This first part serves as an introduction to a series of interviews with Madrid-based designers and creative practices in which we discuss the overall outcome of the conversations through general topics, local conditions and global impact.
Madrid is a city located almost precisely in the centre of Spain. It is a place of development and progress, suburbs undergoing restoration and changes in urban demographics.
Madrid is also a city heavily affected by the post-2008 financial crisis in the end of the first millennial decade, an event that especially left its mark in high unemployment amongst the youth and cultural fields. Though the circumstances today have improved, the city still reflects these conditions.
While the episodes from Madrid share commonalities with the previous edition of Leipzig conversations, they also differ in many ways. Through conversations with professionals of diverse creative fields, the design history of the south becomes a prominent and relevant point of departure, likewise the general urge for creating communal space for further creative development in Madrid.
This second edition of traveling interviews coincides with fanfare's visit to Libros Mutantes. As with the previous presentation at It's a Book in Leipzig, we presented a lively organic instalment of fanfare inc. an a annual creative research project looking into the conditions of nomadic design labour. Taking place this year, in five different cities, the focus of this edition of fanfare inc. is tools. Along with the annual catalogue, the project brings together a travelling display, a website, and this series of conversations presented through the fanfare tetatet podcast channel.
Produced by Charlie Clemoes and Freja Kir
