Design students exhibit at Matadero Madrid

Nora Fernandez Fernandez 

The activity was carried out with the collaboration of DIMAD (Association of Designers of Madrid) and Mayrit Bienal, an architecture and design platform promoted by the Community of Madrid.  

According to Luisa Walliser, coordinator of the Comprehensive Design and Comprehensive Management degree, “For the exhibition we have started from the one organized for the Science Week with the same objective and we have made a version 2.0”. “When the opportunity arose, we saw that it was a very good space and an opportunity to make visible both the degree and the work that is carried out from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities”, he adds.  

The exhibition, named [Almost] Everything is Design, is a selection of works by Design students from different subjects and what is intended with it "is to show that everything that surrounds us is designed, badly or well, but always there is a mind that has thought that and has materialized it in what we see and use”, Walliser qualifies.  

The sample includes of the different lines covered by the Degree: graphic design, space design, image management or object design. Among other projects, part of the pieces that were part of the furniture design exhibition called 'Amueblame', coordinated by the professor of the Degree in Integral Design, Víctor Armas, has been integrated into this new version of the exhibition..

On the other hand, the exhibition also houses the result of the activity of ApS Re-Creo, which revolves around raising awareness about consumption and sustainability, especially in the world of fashion and design. Thus, various fabrics and printed canvas donated by Mayrit Bienal have been used, with which a collaborative tapestry has been made, "ensuring that the exhibition was assembled entirely with recycled material", adds Walliser.  

The results of the exhibition "have been very good and the activity has aroused great expectations among the people of the neighbourhood", according to the coordinator of the Degree in Design. In general, "the experience has been very cool and has involved both teachers and students around design to awaken that critical and optimistic look at the environment that surrounds us," she comments.