Dezeen promotion: establishing a community design centre and creating new design training schools are some of the long-term goals set by the team behind Valencia's winning World Design Capital 2022 bid.
With just over a year to go before the World Design Capital title is passed from Lille Metropole to Valencia, the organising committee is finalising its year-long programme of events.
In addition, it is establishing some longer-term projects that will contribute to social wellbeing and sustainable economic development in the region.
Valencia won the bid to become World Design Capital 2022 on account of its longstanding design legacy
The committee hopes that the impact of these initiatives will be felt far beyond 2022 and across fields as diverse as politics, education, urban planning, communication, tourism, innovation, culture and the economy. "The year prior to being design capital is the time to implement projects, to give the programme an international diffusion and begin to attract the attention of the general public beyond our borders," said the team, which is made up of a group of professionals and entrepreneurs from the Associació València Capital del Disseny.
"We believe in design as a fundamental vehicle with which to improve people's quality of life, activate innovation in the short term and generate systemic change in societies in the long term."
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