When María José Alier first crossed the doors of Elisava, in 1961, design was still an emerging discipline in Catalonia. The school had just been born, the classrooms were exclusively made up of women and there was only one specialization: interior design. Sixty-five years later, Elisava celebrates its anniversary as an international university center with dozens of specializations and students from all over the world. The trajectory of the Alier-Botey family allows us to explain, almost as if it were a timeline, how design has evolved over these decades.