Porto Design Biennale
The leading Portuguese event in the field of Design.
About Biennale
The Porto Design Biennale, initiated in 2019, is an event to foster debate and welcome concerns and multiple perspectives on design, championing new discourses and practices that enhance design's prospective ability to outline innovative solutions for collective problems.
Design is a discipline, that also operates as a revealing action verb. In this sense, Design has been asserting itself as an area of great importance for societies, playing a fundamental role in creating new social, political, cultural, and environmental paradigms.
This major event, promoted in collaboration between two municipalities (Porto and Matosinhos) and organized by esad—idea, seeks to create a platform for dialogue between civil society, academia, industry, national and international cultural institutions, and agents. With a commitment to the territory and local identities, valuing craftsmanship and materiality, Porto Design Biennale conveys broad-spectrum thinking and involvement, starting from the surrounding context and dynamics to generate speculation and debate on global issues.
Porto Design Biennale