A February full of activities at DHub

The month of February arrives at the Disseny Hub Barcelona packed with new activities for all audiences: new family workshops, talks and conferences, guided visits, and exhibitions!

Workshop: Sweeping Close to Home!

This family activity invites participants to rediscover the hand broom made of plant fibers as an everyday object full of possibilities. The experience begins with a visit to the exhibition Matter Matters. Designing with the World, where children will learn about objects made from natural materials and understand how they are transformed into useful and beautiful tools.
Afterwards, in a hands-on workshop led by the DHub education team and conceived by Ona Trepat, participants will create their own small broom using knots and ingenuity. A proposal to learn, create, and play, aimed at children aged 6 to 12.

Sundays, from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Llum BCN:

The most important light arts festival in Europe, transforming Poblenou into a beacon of light within the city. Don’t miss the installations and proposals at the DHub!

• Serres, Cabosanroque
• Aquesta nit, Albert Serra
• Al voltant, Gracias Grecia
• Inspired in Barcelona: Luce, Stefano Colli and Carles Novell

Dates: February 6 and 7

Architects’ Design. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from Barcelona

Within the framework of the World Capital of Architecture 2026, the Disseny Hub Barcelona and the Design History Foundation present a new cycle of conferences and dialogues dedicated to exploring the living relationship between architecture and design. Under the title Architects’ Design. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from Barcelona, the program investigates the contribution of key figures in Barcelona architecture to design, from the late 19th century to the present day.

• Screening of Dios lo ve, a documentary about Òscar Tusquets, with the participation of directors Àlex Guimerà and Guillem Ventura. The film explores Tusquets’ relationship with the city, his references, his creative obsessions, and the thread that connects all facets of his work. Tuesday, February 10, 5:45 pm

Elisava Masters’ Talks | Karel Martens & Thomas Castro

The meeting is based on the exhibition Karel Martens: Unbound, a major retrospective dedicated to Martens’ work and curated by Castro at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. During the session, both speakers will conduct a flip-through of nearly 200 pages of Martens’ work, inviting the audience to join an open conversation full of anecdotes, reflections, and unpublished materials from his personal archive.

This session is aimed at students, professionals, and anyone interested in graphic design, visual culture, and contemporary creative processes, reinforcing the DHub’s commitment as a space for meeting, thinking, and debate around design.

Conference in English
Date: Wednesday, 11/02, 7:30 pm

Open Doors for Santa Eulàlia

On the occasion of the Santa Eulàlia festivities, the Disseny Hub Barcelona opens its doors so everyone can enjoy design in all its forms. Throughout the day, visitors can freely access the permanent exhibitions of the Design Museum–DHub, which offer a journey through history and material culture via graphic design, product design, fashion, and decorative arts.

An opportunity to discover (or rediscover) and experience the DHub during a festive day open to all.

Date: Thursday, February 12

ADGDay | Ethics in Design

The Disseny Hub Barcelona hosts a new edition of ADGDay, an open day of reflection and debate dedicated to exploring how ethics manifest and can be fostered in design practice. Organized by ADG-FAD, this event is a space for dialogue for professionals, students, organizations, and people interested in design culture and visual communication.

Key topics addressed during the session include:

• Transparency and fairness in public calls for design services.
• Working conditions and precarity within the profession.
• The role of social design and its commitment to the common good.
• The relationship between authorship and artificial intelligence in creative processes.

Date: February 16, from 4 pm to 9 pm

Sustainable Challenge

An international program of experimentation in sustainable fashion that explores new ways to repair, transform, and give garments a second life. Guided by curator Amy Twigger, the project imagines a speculative fashion system in which mending, repairing, and reusing become central creative practices.

The exhibition also includes some of the transformations created during the project’s second challenge: interventions on personal garments contributed by attendees of the inaugural masterclass, focused specifically on creative repair in fashion.

Dates: 18/02 – 06/04

Barcelona Fashion Forward

A program that supports and mentors emerging fashion designers and brands, helping them optimize processes and methods while incorporating strategies to improve professionalization in areas such as marketing, communication, and digitalization through training sessions, personalized mentoring, and various professional services.

Open call until 01/03.