greatest value a creative studio can bring to a production company? How can you experiment with the use of traditional materials?
Issues to address the needs of the contemporary world from an emotional as well as a professional perspective.
La Nave was a collective of designers born from the merger of the Caps i Mans and Enebece (NBC) studios, which brought together eleven professionals from different disciplines, ranging from industrial and graphic design professionals to visual artists, architects and quantity surveyors. This exhibition brings together the prolific work of Eduardo Albors, Paco Bascuñán, José Juan Belda, Carlos Bento, Lorenzo Company, Sandra Figuerola, Marisa Gallén, Luis González, Luis Lavernia, Nacho Lavernia and Daniel Nebot.
From 9 March until 10 September, the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) is hosting a retrospective exhibition on the important work of this group of Valencian designers.
The work of La Nave is framed in a social context of transcendental political, social and cultural changes that gave rise to a movement that was known as “La Movida”, which was particularly relevant in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. This historical moment was also a turning point in the practice of design with the appearance and consolidation of postmodernist aesthetics, which represented a formal liberation and the definitive overcoming of the rigid principles of the Modern Style synthesised in the rejection of ornament—postulated by Adolf Loos—and Sullivan’s maxim “form follows function”. The resulting design was influenced by the major breakaway movements of the time: Memphis and Alchimia in Italy; the emerging figure of Philippe Starck; the graphics of Neville Brody; the work of Sostres or Peret in Barcelona, or that of Tibor Kalman in the United States.
We present the first practical guide to remind you that “yes, it is possible” to manage creative projects from a feminist perspective. Because equality must be pursued every day of the year and in various areas, such as by collecting testimonies, commissioning design professionals, organising round tables or even creating budgets. Design and creativity are drivers of economic change and this should also be the case in the social sphere.
Divided into different phases related to the development of a project (ideation, creation, setting up the team, communication and debriefing), this guide was created within the framework of International Women’s Day (8 March). However, its usefulness is timeless and it is designed to be a tool for use by studios, agencies and all kinds of professionals involved in design and creativity.