Microcourse Hard water / Grey water
This microcourse invites participants to explore our relationship with Collserola and its waters through design, art, and ecology, from a post-natural perspective.
The sessions will take place at the neglected Sentmenat basin, an ecosystem whose ecological balance and functions within the environment have been disrupted by climate change and human activity. Conceived as a cognitive space, the basin will become an ephemeral site of situated learning, with the capacity to promote new forms of care, coexistence, and regeneration.
Organised by Eina Obra, the course provides tools to address the challenges faced by ecosystems in transition, through the integration of knowledge, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an affective approach.
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Who is it aimed at?
This course is aimed at a transdisciplinary audience interested in the intersection between design, ecology, artistic practices, and sustainability.
Dynamics
Structured across five interrelated phases (5 afternoons), Hard water / Grey water combines theory, practice, and co-creation, providing a framework for imagining desirable futures and exploring new forms of coexistence.
The microcourse combines work located in the Collserola Park with hands-on activities, debates, and time for collective reflection. The objective is to provide participants with tools to design solutions that can be applied in other ecosystems in transition. Each participant will be able to adapt the activities to their interests and prior experience.
Dates and timetable
The sessions will be held on Tuesdays from 29 April to 27 May from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Day 1 – Curation: Multispecies futures
Tuesday 29 April from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Helen Torres
Day 2 – Invocations: Water ecologies
Tuesday 6 March from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Sitesize
Day 3 – Practices of connection
Tuesday 13 May from 17:30 – 20:30
Lúa Coderch
Day 4 – Flows: Exploring references to imagine the future
Wednesday 21 May from 17:30 – 20:30
Marina Otero and Lluís Alexandre Casanovas
Day 5 – Futures for the basin as an ecosystem in transition
Tuesday 27 May from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Lluís Alexandre Casanovas
Teaching staff
Lluís Alexandre Casanovas, architect, curator, and academic.
Lúa Coderch, artist and Doctor of Fine Arts (Advanced Studies in Artistic Productions).
Pilar Cortada, researcher and director of Eina Obra.
Marina Otero Verzier, architect and researcher.
Sitesize (Elvira Pujol Masip & Joan Vila Puig), a collective dedicated to creation and research on the contemporary metropolis.
Helen(a) Torres, sociologist, translator, and professor of Art History and Critical Theory.
Cost, discounts, and enrolment
The full programme costs €170 (€153 for the EINA community)
If you cannot attend all the sessions, the cost per session is €40 (€36 for the EINA community).
Sessions
Day 1 – Curation: Multispecies futures
Tuesday 29 April from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Helen Torres
Explore curation as a form of coexistence between humans and other species, question the human-centred design paradigm, and encourage more collaborative and regenerative relationships with the environment. Based on references such as Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, and Astrida Neimanis, we propose a shift from an extractive vision of nature towards approaches that encourage respect and multi-species interaction.
Day 2 – Invocations: Water ecologies
Tuesday 6 March from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Sitesize
Explore the physical, spiritual, human, and non-human life of the Sentmenat basin not as a biophysical reality – as a range of plants and animals that we can observe, measure, record, analyse, describe, and categorize from a distance – but as a territory that thinks and feels, that emerges from the ecological relationships between the bodies that inhabit it.
Day 3 – Practices of connection
May 13 | 17:30 – 20:30
Lúa Coderch
Explore the environment through affectivity, attending to its rhythms, dynamics, and changes, and establishing an emotional and sensory connection before intervening.
Day 4 – Flows: Exploring benchmarks to imagine the future
Wednesday 21 May from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Marina Otero and Lluís Alexandre Casanovas
Explore contemporary practices that challenge anthropocentric relationships with water, providing inspiration and models for designing interventions on the abandoned Sentmenat basin.
Days 4 and 5 – Futures for the basin as an ecosystem in transition
Tuesday 7 May from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Lluís Alexandre Casanovas
Co-create a proposal that transforms the Sentmenat basin into a situated learning space. This is an active node through which we explore and reflect on better forms of coexistence between humans, other species, and ecosystems in the Collserola Park. The proposal must incorporate the voices and needs of all the actors involved, integrating the natural environment as an active agent in the creative process.
Results
At the end of the workshop, participants will have developed a concrete proposal that reimagines the relationship between humans, water, and other species in the Sentmenat basin, promoting a transformation towards a more respectful and collaborative future.
Questions
If you have any questions, please send an email to eina.obra@eina.cat