Emboscada #4 Sociedad 0

Ambush #4: Sociedad 0

As part of Eina Idea’s Ambushes programme, Sociedad 0 reflects on the concepts of communal living-working and food management through the new building of EINA Bosc and the possible configurations of a canteen, pantry, kitchen, action space and collective partition. Understanding these functions fluidly, in the midst of significant and material processes, they imagine transformable circulations and compositions onsite. 

This process, led by Sara Torres and Èlia Bagó, members of Sociedad 0, involves students in a research stage that leads to a process of design and construction, culminating in a permanent installation. Under the initial premise “function cancels possibility”, the canteen and its modular extension are projected in open and potential ways, maintaining the validity of a building under construction, allowing it to remain malleable by its future users. A set of external modules will emerge to form something similar to a tangram, the Asian version of a puzzle game. Sociedad 0 appropriates one of the stepped pyramids of sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi—highly present in several of his playgrounds—to resize it and transfer it to fibreglass before placing it in EINA Bosc’s courtyard. This action reflects on the opposition between useless architecture / useful sculpture. The possible dynamics of this multiple and modular object suggest a to and fro between work and rest, tool and furniture, sharing and eating; as well as between interior and exterior, food and display.

This project is carried out during the months of November, December and January 2021-22 with the involvement of Laura Bueno, Berta Casas and Eva Ramón, students of the bachelor module “Design of Workspaces”, and the complicity of the designer Tomás López, module professor; during moments of preparatory dialogue, the project has also counted on the contribution of artists Jordi Colomer and Antoni Miralda. Coinciding with the official opening of EINA Bosc, on 1 April 2022, the tangram is presented in the context of a picnic and relaxed conversation with the designers, who share details about their process of work. 

Ambush #4: Sociedad 0, photo by Sofía Jimeno Ambush #4: Sociedad 0, photo by Sofía Jimeno
Ambush #4: Sociedad 0, photo by Sofía Jimeno Ambush #4: Sociedad 0, photo by Sofía Jimeno
Ambush #4: Sociedad 0, photo by Sofía Jimeno Ambush #4: Sociedad 0, photo by Sofía Jimeno
Ambush #4: Sociedad 0, photo by Sofía Jimeno Ambush #4: Sociedad 0, photo by Sofía Jimeno

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Picnic and project presentation with Sara Torres and Èlia Bagó

Date of presentation: Friday, 1 April 2022 at 14h
Venue: EINA Bosc - Carrer del Bosc, 2, 08017 Barcelona