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From this Monday, II Biennial of Design of Havana
20May
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From this Monday, II Biennial of Design of Havana

Hours before the official opening, scheduled for today at the Chaplin Cinema, the II Havana Design Biennial began its activities at the Hispano-American Cultural Center, where the theoretical segment of the event will take place until the 24th that develops under the concept Beyond the form.

The projection of the audiovisual Elogio a la restauracion y la verdad, produced by the Office of the City Historian, with a script by Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler himself, served as a preamble to the first meeting of the conclave, dedicated in a special way to the 500th anniversary of the foundation of San Cristóbal de La Habana.

When speaking before the audience, composed of a representation of more than two hundred delegates from about twenty countries participating in the event sponsored by the National Office of Design, ONDI, Gisela Herrero García, head of that entity, referred to the way in which prestigious professionals in the field have always been present in the restoration work of the oldest part of the city.

Likewise, he emphasized the integral nature of the work carried out for decades by the team led by Dr. Leal Spengler, who "for his commendable work of preserving the values ​​of Cuban identity and his history" was given in this opportunity of the Honorific Design Management Award 2019, which received on its behalf Katia Cárdenas, Director of Cultural Management of the OHC.

 

 II Biennial of Design of Havana

 

Subsequently, Herrero García gave the lecture entitled Beyond the form ... the experience, in which he drew attention to the importance of not overlooking in the specialty the set of knowledge acquired by humanity since time immemorial, in order that the proposals of the designers go beyond the purely aesthetic to also take into account other values ​​such as its functional nature, the use that will be given to them, the context in which they have to emerge and their impact on the market.

Also, prior to the official opening of the event, this Monday was opened in the Sala Cernuda of the Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura the Nicaraguan exhibition designs, with works by six designers integrated to the homonymous platform that promotes this specialty in the Central American country; while in the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba it was open to the public that under the title Beyond the form groups works of several professionals of the Bigger Antilles.

After its closure on the 26th in the capital, from June 4 to 7, the X International Design Congress of Form 2019 will be held, BDHabana will move its headquarters to the city of Santiago de Cuba from May 30 to June 2, and that of Camagüey from the 13th to the 16th of the same month.