Eina Gateway to Collserola, within the framework of Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026, proposes an open classroom space as a means of disseminating and promoting design, architecture and landscape architecture from a critical thinking perspective.
It is conceived as a meeting and learning space that offers young people aged between 13 and 18, coming from urban secondary schools and educational centres, the opportunity to approach nature as a space for exploration, knowledge, transfer and reflection. In this way, participants recognise themselves as key agents in building society’s future.
This open classroom will deploy a programme of educational content over the ten months of the World Capital Initiative, from February to November 2026, through practical and outreach activities designed to take place outside the conventional classroom, within school hours.
The programme includes various types of free activities such as workshops, guided walks and seminars, specifically designed for student groups and aligned with the academic calendar of educational centres.
The project also includes training sessions aimed at the teaching staff of participating centres, with the objective of providing emerging knowledge and tools that they can later integrate autonomously into their classroom practice.
The activities are delivered by Eina teaching staff and collaborating professionals, with the active participation of several agents from the institutional network and from the programme of the Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026.
Why take part?
To experience meaningful and collaborative learning.
Students will engage with active methodologies, work with real tools and contexts, and experiment with creative processes applied to design, new materialities, architecture and speculative thinking.
To inspire and empower pre-university talent.
Using creative resources and ecosocial criteria, the programme fosters key competences to imagine and transform future challenges.
To reconnect with nature through first-hand experience.
The activities, located in the Collserola Mountain Range Natural Park, bring the natural environment closer to young people who usually carry out their learning in urban contexts, promoting in situ exploration of the territory.
To foster a culture of sustainability and wellbeing.
The initiative helps to spread the importance of circularity, sustainable growth, responsible use of resources and people’s wellbeing as cross-cutting axes of design and society.
To promote equity and equal opportunities.
The project supports fairer access to creative and educational practices among students from different social realities and educational centres.
The Eina Gateway to Collserola initiative forms part of the innovation laboratory LivingLab Eina Collserola and is coordinated by Javier Nieto, together with Eina's Research Group on Design for Health and Wellbeing.
Activities and workshops include:
Designing from nature
With Ona Orozco i Joan
→ Registration open
Imagine the city to come
With Grazielle Bruscato and Narcís Font
→ Registration open
Actua: Urban collective creation for transformation
With Jon Marín
Resilience Thinking Walkshop: The Water Paths from Collserola to Barcelona
With Rafael de Balanzó, SiteSize and Francesc Magrinyà
Light relations in natural environments: the visible landscape
With Àfrica Sabé
✨ Would you like to learn more and discover all the details of the project?
Write to labcollserola@eina.cat and we’ll be happy to tell you all about it.
