Barcelona Design Week + IED Barcelona Workshop: Taking care of water. Strategic Design and Innovation

Date

22 October 2024

Time

16:00 PM - 19:00 PM

Where

IED Barcelona Point One - Biada 11, 08012 , , Barcelona - Spain

Fruition

In-person event

On 22 October, within the framework of the activities of Barcelona Design Week, the workshop ‘Taking care of water. Strategic Design and Innovation’ will be held at IED Barcelona, ​​an Associated Venue of the city’s design week.

This is a co-creation laboratory that will bring together actors and citizens to address the challenge of water from the design perspective, using a socio-material framework that spans everything from everyday objects, places and services, to systems, and even systems of systems.

Led by the expert in innovation and future thinking, IED Barcelona teacher John V. Wilkshire, and with the assistance of three facilitators, participants will be able to agree on specific points of intervention to foster the necessary changes for the future with regard to this resource.

The session will begin at 4 pm at the Point One facilities. It will also draw on material from the last two editions of the IED Barcelona Innovation and Future Thinking

Summer Course, where the critical issue of the future of water played a central role.

Free admission, reservation required here.

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