Barcelona Design Week 2025

Creative Resilience: Design as a Language of Resistance and Renewal

From October 7 to 17, Barcelona celebrates the 20th anniversary of Barcelona Design Week, turning the city into an open creative laboratory. Over 130 activities — exhibitions, talks, and installations — explore the theme “Creative Resilience,” reflecting on design’s power to adapt, renew, and inspire collective vision in times of profound change.

The official opening, hosted at the Roca Barcelona Gallery, sets the tone with a conversation between Andrés Reisinger and Isern Serra, two emblematic voices of contemporary design. Reisinger also presents Arcadia: A Journey Through the 21st-Century Existential Crisis, an immersive project that delves into the fragility and beauty of our time.

Among the highlights, Underground BDW (October 15–17) returns as a platform for experimental and sustainable design practices. Within the Parking Gallery by LCI Barcelona, 26 local and international projects engage with sustainability, material innovation, and new collaborative models.

At the DHub, Inspired in Barcelona: Luce, curated by Antoni Arola, explores the dialogue between light, craftsmanship, and self-production. Alongside it, exhibitions on industrial design, sustainable fashion, and urban photography portray the multifaceted identity of Catalan creativity.

On Saturday, October 11, Disseny en Diagonal transforms Avinguda Diagonal into an experiential route through showrooms, galleries, and international brands offering open activities, performances, and talks that blend art, taste, and design culture.

With the support of partners such as Roca, Cervezas Alhambra, Kave Home, Simon, Cosentino, WMF, and NTT Data, BDW 2025 reaffirms Barcelona as a global epicentre of design — a place where creativity becomes not just aesthetic expression, but an act of resilience and vision for the future.