PARTEKATU!
Partekatu! is the closing event of Bilbao Bizkaia Design Week 2025, a moment to celebrate together everything shared during the week and open up a space for creative encounters. The atrium of the Ensanche Building will be transformed into a collective stage, where music, performance and the voices of the protagonists will weave a shared narrative.
Multimedia artist Sabina Covarrubias will open the evening with Fertility, an immersive video performance in line with the theme of this edition and the result of a collaboration with Bideotikan, an international digital art festival. The work connects female fertility with that of nature, intertwining soundscapes and generative visuals in real time.
After this opening, we will relive some of the most significant moments of the week through images, stories and testimonies from those who have made this edition possible. It will also be an opportunity to take a closer look at Heartbeat, Gheada's interactive urban installation that has been deployed in Bilbao's public space, reminding us of the power of citizens to save lives. Vedia will tell us how they developed the graphic design for this edition. We will also learn about the proposals developed at Laborategia, where students from different Basque universities and design schools, accompanied by Art for Life!, have worked on community health challenges from a regenerative approach. This will be complemented by presentations of activities promoted by local entities in the design sector, enriching the mosaic of experiences at BBDW25.
The evening will once again feature Maitena Salinas as master of ceremonies and the participation of Elisa de los Reyes from the Pez Estudio curatorial team. The evening will culminate with a collective toast, live music and a space to continue sharing, conversing and celebrating as a community.
Agenda:
8:00 p.m. Video performance Fertility by Sabina Covarrubias
8:15 p.m. Closing event and celebration of Bilbao Bizkaia Design Week
Due to the video performance, there will be two times for accessing the space. We recommend punctuality.
Attendance is free, but registration is required to reserve a place.
Sabina Covarrubias is a composer, multimedia artist and doctor in Aesthetics, Science and Technology of the Arts from the University of Paris 8. Her work ranges from acousmatic music, electroacoustics, musique mixte and visual music to experimental electronic music, in a language that combines research, creation and performance. Her live performances integrate modular synthesizers, voice processors and real-time generative video, using music computing tools designed by herself.
Her work has been presented at internationally renowned venues and festivals such as Vision'R Festival in Paris, Tate Modern in London, Sonica Festival in Glasgow, Saturnalia in Milan, Keroxen in Tenerife, Mercat de Música Viva in Vic, Festival de l'Imaginaire in Paris, ZiMMT in Leipzig, among others. She is the founder of Synesthetic Devices, a project dedicated to the creation of visual music instruments for Ableton Live. She is currently a guest lecturer at the IRCAM Cursus, where she teaches classes on visual music representation systems, and part of the SNCA in Mexico.
Fertility is a visual music work that pays tribute to female fertility and the fertility of nature. Composed during Sabina Covarrubias' artistic residency at Cove Park (Scotland), the piece is imbued with the damp, enveloping sounds of the Scottish landscape, which are its main source of inspiration.
Maitena Salinas graduated in Communication Sciences, with a postgraduate specialization in Human Rights from the UPV, an expert in Coaching and Mentoring from the UNIR, an accredited Mentor-Coach by the EMCC European Mentoring and Coaching Council, in Culture of Health from Harvard University, as well as in Inclusive Leadership from Carlos III University.
She has been working in the media for 25 years as a journalist specializing in human rights and has simultaneously developed her career as an actress and health coach. Based on this professional triad, she has developed her mentoring method in communication for teams and professionals in the business world, working with both startups and established companies at the national level in areas such as effective communication, business leadership, team management, and health culture. She is a regular speaker at international conferences on a variety of topics, and her priorities include professional support to promote the positive development of individuals and society, always with a focus on health care, both personal and environmental, and social inclusion.
Pez Estudio is the team of architects curating BBDW25. Since 2006, they have been developing design, architecture, urban planning and action research projects with an ecological, social, participatory and innovative approach. They promote minimising people's impact on the environment, developing inclusive cities, using biological systems and natural materials, and creating contexts for collaboration.
Their work has been internationally recognized by entities such as Arquia Próxima, the Caribbean Architecture Biennial, the Santo Domingo Architecture Biennial, and the Holcim Awards Foundation. Their work has been developed in various institutions and programs at an international level, such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, MoMA in New York, the Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, Medialab-Prado, and Intermediae Matadero Madrid.
Elisa de los Reyes García is an architect and co-founder of Pez Estudio, the Wikitoki collaborative practices laboratory in Bilbao, and the Inteligencias Colectivas / Zoohaus project. She teaches on the Master's Degree in Service Design at IED Kunsthal. She has given lectures and workshops in Europe and America (Parsons The New School NY, MoMA NY, Matadero Madrid, Medialab Prado, CCE in Lima, Santo Domingo, Chile, etc.).
Gheada is a multidisciplinary art studio based in Bilbao that specialises in immersive, interactive and performative experiences. It develops cultural projects that combine technology and artisanal techniques to create an engaging narrative, offering multi-layered sensory experiences. It also collaborates with numerous theatre companies, designing their projections. Its work has been exhibited at La Casa Encendida and the Matadero Projector Festival (Madrid); A Cidade da Cultura (Galicia); Sala BBK, Umbra Light Festival and Gau Zuria Festival (Basque Country), among others.
Clara Briones and Antton Ugarte are a creative duo who, after working in design and advertising studios in Bilbao, decided to found Vedia Design Studio. Passionate about brands, typography, branding and publishing projects, they work to highlight colour as an element of visual strength and individuality, as well as using it as a vehicle for communicating emotion. Their work is a celebration of design as a craft and as an addiction.
Miren Lauzirika is the founder of Art for Life, a consultancy specialising in boosting creativity within organisations. For more than ten years, she has been designing and facilitating participatory processes and training programmes that help teams and professionals to think collectively, innovate and make decisions in a more creative and collaborative way. Her work connects strategy with facilitation, creating spaces where ideas come to life and people engage with purpose.
