FESTIVAL. “World Design Street Festival”
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The World Design Street Festival is the celebration of World Design Capital Valencia 2022 in the streets of the city, with the aim of opening design to the general public. An activity that aims to promote design and its protagonists with enthusiasm and commitment, foster local pride, and celebrate the designation of the city as World Design Capital, while at the same time didactic about the importance of design in people’s lives. It is an opportunity to involve society, attract international visitors, show the importance of design, educate about it and fill the city with installations, workshops, exhibitions, studio openings and overflowing creativity.
In this special year in which Valencia is World Design Capital, the World Design Street Festival brings together the activities of Feria Hábitat València, Valencia Disseny Week (of the Designers Association of the Valencian Community), Miradors de l’Horta, Open House Valencia, Abierto València, the Ensems Festival of contemporary music and Valencia City Council’s European Mobility Week, in addition to a whole program of activities organized by World Design Capital Valencia 2022 in collaboration with various partner companies and institutions.
“Feria Hábitat València”
20-23 September
The benchmark fair in the furniture sector will open its doors from September 20 to 23 at Feria València under the umbrella of World Design Capital Valencia 2022 with an extensive program of activities and exhibitors. Feria Hábitat València arrives with a substantial increase in exhibition space and the incorporation of the kitchen (Espacio Cocina SICI) and home textiles (Home Textiles Premium by Textilhogar) sectors. In total, almost 90,000 square meters and close to 1,000 national and international brands will be exhibited at Feria Valencia in a highly attractive edition.
The World Design Capital Valencia 2022 Forum will host, in turn, a program of conferences, lectures and meetings of designers of the stature of Tomás Alía, Pascua Ortega Mónica Armani or Lázaro Rosa Violan in which to highlight the most international Valencian design; while the evenings and nights of the fair will have their meeting point in Àgora València, with three Offs de feria that will connect the city and the fair space.
“Open Walks by Open House València”
19-26 September
The Open House Valencia -OHV- festival is a privileged appointment of the city with its most precious architecture. A multitude of buildings open their doors, exhibiting their functional, typological and formal uniqueness. On the occasion of the World Design Street Festival, there will be a preview of this festival, which traditionally takes place in October, opening certain buildings of the city of Valencia and showing the architectural universe, its history and cultural diversity.
“Miradors de l’horta”
September 23rd- Octuber 9th
The design and culture festival Miradors de l’horta joins World Design Street Festival. From September 23 to October 9, l’horta nord of the Carraixet region will be filled with ephemeral installations that will reflect on sustainable development, food sovereignty and the relationship between agricultural and urban territories.
This new edition of the festival is born under the concept of the future of food and defends the vegetable garden as a response to it with guided tours of the facilities, meetings and talks with professionals in food design, innovation, gastronomy and the garden, augmented reality exhibition, tastings, workshops and live music. A festival that looks to the orchard and transfers to it the talent and creativity of studios such as Badallar, Elsa Yranzo Food Design, Borealis, Gimeno Gràfic + Lebrel, La Cuarta Piel, Resto and students from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
“European Mobility Week”
September 16 to 22
The European Mobility Week (EMW) is organized annually by the European Commission from September 16 to 22, with the last day, September 22, coinciding with the “City without my car!” campaign. Since its launch, this European initiative has sought to improve public health and quality of life by promoting clean mobility and sustainable urban transport. The aim of this campaign is to give European local authorities and other actors the opportunity to expose the challenges that each of them has adopted to face urban challenges of the 21st century, such as air pollution, test new measures, make visible the benefits of choosing active modes or public transport and receive feedback from the user public.
“Abierto València 2022”
23-30 September
The art galleries also join the World Design Street Festival in the tenth anniversary of “Abierto València”, organized by LAVAC, the Association of Contemporary Art Galleries of the Valencian Community, with a program of activities and routes through the main art galleries of the city of Valencia and with exclusive meetings in different venues of the city.
As in previous editions, there will be an afternoon of common opening of all the galleries, the IVAM talks, and the acquisitions will be awarded by different entities. In addition to the ARCO Gallery Walk routes, organized by ARCO, new routes will be added during the week following the opening weekend of the galleries, thus expanding the presence of the galleries in the city.
“ENSEMS Festival”
September 16 to 25
From September 16 to 25, different spaces in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante will be filled with contemporary music to celebrate the 44th edition of the Festival de Música Contemporánea de València under the title “Finestres”, and part of its program is included in the Street Festival, at the Àgora València. Paraphrasing Joan Fuster in the year of the centenary of his birth, in his first essay, El descrédito de la realidad (1955), it represents a metaphorical allusion to different concepts related to the way in which he questioned himself about the meaning of existence and life. All this will be the common thread of a music program throughout the Valencian Community.
“Valencia Disseny Week 2022”
19-23 September
València Disseny Week (#VDW) is an open and participatory initiative of the ADCV to give visibility to design and bring it closer to society. It includes actions to promote the sector and activities related to design and creativity organized by the ADCV, professionals and studios.
València Disseny Week has a hybrid format, with face-to-face and streaming activities, which will take place in different locations, ‘Design Walks’ and open days in design studios of the Comunitat Valenciana, to give visibility to their work and organizational processes to all types of public.
The design and culture festival Miradors de l’horta joins World Design Street Festival. From September 23 to October 9, l’horta nord of the Carraixet region will be filled with ephemeral installations that will reflect on sustainable development, food sovereignty and the relationship between agricultural and urban territories.
This new edition of the festival is born under the concept of the future of food and defends the vegetable garden as a response to it with guided tours of the facilities, meetings and talks with professionals in food design, innovation, gastronomy and the garden, augmented reality exhibition, tastings, workshops and live music. A festival that looks to the orchard and transfers to it the talent and creativity of studios such as Badallar, Elsa Yranzo Food Design, Borealis, Gimeno Gràfic + Lebrel, La Cuarta Piel, Resto and students from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
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