This interactive session invites critical reflection on Barcelona Design Week’s binding theme of Creative Resilience. The aim is to formulate three big groups of questions that are key for the design process that engages resilience. In many design settings, resilience is cast by default as a desirable specification. In the practice of service design, resilience is often used as a measure of success. We keep using that words ‘resilience' but does it really mean what we think it means?

BDW’s curator Alessandro Manetti, designer, artist and activist Mushon Zer-Aviv, and critical futures scholar Maya Van Leemput take a step back to ask what needs to be resilient? What does not? What threats do we see that resilience might be measured against? And what images of the future do we measure against? Plain and simple, what do you want to see in the future and what not? What might break and what not? And what is worth salvaging from the present?

You, the audience, will be asked to actively think with the panel throughout the conversation. Together we list the questions that matter.