Imagining the city to come with Grazielle Bruscato and Narcís Font is an activity linked to Eina Gateway to Collserola.
What will Barcelona be like fifty years from now? How will we live with the effects of climate change, new technologies and social transformations? And what role can we play in shaping this future?
This workshop invites students and teachers from schools and secondary schools to observe the city through a critical and creative lens, understanding it as a living space in constant transformation. Drawing on contemporary concepts in urban planning, ecology and design, participants will discover that imagining possible futures is also a way of better understanding the present.
Group registrations for secondary schools and schools
→ With Dr Grazielle Bruscato Portella and Narcís Font
→ Duration: 2 hours
→ Availability: Flexible
→ Format: On-site workshop
→ Venue: Eina Sentmenat / Eina Bosc
→ Contact mail: labcollserola@eina.cat
The workshop combines observation, experimentation and creation to transform an everyday experience into a design project. Through a walk around Eina and a series of analytical exercises, students will learn to identify the relationships between architecture, nature, technology and everyday life, and turn them into ideas for imagining the city of the future.
At the heart of the workshop is the construction of a three-dimensional diorama: a narrative model that makes it possible to represent future scenarios, explore new ways of living together and imagine more sustainable, inclusive and resilient urban landscapes. Each proposal becomes a small laboratory for experimenting with ideas, materials and ways of representing the future.
Beyond the final outcome, the workshop provides tools for developing skills that are particularly relevant at upper-secondary level: critical thinking, observation, creativity, collaborative work and visual communication. It is an experience that connects design with the major challenges of our time and invites students to imagine the kind of world they want to help build.
The Workshop
The workshop is structured in four stages.
First, an introduction presents some of the ideas currently transforming cities: people-centred urban planning, feminist perspectives on urban design and an ecological understanding of urban metabolism. These concepts provide participants with tools to interpret their surroundings critically and connect them with their own everyday experiences.
Next, the group takes an active walk around the Eina area. Along the way, participants gather observations, drawings, photographs, sounds and found materials that will become the starting point for the project.
The third stage focuses on constructing the diorama. Using drawings, collages and a variety of materials, each student creates a three-dimensional model imagining what this same space might look like fifty years from now. The different layers of the diorama make it possible to incorporate new landscapes, architecture, infrastructure, species and technologies, and to explore different future scenarios.
Finally, all the dioramas are brought together in a collective installation that creates a shared
