december 23rd
Agreement with XERA, Xunta de Galicia
READ and the Xunta de Galicia, through the Galician Forest Industry Agency (XERA), signed an agreement linked to the FSWD/Identity and Territory exhibition with the dual purpose of incorporating design in companies as a transformative element and the dissemination of Galician wood as an element for design.
June 18th
Di_Ca joins READ
The members of the Association of Professionals and Design Companies of the Canary Islands unanimously approved at an extraordinary meeting to formalize their membership READ, after years working with her. With this new addition become 12 associations that are part of READ.
june 15th
‘Pact for Design’ presentation
Six organizations of the Spanish design ecosystem (READ; FAD, Fomento de las Artes y del Diseño; BcD, Barcelona Centro de Diseño; FMRE, Foro de Marcas Renombradas Españolas; CADI, Centro Aragonés de Diseño Industrial and València Capital Mundial del Diseño 2022) promote a “Design Pact” with the aim of achieving greater cohesion in the implementation of a “National Design Strategy” that gives design a strategic role in the economic, social and environmental transformation that our country is demanding.
march 13th
DAG (Galicia) assumes the presidency of READ
The Galician Design Association (DAG) assumes the presidency of READ in the Annual General Assembly held, for the first time, online. As stipulated in its statutes, the presidency rotates every two years. Thus, the new mandate for 2021 and 2022 corresponds to DAG, represented by Uqui Permui. The vice-presidency is assumed by Cuenca Diseña, represented by Juan Lázaro; the second vice-presidency, ADCV, represented by Vicente Gallega; the secretariat is assumed by EIDE, represented by Benicio Aguerrea; and the treasury is assumed by La Exprimidora, represented by Cristina Cavaller.
