During his presentation entitled "Fragility and creativity: the unmaking and remaking of the world", Professor Escribano asserted that the relationship between disability and creativity "far from being separate are closer together than they may first appear”.

Escribano went on to say of disability that while it can be experienced as an obstacle to accessing the world, “it effectively demands engaging in a feat of imagination and creativity to see how, in some way, those limitations can be resolved”. Given the prevalent  impression that people with disability "cannot act spontaneously in their relationship with the world is precisely why there is a need for creativity and imagination to overcome these barriers”.

The professor gave the example of incorporating people with physical and psychological disabilities into integrated dance: “What has been achieved is not only integrating or including people who would otherwise have been excluded from artistic work, but also teaching all of us to appreciate the abilities of people who are ostensibly disabled. It shows us that beauty and disability are not mutually exclusive and, to a certain extent, it helps us appreciate the unseen capacities of people who, in principle, could easily be labelled as a group incapable of belonging in the world of expressive abilities”.

The speaker also stressed that painful situations involving a limitation or disability, “are an invitation for us to change the world”. Conversely, he went on to say that "situations of wellbeing, pleasure and flawless operation do not invite any kind of change”.

As a final thought, Xavier Escribano posed the following question: “Is there anybody out there who does not have some kind of limitation, disability, weakness or vulnerability?  People faced with disabilities have spent a great deal of time struggling against difficulties and that is why they are capable of becoming true masters of humanity and true masters of how to overcome the vulnerability or fragility that we all share as human beings”.