Eina participates in 'What if...water', an exhibition on the critical challenge of water management and conservation, created by design students from BAU, EINA, Elisava, IED Barcelona, LCI Barcelona, and Escola Llotja (ESDAPC).
- 16 to 26 October
- 10am to 8pm
- Cosentino City Barcelona (Av. Diagonal, 497)
During the Disseny en Diagonal day, there will be an exhibition in Av. Diagonal / Aribau (mountain).
Organised by: Educació per al Disseny per Viure (EDIVI) with the support of Next Gen Design.
These are the projects presented by Eina:
'Aigua Pública / Hakeig Urbà'
Student: Pol Julià
Professors: Jara Rocha, Ruben Patter, Javier Nieto, David Steegman
This artefact is clearly positioned in favour of water as a public and common good.
It is an open source design that can be made by recycling an old backpack and that has a simple but diverse use, holding the water buttons of public fountains so that users do not have to hold the button, while filling a pot for a popular meal, connecting the garden hose for watering the park or adding water to the cement mix, filling carafes when there is a water cut, etc.
Moreover, this device is compatible with most public fountains and can be easily activated and deactivated without removing it.
'Aigua Assedegada'
Students: Alba Acebes, Martí Cabanas, Pol Julià
Aigua Assedegada is water that wants more water, it is a hungry incantation and a desire that gives rise to an intense inhabitation of the fountain systems of the Parc de Collserola. To make an appeal is an in- vocation, to shout is to summon, to be shouted and to go on a visit (Haraway).
Aigua Assedegada is an itinerant learning and research community, a mobile platform with an elastic character where strategies and methods of making water come can be put into practice and recovered. Learning flows, and in a world of scarcity, invoking it - also among us - is an urgent task. This community begins with the gluglugrup, an open team that aims to find in the search for water a space for coexistence, production and itinerant teaching, creating a route through the water networks and the gushing of springs.
'La Font Font'
Student: Alba Acebes
Teachers: Andreu Balius, Ferran Milan
My friend Alba once told me that "someone put a fountain there because someone else drinks from it".
And the fact is that "taking care of a fountain" establishes a much wider network of cures, which happens to take care of all those bodies that will be nourished, accompany them and bring them closer to a flow that slips through the channels, rich in sodium and in iron, in mosses and in bugs; in lives and in deaths.
Typography has a similar flow: each typographic character is an expression of the memory of a tone of voice, of a "way of telling" that creates currents capable of crossing generations and of ornamenting these fonts of the words that are born.
La Font Font is a liquid, free and water coded fountain, which transports this flow of affection and knowledge, taking care of the voices of the past, from the popular flow and from its reinterpretation. Throughout the province of Barcelona, and specifically in the Collserola Natural Park, there is a great cultural heritage around fountains and their surrounding spaces. They are meeting points, places for picnics, dancing and life. The fountain complexes created a network of watercourses and meeting places that have now been forgotten.
La Font Font was created by Aigua Assedegada and aims to recover, reinterpret and update thirsty imaginaries through the study of fontinal typographies and the influence of Catalan modernism. It is a display font, which aims to reflect the cultural heritage with modernist style strokes. It is designed for a single weight, although it wants to remain open to change and continuation.