From 04 to 08 February 2013, Faculty of Fine Arts
Teaching team: Aida Sánchez de Serdio, Òscar Padilla, Marta Carrasco, Sergi Selvas, Borja L. Fermoselle, Nora Arias
Collaborations: José L. Oyón, Aurelio Castro (Retrieve Poble Sec), Centro de Cultivos Contemporáneos del Barrio, Marta Serra Permanyer
The neighborhood of Poble Sec as a Laboratory
Poble Sec is the area of study and exploration that has been chosen for the development of proposals because of its status as a consolidated neighborhood, although at the same time, it is the object of constant transformation processes that change the physiology of its spaces socially. Historically, the neighborhood of the Poble Sec has had an extramural character, greatly enhanced by its strategic geographical location: it is located between the consolidated city of Barcelona, the sea and Montjuïc mountain. The urban growth of the neighborhood has been conditioned by a complex morphology (and very particular construction conditions) that responds to this hinging condition between the walled Barcelona, the outskirts of the city, the port and the mountain. Thus, on the one hand, we have Montjuïc, with a strong presence for residents as a place of leisure and socialization; and on the other hand, we have the port, the industries and the Hortes de Sant Bertran, which make up a social fabric formed, above all, by the working class. This characteristic morphology, added to the different migratory waves at different times and historical contexts, has marked the identity of this neighborhood of working tradition in Barcelona. From a social point of view, this boiling, heterogeneity and divergence continues to be the driving force behind some links within the neighborhood, at the same time that it produces certain conflicts; with the background of the city itself in constant questioning and mutation.
Thus, by demonstrating the capacity for temporary transformation of the spaces of the city, students are proposed to think / build / activate / wake up an interactive space, highlighting their relational and mutable quality.
teams and projects
On Vas Navás?
De Didac Baeza Raja, Teresa Estapé Buixó, Ivet Gasol Escuer, Kalina Miroslavova Minkova, Magalí Sanz
With Plaza de las Navas as a symbolic space for the dynamics of the neighborhood, this project responds to what appears to be an absence of communication between neighbors in the neighborhood. This is intended to enhance the identification of neighbors to the Plaza by launching active and participative attitudes with this public space, and breaking down negative dynamics that have been dragging on for a long time.
The questions are raised around the public space. What does he define? What does he legitimize? How do you get in and connect with the audience for which it was created? What use is it in narrow streets, few public spaces, designed, preconceived or imposed on the users and that often does not fit well with their expectations and customs or establishes a clearly improved relationship?
Prior observation of the square and its dynamics at different times of the day, gives us a more accurate idea of its use, an intervention is proposed at Plaza Navas, with the aim of breaking the established dynamics, enhancing participation of the users and pedestrians and to create a disruptive action from the provisional placement of a “new furniture” in the square made of a large table and about 30 chairs.
It is intended to break the usual landscape of the square with these “red spots” formed by furniture that invites you to sit, relate, break routines and interact with a playful spirit. The furniture will be partly linked to each other to create a sensation of a mobile set and to also not be substituted.
Cartografies Subjectives
Elena Castellà Fusté, Omar Moreno Balcells, Judit Onsès Segarra, Mikel Sagarminaga
The cartography group has proposed, from a recording position, a proposal to collect information that configures the cartography of the neighborhood of the Poble Sec atzarosa, marked by the milestones that the protagonists mark. They start from the concept of “network drift” to generate a collective cartography of the territory, which allows a subjective interpretation of the environment and the approach to the daily life of the site, thus redefining the concept of neighborhood and its representation.
The medium used is the audiovisual piece, which shows the different interviews and the route made. On paper, the micro-cartographies are generated by the people interviewed.
In this link, see video.
La Charlateneria
Izaro Ezeiza Karrera, Esteve Holgado Moreno, Aina Jordi Ballester, David Terroba Seijo
Relationship understood as a conversation of (re) mutual knowledge between unknown people. The work of this group has been probably the most experimental, in the sense that the process experienced by the members has marked the experience of the workshop much more than the proposal. They propose a space for conversation, La Charlatenería understood as a space for dialogue or conversation among the people of the neighborhood. The purpose is, then, the lived experience, the exchange of a tea for a story. Thus, a whole series of Poble Sec stories will be formed that will be forging a fabric of relationships arising from conversations in the same neighborhood and between people in that same neighborhood.
Album Familiar del Poble Sec
Laura Company Mercado, Gerard Fisa, Mercè Gelpi Pelayo, Marisol Jiménez Rivera, Alan Latre Cabrera
A neighborhood is an entity composed of physical realities but also of human histories that form a social mosaic based on personal relationships, daily, and in summary, every day and intangible. It is precisely these vital moments that we all have in common, the invisible bond that connects us and which makes the history of Poble Sec the story of a family composed of many families.
With this reflection in mind, the project “Poble Sec Family Album” emerges, because it is precisely through photography that we catch those ephemeral moments lived in the family around a table, during an open-air lunch, an important celebration or playing a part in your life.
With this family photo album formed by images given by people from the neighborhood from different groups, it is intended to compose a collective image of the human reality of the neighborhood, with photos of the past 40 years or last week. It is, therefore, through these small cuts of intimacy in the family as they want to establish links between neighbors seemingly far away and approach positions, since after all, we are all remembered
Jugasec
Uriel López Martínez, Juan Luís Romero Masero, Pep Rovira Tolosa, Gemma Fontanals Guxens, Julieta Duran Colomer
The proposal started from the questioning of the same term “participation”, playing with the various meanings that you can suggest (participACTION / PARTYcipation / etc.). From here, from a desire to get to know the neighborhood from leisure and the interaction with the residents of Poble Sec, a game is proposed as a catalyst for spontaneous relationships between the people interviewed and the group of students.
Thus, a route for neighborhood bars is considered, understood as an extension of public and relational space. There, there are spontaneous conversations that feature some characteristics of the neighborhood’s identity. For example, the Three Chimneys, the small commerce, the viewpoint, etc. These Poble Sec icons turn into game cards, the JugaSec, which is played similarly to bingo, looking for the complicity between who sings the cards and who fills them.
This game is used as a pretext for the interaction between students (as an external group in the neighborhood) and people present at a specific time in a specific place. It is understood that the goal is experimenting, sharing impressions and thanking individuals for a shared learning.
MEETgera
Mireia Martín Salvanyà, Maite Mentxaka Tena, Ana Gallardo Rodriguez, Cristina Garcia Peñas, Marta Salomó Coll, Maya Torres Duelo, Gala Vallespín
Reappropriation-reactivation. This project is based on the interest in the spaces of “disagreement”, disqualified on the pretext of criticizing and questioning the desires of these inactive spaces. After inspecting the neighborhood of the dry town, this group observed that some of the problems were also reflected in the public space and especially in the media areas. Areas that incite an attitude and an individualistic use of the site, which instead of generating meetings, generates crossing spaces.
With the aim of promoting these sites considering an investigation about its use and the possible activation through an artistic / recreational / urban intervention so that it adapts to the unique morphology of each place, it is intended to observe whether a simple artistic intervention can change the relationship that people in the neighborhood have with this type of space, or how they can interact.
