5 must-sees at Madrid Design Festival 2025

The national design festival returns with Madrid Design Festival 2025: in its eighth edition it presents nearly 200 activities, twenty exhibitions and more than eighty OFF spaces, Open Studios and showrooms. From Connections by Finsa we select our five unmissable events from the entire programme so that you can Redesign the world, this year’s motto in which Berlin will be the guest city.

Two National Design Awards turn the desk around

Is it possible to give a twist to the classic desk? Two National Design Award winners, the creator Inma Bermúdez and the furniture manufacturer Sancal, created Suricata Party, a modular equipment model that plays with the customization offered by digital printing boards on wood. You will be able to see it from February 12 at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, within the Madrid Fiesta Design 2025 program.

Challenges and opportunities of collaboration from matter to design

We also recommend that you don’t miss the talk on February 19 at 6pm at Madrid Design PRO in which these two National Design Award winners (Inma Bermúdez and Sancal) will talk with Finsa to propose ways of collaborating between product and furniture manufacturers and creative profiles with the aim of devising versatile solutions for constantly changing spaces.

Company + institutions + designers = Design à trois

Another event recommendation that will explore collaboration between different stakeholders involved in design is Design à trois, a proposal in which private companies, the Community of Madrid and design professionals will hold conversations to assess ways of working together. It will take place on February 17 and 18 at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza.

Arquetipos: much more than architecture

Architecture is often developed with other disciplines: industrial design, furniture design, but also with art, fashion or goldsmithing. Until February 28, you can see the exhibition Arquetipos at MATCOAM, which reflects on this issue through pieces such as this Catrina from the TENDER collection by Izaskun Chinchilla Architects. By the way, another of the pieces from this collection, the Fossil Chair, will be at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza as part of Madrid Fiesta Design.

Weaving sustainability with tradition

Basketmaker Idoia Cuesta is offering a workshop at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza on February 14 for students from the School of Architecture and Design at IE University to design headdresses using traditional techniques, using wood veneer, to discover the creative limits of this material. This workshop will include an afternoon session open to the public so you can learn about traditional textile and basketry craft tools.