We are celebrating 10 years of cooperating in Barcelona
Coopolis 10 years ago. It seems like yesterday when the project started to walk, but a decade has already passed since we set ourselves a clear goal: transform the economic and social dynamics of Barcelona to build a fairer, sustainable, feminist and anti-racist system. This year, we look back with pride to recognize the path traveled and, above all, we look forward to continue growing the Social and Solidarity Economy.
Under the slogan ‘ReCooperem Barcelona’Coòpolis will celebrate our tenth anniversary with a big party next May 29 at Bloc4BCNin schedule of 5:00 p.m. It will be a day free i you need to register here!
Celebrate with us: the big 10th Anniversary party
To celebrate this milestone and bring together the entire network that made this trip possible, we have prepared a festive day designed to be accessible and inclusive. The celebration will have a program with spaces for reflection on the future challenges of cooperatives, humorous monologues to celebrate with joy all that we have built, one dinner to share folded tables and strengthen alliances byAbarka i music with PDs to close the party as it deserves. In addition, we will have babysitting service in charge ofArcadia i interpretation in Catalan sign language with Laifari. We will end up toasting as a group to celebrate these 10 years of cooperating in the city. Sign up for it!
A campaign with an identity: ReCooperem Barcelona
This anniversary is not just an anniversary; is one political and social reaffirmation. With the ‘ReCooperem Barcelona, 10 years of cooperating with the city’ campaign, we want to continue projecting the Ateneo’s identity throughout the neighbourhoods. We want Barcelona to be a city for working people, a city to be lived in a city that beats to the rhythm of cooperativism.
During these ten years, Coòpolis has consolidated itself as a node of knowledge and support, uniting entities, projects and people looking for an economic model that does not suffocate them. We have shown, from evidence and emotion, that another economy is possible and necessary.
The poster: memory and cooperative symbolism
The anniversary poster, designed by La Pera Comunicació, is inspired by an illustration from July 1930, the work of Lluís Ardiaca, a young amateur cooperativist closely linked to the Federation of Cooperatives, the Socialist Union of Catalonia and the Union of Robbers. Ardiaca was secretary of the Cooperation Service of the Generalitat within the Department of Agriculture and Economy, and during the Civil War he became director general of Agriculture under the ministry of Josep Calvet.
The original illustration responds to a workmanlike art deco style with influences from Soviet constructivism. It highlights the figure of the woman as an allegory of cooperation, with an oval face and no iris, and an iridescent rainbow as a symbol of cooperation. Flags evoke internationalism. In the original illustration you can read on the buildings in Russian references to cooperatives and cooperative warehouses, in clear allusion to Soviet cooperative economic planning.
Looking ahead to the next 10 years
Our challenge now is to become even more relevant. In the next decade, Coòpolis must continue to be an engine that activates initiatives and influences public policies to be a key part of a resilient and transformative system. We are an essential project because we are useful, alive and rooted in the territory. Come celebrate 10 years of struggle, cooperation and life!
