What's it?
The Barcelona Design Festival, organized by BCD and FAD, aims to situate Barcelona as a world capital of design and innovation internationally. From 11th June to 11th July, this third edition aims to bring out the potential of companies, entrepreneurs and professionals and help them compete globally. With two main centres of activity -the Barcelona Design Week (11th June to 21th July) and the FADfest (25th June to 11th July) and the - this great event has an extensive program of activities that will bring design and society closer together and will promote design amongst citizens, professionals, entrepreneurs and the wider public, taking into consideration the economic and cultural dimensions of design.
Highlight
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Design Investment Forum. 20/06/2013
Opening of BCN Design Week and Barcelona Design Festival 2013. 11/06/13
Prize-giving ceremony of the City to City Barcelona FAD Award. 09/07/2013
Exhibition 'Dutch Bike'. 11/06/2013 - 25/07/2013
Prize-giving ceremony of the Delta Prizes and ADI Medals to Industrial Design. 27/06/13
Color Forecasting Workshop. 19/06/2013
MODAFAD 8/07/2013
Pecha Kucha Design Night - BCN Design Week Closing. 21/06/2013
BDW Labs. 11/06/2013 - 21/06/2013
BDW Kids. 15/06/2013 - 16/06/2013
BDW Circuits. 14/06/2013
«Design and film» series @ Filmoteca de Catalunya. 28/06, 05/07 and 12/07
Ecodesign Day. 18/06/2013
Design Services Market. 13/06/2013
Congress Leading Businesses towards 2050. 12/06/2013
Open Design/Shared Creativity. Paths of Innovation and Renovation 5 i 6.07
MODAFAD 8/07/2013
FADExpo. 25.06 – 31.10
Activities
11 June
Official opening of the BCN Design Week and the Barcelona Design Festival 2013.Inaguration. Where. Disseny Hub Barcelona. Organizes. BCD, FAD
Opening ceremony of the 8th BCN Design Week and the 3rd Barcelona Design Festival, event which aspires to position Barcelona as the international design capital.
11 June
25 July
25 July
Exhibition 'Dutch Bike'.Exhibition. Where. Disseny Hub Barcelona. Organizes. Yksi Expo, BCD, Reino de los Países Bajos
Exhibition of bicycles and of a collection of objects created by Dutch designers starting from bicycle parts or inspired by them.
11 June
21 June
21 June
Exhibition 'Urban Living Room'.Exhibition / Inaguration. Where. Disseny Hub Barcelona. Organizes. Reino de los Países Bajos, BCD
“Urban Living Room” is an art and design project by Dutch artists and designers Eddy Kaijser and Bas Kortmann. The Urban Living Room is a living room in public space.
12 June
BDW Lab with Nomon Design.Workshop. Where. Nomon Design. Organizes. Nomon Design
Creating a brand starts with a good name. It must be universal, memorable, timeless, suited to the company’s activity and to its target. Co-creation workshop on the process of constructing a name.
BDW Lab with Objects by Estudio Carme Pinós.Workshop. Where. Objects showroom. Organizes. Objects by Estudio Carme Pinós
Round table which will deal with all aspects of the creation and production process up to the marketing of a product.
Congress Leading Businesses towards 2050.Congress / Networking. Where. Disseny Hub Barcelona. Organizes. BCD
Visions of design around key spheres such as Health, Habitat or Consumption to try to sense what will happen in 2050. One of the objectives is to define the role of design as a contributor to this future.
13 June
Design Services Market.Networking / Business / Networking. Where. Disseny Hub Barcelona. Organizes. BCD
Business spaces for design service companies which will be able to interact with potential local and international customers to find business opportunities. Let's do business!
BDW Lab with abeldb.Workshop. Where. Arpa Design Centre. Organizes. abeldb
Strategic design, the key to brand management. Dynamic and participatory introduction to strategic design as a business tool.
13 June
21 June
21 June
Exhibition 'Zitten by Piet Hein Eek'.Exhibition / Inaguration. Where. Roomservice Design Gallery. Organizes. Roomservice Design Gallery
A retrospective of the designer’s journey through the chairs created from 1980-2012.
14 June
BDW Lab with Morera Design Consultants.Workshop. Where. Morera Design Consultants. Organizes. Morera Design Consultants
Shapes, colours and symbols to define a concept.
