16-26.10.2024.

Design for Human Future

The Barcelona Design Week 2024, which will celebrate its 19th edition from October 16th to 26th, returns with the theme Design for Human Future focusing on water.

Barcelona, a city facing an unprecedented water scarcity emergency, becomes the perfect setting for reflection to explore how design can contribute to accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the construction of a future in balance between the planet and human beings.

The Barcelona Design Week will be an opportunity to inspire, educate, and mobilize the local and global community, showing how design and creativity, applied with awareness, can be a powerful tool to address the critical challenge of water management and conservation.

The Design for Human Future Conference, on October 17th and 18th, will tackle the water scarcity problem through talks and round tables, and will present innovative cases and design proposals to improve the situation.  The conference will include a Next Gen Design workshop on Circular Economy and 2 Talks.

Other activities such as the ROCA One Day Design Challenge addressed to young designers or the Next Gen Design urban installation to sensibilize the citizens will be part of the What if… water movement.