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Weaving networks. Wool. Vanishing heritage.
For centuries, wool has been one of the greatest sources of wealth, pride and social value in our country. However, today it faces a critical moment.
This project is a call to recover a legacy, highlight the value of a sustainable resource and give it back the place it has traditionally and culturally occupied in Spain.A key project for the country that involves much more than the recovery of a cultural tradition: it also involves the recovery of a sector, the livestock and wool textile production sector, and focuses on an activity with a marked sustainable character and conservation of the biodiversity of species on livestock routes.
At Madrid Design Festival, and under the title Weaving Networks. Wool. Vanishing heritage we are carrying out a transversal exercise to highlight and make visible the role of design in the face of specific social issues. We began this exercise in the last edition with an approach to depopulation and a focus on rural environments as centres of creation.
In this edition, we focus our attention on wool. As a festival we want to create a space in which, through design, its agents can intervene in this reality and take advantage of the great speaker that this meeting offers to make visible and contribute to the necessary change.
We are launching this claim to recover a legacy, to highlight the value of a sustainable resource and to give it back the place that it has traditionally and culturally occupied in Spain. This is a key project for the country that involves much more than the recovery of a cultural tradition: it also involves the recovery of a sector, the livestock and textile wool production sector, and puts the focus on an activity with a marked sustainable character and the conservation of the biodiversity of the species on livestock routes.
With this initiative we want to invite design professionals, artists, companies, institutions and citizens to join this movement to protect and revalue Spanish wool.
Project promoters
Professor in the
Master's Program La Fabrica.
Management of cultural projects.
The Master´s Program La Fábrica. Management of cultural projects, offers a complete overview of the professional environment of culture, public and private organisations and different profiles, with the help of more than one hundred outstanding professionals with whom you will expand your contact list.
The content of the programme in the classroom is structured in 4 modules that cover the entire process of developing a cultural project. It is completed with the hours dedicated to professional visits, project tutorials and professional internships. The classes take place at La Fábrica’s facilities.
What it is
A complete immersion course in La Fábrica’s projects, with the help of its protagonists, group work sessions and professional internships at La Fábrica, plus your individual work on a supervised personal project. A complete, updated and in-depth tour of the key issues for managing a cultural project, based on real and current cases.
For whom
Aimed at professionals who develop their careers working in cultural organisations or practising their profession as freelancers; to cultural entrepreneurs who want to start their own project and to professionals with experience in other fields who want to reorient themselves towards culture.
Approach
Share with you the 25 years of experience of La Fábrica, in a program with a very practical orientation. The students, in very small groups, get to know the La Fábrica team and a hundred outstanding professionals from its list of collaborators: directors of cultural organizations, public administrations, sponsors, commissioners, designers, producers, creators, media…
With them they go through all the steps necessary to develop a cultural project, covering the design and production of content, the programming of activities, their communication and marketing and their financing..
Pre-opening of the Madrid Design Festival
Madrid, February 5, 2025
An unforgettable meeting. What a joy! As every year at this time, Madrid becomes the capital of the design world. Tonight I had the pleasure of being invited by Madrid Design Festival 25 to the pre-opening cocktail party of the Festival. I love these events where we meet friends, collaborators, design lovers. It is the starting shot to meet again in all the activities with which Madrid Design Festival 25 surprises us every year. Thanks to its director @alvaromatias_, you outdo yourself every year, to @pilarlleo his right hand, to @javibardon and @oscar_lafabrica and to the whole team of @lafabrica_ Thank you for the effort and congratulations for making all of us who work in culture feel like “family”. You are the best!
Presentation of the second edition of the book Artesanía No Prato at the FITUR pavilion
24 January 2025
The presentation took place at FITUR, ON January 24, 2024 in the Galicia pavilion.
Mr. Gabriel Alén. Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs of the Xunta de Galicia, as well as Ms. Elena Fabeiro. Xerente Galician Crafts Foundation
Podcast: Spanish craftsmanship today, with WordPressCourse
A very pleasant talk about the situation of Spanish craftsmanship. How it came into this world, its evolution and current situation. Thanks Jerzy.
Workshops: New Crafts for New Ecologies
Chantada, Lugo. Galicia, September 21 and 22, 2024
Galician Crafts Public Foundation is organizing the “New crafts for new ecologies” conference, in collaboration with Espacio Vilaseco, which took place in San Cristovo de Mouricios (Chantada, Lugo) on September 21 and 22. This meeting will focus on the potential of the rural environment as a generator of new avenues for future cultural, social, environmental and economic development and will discuss tradition, design and innovation, biomaterials, trades, local resources, ecology and the circular economy.
The conferences are curated by Raquel Buj, architect and designer specialized in research and experimentation with materials and biofabrication for fashion; and by Carlos Jiménez Cenamor, ceramist and architect, winner of the 2023 Artisan Product Award at the Crafts Awards of the Region of Murcia. The speakers are characterized by their research work on materials, traditional crafts and their hybridization with contemporary techniques and technologies.
I had the pleasure of coordinating the “DIVERSE ECOLOGIES TABLE” with the presentations of the designers/researchers and creators:
Maria Mallo (Madrid)
Paula Bruna (Barcelona)
Attua Aparicio (Valladolid/London)
