With Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026 as its central theme, 430 undergraduate students from the school’s different areas reinterpreted the city, its heritage and its architecture through the lens of design.
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Creativity, design and architecture at the Workshop Week 2026
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09 February 2026
A mini collection of contemporary accessories with Barcelona as a source of formal, symbolic and material inspiration; styling projects developed from observing the city’s architecture; Gaudí’s universe translated into a crochet bag; the essence of an iconic house transformed into a usable structure; geometric cardboard structures defining shared public spaces; the capture of the city’s pulse in audiovisual format; architectural videomapping; or an urban picnic conceived as a real element of urban intervention.
These are some of the 25 multidisciplinary workshops offered during the Workshop Week 2026 at IED Barcelona, held from 2 to 6 February, which on this occasion took Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026 as its central thematic focus.
Over the course of a week, this annual academic activity enabled 430 undergraduate students from the school’s different areas to explore the city, its heritage and its architecture through the transformative perspective of design, using new methodologies, techniques and tools, and always adopting sustainable approaches to materials and processes.
Working collaboratively and alongside a wide range of professionals, and for the first time, the multidisciplinary workshop week also included inter-campus mobility — for both students and teaching staff — between IED Barcelona, IED Kunsthal Bilbao and IED Madrid.
The Workshop Week concluded on Friday 6 February with an exhibition showcasing the outcomes of the workshops at IED Barcelona’s Point One campus.
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