This session will focus on one of the themes of the New European Bauhaus: Regaining a sense of belonging. The speakers will discuss how festivals and other creative initiatives can foster this feeling in local communities and how international visitors perceive it.

The speakers will be: Álvaro Gómez-Sellés, Architect, musing-sellés (NYC-Madrid), Anna Valtonen, Professor of Strategic Design at Aalto University (Finland), Adrian Jankowiak, Founder of Nairobi Design Week (Nairobi, Kenya), Xavier Torras, Communications Director at Roca Group (Barcelona), Mariana Eidler, Co-founder of FORK (Barcelona) and Ewa Chudeka, Manager of a Design Center & Gdynia Design Days (Gdynia, Poland).

Date: 10 June 2022, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Place: Roca Barcelona Gallery and online. Session in English.

Organized by: BcD. With the collaboration of BEDA and World Design Weeks.