When the principles of functionalism began to enter into crisis, Disueño opened a space of freedom for a type of product halfway between art and industrial design, between popular crafts, irony and utopia.

Disueño was a contest that was presented in parallel to the Delta Awards between 1977 and 1979. At a time when the principles of functionalism were beginning to enter into crisis, this initiative opened up a space of freedom for a type of new product that was difficult to find. define, halfway between art and industrial design, between popular crafts and postmodern irony, and between criticism of production systems and proposals for utopian furniture for a new society.
Despite its brevity, the three editions of Disueño represent a change in the conception of the designer profession, which made possible the existence in Spain of a poetic, artistic and even subversive design that would end up modifying the taste for design throughout the world. country, between the anti-consumerism of the radical design of the sixties and the postmodernity of the eighties.

Based on an in-depth study of the archives and interviews with those who devised and participated in Disueño (Santiago Roqueta, Beth Galí, Lluís Pau, Carles Riart, Juma, Studi Per), Pepa Bueno brings together and puts into context the works that were presented at the contest. This publication allows us to rescue a crucial episode of Barcelona design that had been relegated to oblivion.

A brief epilogue traces the news in search of the traces of Disueño, and detects how the attitude of the Disueño participants (an attitude that lies between the committed, the subversive and the irreverent) has remained present in Barcelona design, and He is found on the current scene, in works such as those of Sara de Ubieta, Cristian Herrera, Guillermo Santomà or Takk, among others.

Hard cover
Castilian
27 x 21.5cm
350 color images
200pp.