Experimenting, creating and conceptualising, but also critically reflecting on the relationships between art, design and gastronomy was the aim of this edition
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The IED Barcelona Multidisciplinary Workshop Week brings together Art, Design and Gastronomy
Date
20 February 2025
Playing, experimenting and conceptualising, but also critically reflecting on the relationships between art, design and gastronomy was the aim of the latest edition of IED Barcelona’s Multidisciplinary Workshop Week (MWW).
Held from 3 to 7 February, this annual activity brought together around 400 degree and Erasmus students, mixing academic years and disciplines to work together as a community in some of the 24 scheduled workshops, as well as explore different approaches in the interaction of these three concepts from a creative perspective.
An experience led by a wide variety of professionals from whom students have learnt everything from new techniques and tools to discover and amplify the artistic possibilities of food and take them to another level, to imagining future scenarios in which to develop creative strategies to implement disruptive innovation projects in the field of food design.
Students designed a snack representative of Barcelona in 2025 using the Food Thinking methodology, as well as shoes with fruit and recycled soles; created products and accessories to complement the ritual of preparing a cup of coffee; worked on new concepts for bread-object; discovered the functional and aesthetic possibilities of glass in the creation of tableware; embroidered on fruits and vegetables; and created new typographies based on the connections established between sound and gastronomy, among other activities. And all of this with an emphasis on zero waste.
The final results of the workshops have been exhibited in a joint exhibition at the Point One facilities of IED Barcelona.
With the collaboration of Aloha, Syra Coffee and La Bella Lola from Barcelona Beer Company.
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MWW opens its doors to the Alumni community
This year, the MWW also included a special workshop aimed at IED Barcelona’s Alumni community. Under the title ‘Your career, your design’, it was taught by alumnus Carolina Erize (she studied the Master in Interaction Design), who invited participants to carry out an exercise in planning their professional career in the short, medium and long term, based on the work of tangible strategies that would allow them to identify opportunities, position themselves in the market and open up new paths to the future.
Professors of the Multidisciplinary Workshop Week together with IED Barcelona academic staff and Andrea Marchesi, director of IED Barcelona.
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