UDIT, protagonist at Fiesta Design 2025

UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, is present from today, Wednesday 12 February, at Fiesta Design 2025, the Madrid Design Festival's initiative to encourage the public to connect and experiment with design. And it does so with its own conceptual space, The Atypical University, in which four jewel works designed by alumni and students of the university will be exhibited.

The exhibition, located in the Institución de Libre Enseñanza de Madrid (P.º del Gral. Martínez Campos, 14), opened today and can be visited free of charge until Sunday 23 February.

For the Fiesta Design 2025 edition, UDIT proposes a walk through four pieces resulting from talent, creativity and the confluence between Interior Design, Fashion and Graphic Creation and Product Design.

The central piece, Living Structures: Between the Visible and the Sound, is designed by the interior designer and alumni Teresa Criado, together with her team at Estudio Hilera, and is the exhibition project itself. Next to it, visitors can enjoy Psique, the spectacular fashion piece that is the protagonist of the exhibition, designed by Vicente Martos. Graphic creation is represented by Hugo Morán and his work Madrid Bruto, while the fourth piece, the Arpa chair, created by Lucía Arburu, Álvaro Prota, Aleksander Kaczmarek, Adrián Martín, Micaela Salomone and Javier López in collaboration with the firm PILMA, represents the Product Design area.

4,000 pieces of polyester fibre provided by IDEATEC

The route proposed by UDIT in Fiesta Design, for the creation of which 4,000 pieces of polyester fibre provided by the company IDEATEC have been used, is neither fixed nor linear, but adapts intuitively to the shapes generated by the curtains of this material, inviting the public to a totally free exploration.

These curtains, far from remaining decorative elements or mere dividers, are "active pieces" that modulate the perception, both visual and acoustic, of the space itself, creating different sound environments that dialogue with the pieces exhibited and generate an immersive experience that goes beyond the visual, thus opening up a dialogue between the audible and the tangible.

The four works that make up the space are as follows

Estructuras Vivas: Entre lo Visible y lo Sonoro, the central piece by Teresa Criado, is an exhibition project centred on a continuous, multi-purpose structure that acts as the skeleton of the space, supporting and sheltering both the aforementioned sound-absorbing curtains and the other three works.

For his part, Vicente Martos, pattern and model maker at Sybilla and graduate in Fashion Design at UDIT, will be exhibiting Psyche, a work inspired by the goddess of the same name and her link with butterflies. This piece, whose theatrical silhouette plays with the opacity and transparency of the fabrics, extolling femininity through organic shapes, embodies the process of transformation and metamorphosis.

Hugo Morán, alumniof the Multimedia and Graphic Design Degree and current Brand Designer at Plural Branding, will contribute his work Madrid Bruto, a photographic work that represents Brutalism in the city of Madrid in a raw and direct way. With it, he commemorates, makes visible and immortalises this artistic movement, preserving the identity and integrity of the capital's buildings.

Finally, the students of the Degree in Product Design at UDIT, Lucía Arburu, Álvaro Prota, Aleksander Kaczmarek, Adrián Martín, Micaela Salomone and Javier López, will exhibit their Arpa Armchair, created in collaboration with the prestigious design firm PILMA. Made of solid mindi wood and upholstered in beige fabric, it reflects the essence of Scandinavian design, standing out for its simplicity and warmth, and its elegant backrest evokes the strings of the instrument that gives it its name.

You can request your free ticket here.