BCNDesign

Having lived and worked in London for almost a decade and a half, I’m now moving my operational base to my hometown of Barcelona, from which I will shuttle regularly to Berlin and London to take care of business and stuff.  I’m excited and looking forward to re-discovering my city, re-engaging with it both personally and professionally. I must also confess to a certain degree of trepidation – one can never really ‘come back’. The Barcelona I left behind is gone for good. I’ve kept track of things and people while I’ve been living in the UK, and writing a book on design in Barcelona has certainly helped, but I’m sure there are many surprises waiting for me here. At least, I hope there are.

There seems to be a link between ways of thinking and geographical locations, something curiously unrelated to cultural backgrounds or professional communities or even national territories. Over the years, I’ve noticed a slight shift in my thought processes whenever I travelled back and forth between London and Barcelona. A re-accomodation of sorts, to my immediate human environment of course, but also to the different weather patterns, light changes, sounds and urban landscapes. This blog is meant to be a content provider, but it’s also a personal experiment – a log-book of sorts, charting my passage back ‘home’.

BCND then, is a blog vaguely related to my book La Barcelona del diseño, recently published by Santa & Cole to great critical acclaim (please excuse the self-publicity, but if not here, where? If not now, when?).

It’s an open forum for discussion, debates and any other contribution around the city of Barcelona and its links to design, both now and in the relatively recent past.

Beyond Barcelona itself, this blog is open to thoughts, news and conversations about design in general, urban culture, architecture, images and things.

A generous agenda, as you can see.