The Designers’ Trail
Swap your conference badge for hiking boots. After Service Design Disrupted, The Designer's Trail leads you to the Pyrenees for your next steps as a designer with reflective workshops, a campfire, and silent walks in the mountains.
Forget your full schedules and slow down
After your visit to Barcelona Design Week, we take you to the Spanish Pyrenees for The Designer's Trail. Here, nature slows you down and gives clarity to think about your next moves as a designer.
Design is being disrupted, and so is the designer's career.
The Designer's Trail brings together designers reflecting on their design careers during two days of workshops, campfires, and silent walks. Mountain air, forest and rock become your co-designers for the weekend. We bring you back to Barcelona with a fresh new perspective on design and your work.
The Designer's Trail leads you to the Pyrenees for your next steps as a designer with reflective workshops, a campfire, and silent walks in the mountains.
Ticket includes
Two days of guidance and facilitation
Pick-up and drop-off from Barcelona
2 nights in Ainsa Old Town with breakfast and lunch
Shuttles to the High Pyrenees
What’s inside
October 16
Pick-up from Barcelona
Welcome around the campfire by Jeroen and two stories from local legends about the area that help you connect to the mountains
October 17
We will drive you high into the mountains where we do a silent walk surrounded by the majestic peaks of the Pyrenees. During this walk, you use your senses to connect to the place. Inspired by the sounds, smells and views of nature, you will reflect on your career, your current place as a designer and possible future steps. We share our experience in the group before we enjoy a self-catered lunch.
October 18
The nature of people in the mountains is to do, to act, to be active. Today is all about taking action. How are you going to turn your insights from the previous days into action? We send you off into the world again with a head full of inspiration and actionable next steps.
Drop-off in Barcelona
The Designer's Trail leads you to the Pyrenees for your next steps as a designer with reflective workshops, a campfire, and silent walks in the mountains.
Ticket includes
Two days of guidance and facilitation
Pick-up and drop-off from Barcelona
2 nights in Ainsa Old Town with breakfast and lunch
Shuttles to the High Pyrenees