How we can design with people and the environment in mind, and what does it mean to design with life at the centre?
Biotik Design: Territories for Life invites us to change the lenses with which we work in creative processes to adopt a transformative perspective in a current context that is increasingly complex. Designing biotically means observing and proposing from an ecological, inclusive, collaborative, open source and experimental perspective. This tenth edition of BBDW proposes to rethink creative practices in order to orient them towards the design of a more sustainable, fair and innovative future.
BBDW24 is organized around five narratives:
- Exploring Experimental Innovation: explore and experiment with new ideas and technologies in design, promoting curiosity, critical thinking and social transformation through creative and speculative approaches.
- Promoting a sustainable future: promote responsible and conscious designs that optimise resources, minimise externalities and foster a harmonious relationship with the natural environment.
- Building equality and diversity: create inclusive and equitable environments that appreciate and promote equality, breaking down traditional paradigms and fostering diversity and reciprocity.
- Encouraging Collaborative Communities: foster collaboration and co-creation in urban and community design, taking into account the needs and expectations of all the people involved, and enhancing collective intelligence.
- Embracing Open Creativity: develop open source design solutions that ensure free access, distribution and reuse, fostering community management of resources and the creation of the commons
Bilbao Bizkaia Design Week 2024 gives shape to the process where different audiences interact: from professionals, organizations, students and training centres related to design, to other environments including public administrations, associations and the general public. The activities proposed by the curator are linked together and related, with the aim of generating a collective reflection with tangible results.
Key concepts for the audience to digest and transform into proposals will be introduced by international speakers at Kaixo!, the opening event. These include among others, Gabriela Rendón, architect and professor at the Parsons School in New York; and Martí Guixé, industrial and interior designer who works between Barcelona and Berlin.
Based on these ideas, and after a Master class, professionals and organizations from Bizkaia will generate a series of recommendations to activate a design that promotes living things in Bizkaia which will be set out in a “Decalogue of Biotic Design”.
At the Diseñatón, approximately fifty students from nine design schools will respond to the challenges posed by local organizations linked to the narratives of Biotik Design, and use the decalogue as a measure of the success of the proposals made.
On the other hand, an Action and Installation developed by the international artist Maider López, will focus on the capacity of citizens to build cities and care, connecting BBDW24 with the general public.
Lastly, Partekatu! closes the week with a festive event including some surprises to meet up and display the results of the collective process.
C O N T A C T
Carolina Gutiérrez Gabriel
E: cgutierrez@bilbaoekintza.bilbao.eus
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