Dr. Daniel Cid, Associate Professor of Art Design & Fashion at the University of Southampton, inaugurates the first edition of the Pratt Institute Barcelona programme at Eina with the lecture Following The Fish, inspired by the Catalan pavilion project for the Venice Biennale 2023, developed by LEVE Projects with the cooperative Top manta.
Pratt Barcelona is an international collaboration between Pratt Institute (New York) and Eina, University Centre of Design and Art of Barcelona, which promotes academic exchange and joint research in the field of design and the arts.
Dr. Daniel Cid, Associate Professor of Art Design & Fashion at the University of Southampton, inaugurates the Pratt Barcelona programme at Eina with the lecture Following The Fish, which will take place on Thursday 12 June at 15:30 at the Bosc facilities.
Pratt Barcelona is a collaborative project between the Pratt Institute in New York - a university with five faculties dedicated to design, art, architecture, science and information sciences - and Eina, University Centre of Design and Art of Barcelona. This international project includes the Study Abroad programme in Sustainability and Resilience, the exchange of students and faculty, as well as collaboration between teachers and researchers from both institutions in competitive research and innovation projects.
In this sense, the Public Sphere Barcelona project is currently being carried out jointly by Dr. Tània Costa, from Eina, and Dr. Rafael de Balanzó, from the Pratt Institute, within the framework of the European SIT-PLU project.
The inaugural conference of the Pratt Barcelona project to be given by Dr. Daniel Cid will be entitled Following The Fish in reference to the project and exhibition of the Catalan pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2023, carried out with the cooperative Top manta.
"Through the critical and proactive gaze of African migrant communities at the places of arrival, this project sought to resituate the places from which architecture is made and the role of architects in contexts of migration to include debates on the environmental and decarbonising impact, which could alter everyday urban habits by privileging acts of sharing. Following the Fish seeks new paths for a more equitable and communitarian architecture. And it does so with the cooperative Top manta (founders of the Barcelona Street Vendors Union) and a community of international architecture students, adopting dialogic approaches to generate decolonised and decarbonised visions from design. Individualism is unsustainable; community structures are more efficient”.
→ Lecture in English
→ Thursday 12 June at 15:30 h
→ Eina Bosc. Aula B0
→ Event open to all audiences