Coordinated by the Design Foundation, the aim of the Consell del Disseny (Design Council) is to help the Valencian city council to build an increasingly friendly, accessible, green and forward-looking city. This pioneering consultative body in Spain was approved by the Local Government Board of València City Council in July 2022 and finally constituted in September of the same year, born in the heat of World Design Capital Valencia 2022 as one of its most significant legacy projects and becoming the first design council of a city council in our country.

Its members are: Silvana Andrés (visual artist and teacher), Carmen Baselga (interior architect and designer), Inés Novella (architect and urban planner), Kike Correcher (graphic designer and strategic consultant), Marisa Gallén (designer, president of the Associació València Capital del Disseny, National Design Award 2019), Xavier Giner (product design teacher), Yolanda Herráiz (designer, president of the Designers’ Association of the Valencian Community (ADCV)), Nacho Lavernia (designer, National Design Award 2012), Maite Palomares (architect), Irene Reig (designer), Ana Segovia (industrial designer), Jose Manuel Vidal (landscape architect).

The ecosystem and maturity of Valencian design led the World Design Organization to designate Valencia as the World Capital of Design 2022 in a global project that was not just an agenda of events but the beginning of a change, an initiative that went beyond the local to become a project of national dimension and international projection that positioned the Region of Valencia, and by extension the Spanish design ecosystem, as the World Capital of creative talent.

With more than 300 activities on the programme, design is already part of Valencian public opinion today, taking over the city’s cultural offer in fifty spaces in 2022 whose data shows historical records of visitors (37,000 nationals and 34,000 foreigners) to content and exhibitions of the World Design Capital Valencia 2022 program generating a direct tourist impact of 29 million euros and an impact in the media quantified in 38 million euros of economic return in the written press between 2019 and 2022.

Acontecimiento de Excepcional Interés Público, Government of Spain (2020-2023)
Honorary ADCV Award 2019 in Entities
Levante-EMV Cover-Award 2019
ADI Culture Mention — ADI Awards 2024