EXHIBITION. “Comboi: Winner project at the 2021 Villareal design workshop”

The municipality of Vila-real has been holding a design workshop for five years, which has already given very good results and is fully consolidated. As an example, the project called “Comboi”, awarded in the previous edition with its construction, which will be presented in the Agora of World Design Capital Valencia 2022 next November 28 at 1:00 p.m and will remain on display until December 11. Its authors are the team of students of the Product Design specialty of the EASD Castelló, composed by:

• Enric Bellmunt
• Magda Cimpoca
• Mateo Felip
• Paula Juan
• Alfred Segarra
• Emma Such
• Juan José Valverde

Tutored by the following teachers of the EASD Castelló: Carmela Forés, Paula Algueró, Vicent Juli Iborra and Marina García-Broch.

In the fourth edition, teams had to design an information point for the green areas of the city of Vila-real, as an element of street furniture that could become a landmark, a recognizable element of the city, and with a vocation of permanence, not ephemeral.
This is a collaborative project between local public administration/academia/private enterprise/citizenship that aims to train students through the creation of artistic pieces of street furniture or ephemeral art to be placed in public spaces in the city and municipal buildings. It has been made in Krion, and built in Vila-real by the company Robles Exhibition Systems.

This project includes the holding of creative and educational workshops, taught by design professionals and aimed at students of the EASD Schools in specialties related to interior design or product design, among others. A hundred students from these areas participate in the project in each edition. The EASD València signed a collaboration agreement with the city council of Vila-real for this purpose.
The challenge to overcome is to focus all the potential of creativity and capacity of the design students of the Design Schools and the enormous potential of the urban environment of Vila-real to serve as a reference to this creativity, thus collaborating in a direct way in the training of these young people through innovative projects. It is worth mentioning that Vila-real has the recognition and city brands as Educating City and City of Science and Innovation (city brands granted by the Government of Spain).