VII BCN Fashion Symposium - THREADING FUTURES. Fashion Design and the Imaginaries of Tomorrow

We invite you to the VII BCN Fashion Symposium by LCI Barcelona, which will take place on May 5 and 6 at our campus (carrer d'Àlaba, 124).

Under the title THREADING FUTURES. Fashion Design and the Imaginaries of Tomorrow, this edition proposes to explore the intersection between fashion and speculative fiction as one of the most fertile methodological territories for critically examining the current conditions of the fashion system and imagining alternative futures capable of addressing the ecological, social, and technological crisis of the 21st century.

The Symposium is structured around Fashion Futuring as a conceptual framework that understands fashion not only as a generator of forms, images, and products, but as a cultural ecosystem capable of activating collective narratives, materialising imaginaries, and testing social transformations in a saturated present.

The programme will unfold over two distinct days: the first will be mainly devoted to academic and theoretical reflection, while the second will focus on the dialogue between academia and industry, strengthening the intersections between critical thinking and professional practice.

As the closing event of the Symposium, on May 6 the Felicidad Duce Award 2025 will be presented to fashion designer, entrepreneur, and photographer Ana Locking, recipient of the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts and the National Fashion Design Award. This prize, promoted by LCI Barcelona, recognises outstanding careers in the field of design and fashion.

Tuesday, May 5

09:30 am | Event registration

10:00 am | Welcome and Symposium introduction – Estel Vilaseca

10:15 am | Opening lecture: Reworking time to re-design futures beyond the human – Clizia Moradei and Mar Sureda

11:30 am | The second skin beyond metaphor: participatory consciousness and the third body – Miquel González

12:00 pm | Dystopian costume and futures of fashion: a critical reflection through cinema – Ariadna Tercero

12:30 pm | Coffee break

12:45 pm | Roundtable: Fictions for after the end of the world – LCI Barcelona students

01:30 pm | La Nueva Carne: an analogue magazine on the human being in the digital age – Samuel Valiente

02:15 pm | End of day one

Wednesday, May 6

09:00 am | Imagining the future: what art and fashion tell us about the time to come – Desislava Pirinchieva and Charo Mora

10:15 am | Programmable avatars: rhizome and symbolic power in digital fashion – Eva Bozilovic Schrack

10:45 am | Coffee break

11:00 am | Fashion and intersectionality: limits, tensions, and openings – Sílvia Rosés and Mar Sureda

12:00 pm | Circular Microfactory Berlin – Marte Hentschel

12:45 pm | Symposium closing

01:15 pm | Felicidad Duce Award ceremony for Ana Locking (presented by Martín Torres) + Book signing in collaboration with Superflua publishing house

Would you like to attend?

Simply register by clicking the button above and join us on May 5 and 6 at our campus (carrer d'Àlaba, 124). We look forward to seeing you!