The DHub is the headquarters of the Museu del Disseny (Design Museum), with the dual function of conserving, interpreting and exhibiting its holdings and developing a proposal for exhibitions and activities around design.

These objectives are translated into a program that aims to disseminate and bring these disciplines closer to the public through exhibitions and activities for all audiences, but which also seeks to boost and promote the sector through a program that includes conferences, festivals and awards together with that of entities based at the DHub: Barcelona Center for Design (BcD), the Arts and Design Promotion (FAD), the Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE), the Association for the furniture study and the El Clot-Josep Benet Library.

The DHub's role in education and research is also fundamental, through a close link with universities and an extensive program dedicated to schools, as well as the work done from the Museum's Documentation Center del Disseny, consultation and research space specialized in decorative arts and design that gathers and preserves documentation related to these subjects, disseminates it and puts it at the service of professionals and researchers.