An exhibition about the most rural Barcelona
After its passage through the Civic Center Sant Andreu, the exhibition arrives at La Casa Elizalde The last harvest. Transformations and survivals of rural Barcelona. Organized by theMunicipal Archive of Barcelonawill be inaugurated on November 27 at 7 p.m and can be visited until January 18 of next year.
This project by Núria Source i Montse Ferres aims to show, through the documentation kept in the District Municipal Archives, the importance, survival and transformations of the rural function of the territory of the Barcelona plan.
In the 19th century, the city was expanding at an unprecedented speed and scale and the existing infrastructure was insufficient to guarantee the health and supply of the population. The administrations responded to the problem by regulating, planning and innovating. Many of the urban projects from that moment would promote the benefits of living in less densified environments and close to nature.
Today, rural Barcelona lives on in the longing of the urban population to reconnect with the territory that sustains and feeds it, a last harvest that claims the city’s rural past and produces new socioecological imaginaries.
Exhibition activities:
11/12/24 – 11 a.m. Visit to the urban garden of the Sagrada Familia
In charge of the Environmental Classroom of the Sagrada Família.
18/12/24 – 7 p.m. Guided visit
By Núria Font, one of the curators of the project.
10/01/25 – 10.30 am. Visit to the Horts al terat social projectdeveloped by the Municipal Institute of Disabled Persons.
*Cover photograph: Camps de Can Sala, with chimneys in the background, 1935. AMDS.
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