City in Action
Academic experimentation in action-based design and communication in the city.
City in Action is an academic environment of experimentation between everyday life, city and politics. It has been developed in two different courses with 3rd year GDIS students with mention in graphic design and one of the main objectives is to explore different counterdisciplinary approaches to the communication in the city based on direct action, radical intimacy and intersubjective engagement.
Urban thresholds and limits
The 21-22 course’s brief was to define and explore a personal definition of an urban limit and after that to intervene it with weekly embodied actions of critique or desire. Some examples:
I'm not you're fucking secret, Aina Cuatrecasas & Raquel Bonet
An act of critique and resistance against sexual-affective irresposability
M de Macba M de Macho, Tomas &Ellis
A series of actions denouncing the inherently masclist content of the MACBA permanent exhibition.
Museo Urbano (MUO), Sara Barcons & Caros Álvarez
A virtual expo and a guide of instructions to access to bourgeois art, enclosed in private properties
Martiris Nocturns, Silvia Masclans& Pau Ventanyol
A series of interventions in different Bibles implemented in front of the Cathedral Santa Maria del Mar, an editorial piece of personal stories of abused children transmitted into an online podcast and a campaign of mailing to different religious centers to notify of the broadcast.
Celebrate queerness
The 22-23 course’s brief was to define and explore your personal urban tribe based on intimate affinities and queer desires and to write a manifest in order afterwards to vindicate, consolidate and activate it through a series of action-based interventions and collective rituals. Some examples:
Nostalgia Cutre, Mireia Martin
A song and an urban intervention based on a series of postal cards, found in different flea markets.
Bellakas, Mira Ballestro, Adriana Vila & Elisa de la Serna
3 songs, a videoclip and different acts of vindication of queerness and perreo as practices of defense of human rights.
Brama lo Mamao, Andrea Grau
A series of body accessories, decontextualized objet trouvé compositions, eclectic graphics implementations, etc as acts of vindication of the importance of the constant compenetration between urban and rural.
