PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & DESIGNERS
Futurity systems
Futurity Systems is a future-focused design and deeptech firm using data science and artificial intelligence to shape the future. FST's unique approach combines scientific rigor with an imaginative design, enabling organizations to navigate uncertainties and build better futures at scale.
Futurity Systems, a young company with a mighty vision, is already making waves in the industry. In just two years, they have won numerous awards, including being honoree of Fast Company the Innovation by Design Award 2022 - Experimental, Gold Lovie Award - Weird and Experimental, Design Intelligence Award, Celo Community Award, and more. CEO Cecilia Tham has also been recognized with the AWS Global Disruptor Award and the UN Women Entrepreneur Day Pioneer Award.
normals
N O R M A L S is a Berlin-based studio for design, fiction, and futures. Their practice aims to extend the field of perceived possibles by challenging collective imaginaries and prototyping original, tangible visions away from gloomy predictions and overused tropes. These explorations are shaped into stories, objects, graphics, radio plays, software, experiences, workshops, fictional lectures, and other thought experiments. Backed by a constant authorship practice, they develop their own methods, which become the backbone of a client-facing practice of futures envisioning, design, and coaching services.
ESPAI PUNTAL
Victor and Markel, the humans behind Puntal came together with a common idea: perhaps the functioning of food systems was related to the pandemic crisis, changing it all. This idea matured into a concrete project: to set up a restaurant that, in addition to providing food and drink to its customers, could become an agent of change.
In their words, "Climate crisis, tourist overcrowding and job insecurity are three phenomena in which the hotel and catering industry has a decisive influence. Aware of this reality, our restaurant had to be able to propose a new way of acting".
BASC
Barcelona's art scene has been shaken by the arrival of the emerging movement known as BASC . This collective of artists is transforming the way art is experienced, challenging traditional formats and immersing the viewer in immersive experiences. Its most notable feature is the "Basqueadas", curated gastronomic meetings where art and gastronomy merge, transcending the conventional exhibition space. Inspired by the principles of "social practice", BASC creates spaces for critical thinking in which the diner takes on an active role in the experience.