Ocupar el Centre amb la Paraula

Temporary abolition of a monument. A manifesto for an open city and an agonistic public space.

We defend the public space as a space of life, instead of a space of mere representation. For this reason, we deside to cover the fountain of the Three Graces, temporarily occupying the center of Plaça Reaial with a structure that encourages free appropriation by any citizen who wants to speak. 'Occupying the center with the word' has an infrastructural as well as a symbolic sense—it is a spatial system that triggers debate by temporarily transforming the urban sphere and, at the same time, it is a manifesto for an open city and an agonistic public space.

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Elisava Research:Roger Paez, Albert Fuster, Manuela Valtchanova, Toni Montes

MODEL Festival d’Arquitectures de Barcelona (Eva Franch, Beth Galí, José Luís de Vicente) CoAC x Ajuntament de Barcelona

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