With the guidance of active design expert professionals and IED alumni, 400 students were able to discover new playful approaches to the world of design over four and a half days
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We played Design
Date
12 February 2024
The concept of play in the field of design was the pivotal point of interest around which revolved a new edition of the Multidisciplinary Workshop Week – We Play Design, held at IED Barcelona from 5 to 9 February.
Nearly 400 undergraduate students participated during the week in 23 multidisciplinary workshops that tested their creativity and helped them to experiment and expand their knowledge in other areas of design. With the guidance of active design expert professionals and IED alumni, they were able to discover new playful approaches to the world of design over four and a half days.
Among other topics, the workshops addressed everything from the creation of interactive pieces related to the upcoming Paris Olympic Games to the design of decks of cards by combining art with creativity. And also the ideation of visual video games in the age of AI and the production of Frankenstein-like dolls (packaging included) representing the creative universe itself.
Other workshops explored various ways of drawing associated with play based on sensitive experiences, investigating the most creative versions of makeup, playing with the poetry of lighting design and also designing sex toys based on redefining new forms of pleasure.
The results obtained by the students in this multidisciplinary project were displayed across IED’s four floors in an exhibition that featured the final projects. The show also brought together the Scalextric work of second-year Transportation Design students for their Styling Project subject, in which they worked on redesigning great automotive classics and adapting them to a Scalextric scale.
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