Image by YouRban | YouRban Festival 2026 Barcelona
YouRban Festival Revolutionises Plastic Reprocessing in Barcelona
designaustria invites everyone to the festival that turns plastic waste into urban design.
YouRban rolls into Barcelona with a mobile lab packed with design, workshops, and innovation. For ten days, the public is invited to explore live demonstrations, creative labs, training sessions, and evening events—all centred around circularity and urban futures. It’s hands-on, minds-on, and open to everyone. Free admission. Family friendly.
The YouRban Mobile Lab transforms the public space into a design- driven playground, open to schools, professionals, creatives, companies, and citizens alike.
Centred around a key material of the future—recycled Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (FRP)—YouRban showcases how plastic waste can be reimagined through creativity, collaboration, and innovation.
YouRban supports key European initiatives like the New European Bauhaus and the Green Deal by turning their principles into concrete, public action. The project combines aesthetics, sustainability, and social inclusion to build a regenerative, community-driven design culture. At its core is the urgent need to reuse durable polymer waste—still too often discarded—as a valuable material for new products. YouRban encourages companies to see this not just as an environmental duty, but as a smart business model for the circular economy.