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Herética(S) is an art association guild set up in 2023 by Imanol Abad, Leyre Arraiza, Ane Berganza, Nesi Caro, Idoia Leache, Javier Ozcoidi, Jara Roset and Candela Santiago.

Herética(S) invites building in a sculptural and performative way. It transforms spaces from the collective to find their own structure, putting bodies into situations and situations into bodies. A practice that goes from the individual to the collective, and vice versa. An adaptation to the context and space, given that the rules of the game are constructed gesture by gesture.
 

Pez Estudio is the team of female architects, the curators of BBDW24. Since 2006, they have produced urban development, architecture, design and research-action projects from a feminist, participative and ecological approach. They seek to minimise people’s impact on the environment, to develop more inclusive cities with gender perspective, and to promote the use of biological systems and natural materials and the generation of contexts of collaboration.

Their work has received international awards from entities including Arquia Próxima, the Caribbean Architecture Biennale, the Architecture Biennial of Santo Domingo and the Holcim Foundations Awards. Their work has been developed in a number of institutions and programmes at international level including the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the MoMA in New York, the Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture, Medialab-Prado and Intermediae Matadero Madrid.

Elisa de los Reyes García is an architect and the co-founder of Pez Estudio, of the Wikitoki laboratory of Collaborative Practices in Bilbao and the Inteligencias Colectivas/Zoohaus project. She is part of the teaching team of the Masters Design for Change at IED Kunsthal and has held conferences and workshops in Europe and America (Parsons The New School NY, MoMA NY, Matadero Madrid, Medialab Prado, CCE in Lima, Santo Domingo, Chile, etc.).

Maitena Salinas has a degree in Communication Sciences, a postgraduate degree in Human Rights from the UPV (University of the Basque Country), an expert in Coaching and Mentoring from the UNIR (International University of La Rioja), a Mentor-Coach accredited by the EMCC European Mentoring and Coaching Council, a degree in Culture of Health from Harvard University, and an Inclusive Leadership degree from Carlos III University.

She has been working in the media for 25 years as a journalist, specialized in human rights, and has had a parallel career as an actress and health coach. From this professional triad, she develops her method of mentoring in communication for teams and professionals in the business world, working with both startups and consolidated companies at a national level, in areas such as effective communication, business leadership, team management and health culture. She is a regular speaker at international congresses on various topics, and her priorities include professional accompaniment to promote the positive evolution of people and society, always taking care of their own and their environment’s health and social inclusion.

Understanding the dance floor as an opportunity to connect and collectivise, Puñales has developed a sound universe centred on a diversity of rhythms and sounds from the African and Afro-Caribbean diaspora. From dance hall to gqom, from global bass to UK funk, and from Carioca funk to guaracha, his selection ensures the dancefloor is always on fire.

She has played in venues such as Laboratorio Octogon, El Crystal, Dabadaba and Jimmy Jazz, at parties such as Nexo Malito, Autotune or Barbarie and Raks, and at festivals such as 1000gradutan. She has shared the booth with artists such as BRAVA, Ms Nina, Flaca and Highkili.

She is in the VUTRON collective, in which they seek to experiment on the dance floor with sounds, movements and space through the sound system, while seeking to weave networks within the Bilbao scene.