An exhibition on the most rural Barcelona
After passing through the Sant Andreu Civic Center, the exhibition arrives at Casa Elizalde The last harvest. Transformations and survival of rural Barcelona. Organized by theBarcelona Municipal Archivewill open the November 27 at 7pm and you can visit until the January 18 Next year.
This project by the care of Núria Font and Montse Ferres It aims to show, through the documentation kept in the municipal district archives, the importance, the survival and the transformations of the rural of the territory of the Barcelona plan.
In the nineteenth century, the city expanded at an unprecedented speed and scale, and the existing infrastructures were inadequate to ensure the health and supply of the population. The administrations responded to the problem by regulating, planning and innovating. Many of the urban projects from then on would promote the benefits of living in less densified environments and close to nature.
Today, rural Barcelona survives in the yearning of urban population to reconnect with the territory that holds it and feeds it, a last harvest that claims the rural past of the city and produces new socioecological imaginaries.
Exhibition activities:
11/12/24 – 11 h. Visit to the Urban Hort of the Sagrada Familia
By the Environmental Classroom of the Sagrada Familia.
12/18/24 – 7pm. Guided visit
By Núria Font, one of the curators of the project.
10/01/25 – 10.30 am. Visit to the Social Horts project on the roofdeveloped by the Municipal Institute of Persons with Disabilities.
*Cover photography: Can Sala fields, with bottom chimneys, 1935. AMDS.
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