Real Fábrica de Artillería
& Fundación Cajasol
Nov. 26–28, 2026
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Joel Blanco

Madrid · Designer

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An artist and designer who self-identifies as an inactive member of the Pokémon generation and junk food expert. Popular culture profoundly shapes his work, which spans visual arts, design, and research. His practice revolves around different visions of the future and the impacts of network culture on our perception of time.

As a consultant, he works with organizations through future scenario visualization and other design methodologies to help clients imagine new worlds and make better strategic decisions. His expertise as a product designer and trend researcher—specializing in strategy, speculative design, and design fiction—earned him recognition from Forbes magazine as one of the top 40 futurists in Spain.

He's a researcher in the Universal Post-Planetary Design program at The New Centre for Research & Practice and serve as the Curatorial Director of MAYRIT. He was also an artist-in-residence at the Real Academia de España en Roma, where he developed a project exploring imperial aesthetics, masculinity, and visions of the future in contemporary culture.

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One of the new portraits Juan Borgognoni took of me.My pictures were too old so @juanborgognoni