Barcelona, guest city at the Hong Kong Business of Design Week
Barcelona will be the first guest city at the forthcoming Hong Kong Business of Design Week on the first week of December. The project is promoted by the City Council of Barcelona and coordinated by the Institut Ramon LLull, with the strategic involvement of BCD Barcelona Design Centre, FAD Fostering Arts and Design and the Catalonia Trade & Investment from the Catalan Government.
From 2006 to 2009, BCD was curating, with the support of the Barcelona City Council, a Barcelona Design Pavilion at the IDT Expo during the Business of Design Week. Six years later, we are back at the BODW as a Guest City.
Under the claim Barcelona Inspires Design, the pavilion will present the Barcelona to the audience and will house a couple of exhibitions and a networking space for the twenty companies from the Design Business Trade Mission.
BCD has curated the Barcelona Inspires Design Exhibition, a small selection of seventeen diverse objects by companies or designers based in Barcelona from four main sectors: household goods, sports, fashion accessories and industrial. Most of them have been internationally recognised by prestigious design awards.
The selection aims to showcase companies and designers already selling their products or services in Hong Kong, so visitors may find them familiar. It also aims to be a powerful platform for those wishing to do business in the Hong Kong market and be introduced to a broad design audience during Design Week.
The companies & designers participating at the exhibition are: Gemma Bernal, design; Ànima Barcelona; BD Barcelona Design; Brand Your Shoes; Carpyen; Dosnoventa Bikes; Grifone; Grotesque Shoes; Mediclinics; Mobles 114 editions; nanimarquina; Roca; RS Barcelona; Santa & Cole; Stimulo Design; Simon and Tous.
Design Business Trade Mission at the BODW
Twenty companies from Barcelona’s area take part in the Design Business Trade Mission organized by BCD with the support of the Barcelona City Council and the Catalan Government (ACCIÓ). These companies are the following: 4-id design network; Ànima Barcelona; BD Barcelona Design; Brand Your Shoes; Carpyen; Dear Design; Domestic Data Streamers; Dosnoventa Bikes; El Nan; Gemma Bernal, design; Grifone; Grotesque Shoes; Innou; Mediclinics; Mobles 114 editions; RS Barcelona; Siarq Advanced Solar Design; Stimulo Design; Workplane Design; Zebra Design and Retail.
The program of Barcelona as Guest City will be including also twenty international recognized speakers at the Business of Design Week, some parallel seminars with the collaboration of ESADE Business School and Barcelona Tourism, among others, and the One Day Design Challenge event organized by Roca at the PMQ.
Isabel Roig
Managing Director
BCD Barcelona Design Centre
About BCD: BCD promotes the role of design in the creation of social and economic value. With more than 150 business members, BCD runs programs on design-driven innovation, creative entrepreneurship and design export among others. BCD organises the Barcelona Design Week since 2006.