"The Art of Our Table"

"The Art of Our Table" is an ephemeral exhibition that can be visited at the Design Museum of Barcelona from 19 to 23 January, carried out collectively by the Design Pedagogies subject of the EINA Design Degree, taight by Anna Majó; the Fundació Asis, the Passwork-Centre de Noves Oportunitats de Barcelona project and the Education Department of the Design Museum. 

The project is a further step in a process of practice-based research in design, which aims to demonstrate the assumption that the capacity of design is related to an apparently distant field such as pedagogy. In other words, when design and pedagogy are brought together, the transformative capacity of design increases and is oriented towards sustainable and accessible wellbeing for any stratum of society. 

In this project, then, the thought of Design together with the knowledge of the discipline of Social Education have been in charge of mediating a series of learning processes to contribute to the improvement of the lives of a group of young migrants who are or have been under the tutelage of a public administration. 

The thematic area chosen to carry out this objective has been ceramic production processes, specifically in the context offered by the concept of 'l'art de la table'. This art is understood as a ritual that has been developed since the moment in which the act of eating stopped responding to reasons of survival and became a pleasure for the senses and a place for communication and coexistence; spaces of life in which we meet, connect, share and create links. 

At this table we will make the meal a ritual in which the stories of some of the utensils we will use, the stories of the food that will bring them to life and our stories, the stories of those of us who are part of this gift, will be equally important.

Collaboration and commitment have been the protagonists in these past days of learning and creating, and have been weaving bonds between us that have been solidified in the ceramic pieces, spreading borders and bringing together different identities in a living and moving image.