EXHIBITION. “Diseñando Lo Por Venir. Seven experiences of design for social inclusion”

The design for social innovation, brings a dimension of hope, of a future that we think has to be diverse and inclusive, capable of promoting a social and collective transformation that is effective, linked to health and improvement of quality of life.

The IDECART project for World Design Capital Valencia 2022 is about creativity, design and art therapy and this exhibition will show the process that has generated a space for communication, relationship and insertion. It has given voice to imagine viable solutions, to take advantage of the available social energy, as Ezio Manzini would say.

The work between design and art therapy professionals and people with health, social, cultural and/or educational difficulties has allowed design to be a tool for improving the quality of life of all.

The co-design workshops in different entities such as the Novaterra Foundation, Koopera, with groups of minors from the association Iniciatives Solidàries or Fem Salut Mental, have generated proposals for models of change with continuity, this is not only for World Design Capital Valencia 2022, but because the quality of the final product opens a door of opportunities for insertion into the labor market and the creation of a factory of creation in design focused on social inclusion.
This exhibition allows to visualize from a critical, creative and practical perspective, both the process with achievements and difficulties as well as the results of creative development projects for the inclusion of diversity.