This is on Design Extra.
It's a short show to accompany our weekly program where we discuss everything from architecture
and craft to furniture and graphic design.
I'm Mailie Evans.
The Spanish capital is celebrating the eighth edition of its annual Madrid Design Festival,
and Monocor's Liam Aldous has been on the ground talking to designers,
designers,
curators and special guests to understand how the relatively young festival has been bringing a new sense of self
to the design community.
I'm standing in front of a bright,
pulsating installation in Madrid's Fernand Gomez Centro Cultural de la Villa,
where a sign encourages me to place my hands on its surface,
to feel, feel the vibration of the sound and maybe even the colour.
It's part of the Lion Dreams, the Madrid Design Festival's feature exhibition on lighting,
which delves into the relationship between light and space.
Talking to Argentinian artist Ezekiel Nobili about his piece Tricrotone, the playful,
imaginative side of Madrid's design community is illuminated in full force.
It's a spirit that resonates with an earlier conversation I had with design curator
and professora Marissa Santa Maria in a showroom in the city's north.
Madrid does not the industry we have, not the factories.