00  WHAT |
| Cultural industries |
| In the last decennia Barcelona promotes itself as the vanguard city where
diversity, creativity, new technologies and public spaces are mobilized
for urban economic development. For example, Forum 2004 and the economic
development initiative 22@ (which redevelops 200 hectares in Poble Nou
for the cultural industries) are telling examples how Barcelona translates
its discourse on diversity and public spaces in economic production. At
the same time, many political and economic decision makers in Barcelona
perceive bottom-to-up artistic and creative initiatives as a nuisance or
an obstacle in the urban social and economic regeneration of the city.
Yet, these civil society initiatives embrace also the central importance
of vital, inclusive and diverse public spaces for the well-being of Barcelona.
Evidence of the negative attitude of the rather negative climate for bottom
social-cultural innovative initiatives is the current debate about the
future use of the site Can Ricart, the new law on the regulation of public
spaces, the recent closure of several social centres in Barcelona and the
recent prohibition of the traditional street festival 'Botellón'. Is it possible to conceive public spaces where economic innovation (especially cultural industries) can further in positive synergy with bottom social and cultural innovation? Can we create a 'zona franca' for urban creativity? The Barcelonese research project aims to analyse how urban interventions (a) can contribute to the establishment of a sustained network of bottom-to-up initiatives that reaches out in an inclusive way to all sectors of the urban fabric; (b) how these micro-initiatives can be mobilised to become a resource-bank for urban innovation; (c) how urban interventions can broken sensible bridges between these spontaneous creative initiatives that benefits from the human and social resources already available in the city and the overall urban discourse propagated at the extra-local level. |
| 01 NEWS |
 17th of JuneKRAX – Poble Nou, Futuros usos de Can Ricart Collaborate with your ideas! Get informed on citizen participation in Barcelona and other cities. Play the ‘Muro de las peticiones’ game and propose your aspirations on spaces in your neighbourhood Listen to ‘the voices of Can Ricart” Share your ideas with the neighbourhood KRAX, originates from a research from Johan Moyersoen (Oxford University, School of Geography) on ‘Cracks in the City’- about lost places in the city that slipped out of the glamour and usefulness of the city. KRAX, is a project-process to identify the urban cracks in the city and to mobilize and empower the neighbourhood and affected groups in the re-conceptualization and re-design (socially as well as physically) of these spots. The first KRAX intervention is around the future of Can Ricart in Poble Nou, an industrial place which is currently subject to tense discussions within the city about its future. At the moment there is disquietly very little involvement of the neighbourhood or from creative bottom-up groups who are or have used the place for their creative production. KRAX aims to open up and re-democratize the discussion about the future of this emblematic space by creating a platform to hear and see the real needs and wishes of the people experiencing the space in daily life. News on latest developments of the struggle of the Platform ‘Salvem Can Ricart: www.salvemcanricart.org “Fadaiat and the interior frontiers in the metropolis” 20th till 25th of June 2006, Can Ricart www.fadaiat.net |
| Collaboration
with Instituto Catalán de Antropología The collaboration with ICA (Instituto Catalán de Antropología) consists in documenting the opinions and ideas of on one hand involved people in the past and continuing social struggle in Can Ricart. The results of their investigation will be taken into the local conference and exposition. |
| Fire incidence
at Can Ricart see : http://www.visquemcanricart.tk |
| 02 AGENDA |
| :: WORKSHOPS (MARCH-MAY
2006)
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| :: what The Barcelona conference is the launch of KRAX., an investigation in civil participation and an urban intervention in the public space to involvw the neighbourhood in the decision making process of the future use of Can Ricart in Poble Nou :: program Expo on information and practises how urban intervention can be mobilized to promote Civil Participation in urban Game ‘muro de las peticiones’ on the public space that involves neighbours to deliberate about their needs and wishes for the neighbourhood. Record-stations to hear the ‘voices of Can Ricart’. Statements of involved people in the struggle about the conservation of this empty factory. -:: when 17th of June 2006 --- 16h till 20h :: venue Rambla Poble Nou |
| :: CONFERENCE » LOCAL
JUNE 2006
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:: what This conference aims to analyse bottom-to-up artistic/creative initiatives and foremost their importance to promote a diverse and vibrant city and their pivotal role as incubator for cultural industry in Barcelona. This discussion will be introduced by the juxtaposition in Barcelona between large-scale, citywide projects such as 22@ and Forum2004 with Bottom-to-up projects such as Can Ricart and Forat de la Vergonya. :: program This conference aims to analyse bottom-to-up artistic/creative initiatives and foremost their importance to promote a diverse and vibrant city and their pivotal role as incubator for cultural industry in Barcelona. This discussion will be introduced by the juxtaposition in Barcelona between large-scale, citywide projects such as 22@ and Forum2004 with Bottom-to-up projects such as Can Ricart and Forat de la Vergonya. :: Conference program: INTRO introduction GE and report workshops TEMA Cultural Industries versus bottom-to-up artistic-creative initiatives (Key Note-speakers: persons in fieldwork and research) CAN RICART Presentation Can Ricart and proposal of 'Zona Franca of urban creativity' Discussion Panel: 3 persons -:: when June 16, 2006 :: venue To be announced |
| 03 RESOURCES |
| :: Ge-
research project» Critical reporter is: Ana Betancour Collaboration with :Instituto Catalán de Antropología (ICA) |
Ana Betancour architect and professor of
Architecture at the Royal he collaboration with ICA (Instituto
Catalán de Antropología) consists in documenting
the opinions and ideas of on one hand involved people in the past and
continuing social
struggle in Can Ricart, and on the other hand the guests for the workshop.
The group of ICA is conducting interviews, taped in audio or video, that
will result in a document that hopefully will be presented at the local
conference and GE-conference (Sept 8, 2006 in Brussels). This research
material will also take part of the exposition that explains and shows
the concept of our ‘Zona Franca’.
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| :: PUBLICATIONS |
| To be announced |
| :: ARCHIVE
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| Information on : Can Ricart see : visquemcanricart.tk & salvemcanricart.org Zona Franca: elconsorci.net Barcelona Cultural Industries: cultura.gencat.net/icic |
| 04 PARTENERSHIP |
| :: Platoniq Platoniq is a group of cultural producers, curators and software developers that organizes independent community media projects, by mobilising their computer and technical knowledge and social commitment. More specifically Platoniq’s main interests are community building tools, social software and networked strategies for public spaces. It straddles the fields of communication, digital creation and criticism, seeking to create bridges between the work of cultural agents and producers. Platoniq’s principal goal is the interaction between the new technologies, popular culture and the social event, with the intention of establishing connections between Internet/new media and public, physical space. On this basis, Platoniq researches into the possible social uses of technology and online work, in order to find more effective strategies which would be able to develop new forms of communication, formation, self-organisation, new types of work or citizen participation. :: ICA :: Nau 21 Nau21 is the folow-up after the closedown of Can Font in the industrial complex Can Ricart. Can Font was during 10 years an artist place of 2000m2 of workplaces. Now, that the place is shut down and waiting for a future destination, different of these artists and new interests gathered to work on a future project of the place. A weekly reunion and public discussions working on the real posibilities for this root place. Nau21 is a place of free production, exhcangement and dialog, destinated to projects open to collaborate with idffernt artistic disciplines and sorts of creation. A meeting centre that gives oportunities and ideas in all disciplines involved with sience, art and tecnology. :: Sitesize Sitesize is a colective investigating urban expansion and all type of interventions influing daily live and eighbours in the city. Sitesize work with all type of expresions to express these investigations. Video, audio, workshops, exchangments or conferences. Their also try to present a workingmodel linked with relacionated actions, a production mecanism of collective knowledge and a communication strategy. Sitesize started in 2005 a serrie of conferences organized in collaboration with about 10 different collectives, 'Repensem Barcelona, Recuperar la ciutat'. Conferences touching different urban themes and organized in different neighbours of Barcelona. They pganised 40 conferences last year. Because of the succes and also political intrest, they started a second serrie this year. This group willl also collaborate in the local and global conference of City Mine(d). :: Urbmedia In the origin of their work we find a reflection about the role of technologies in the registration of the city. From this came the idea of necesity to create a vision about the consecuence of these technologies in the action of the creative collectives and professionals who are working registrating by the city. A reflection that points out the positive influence that these technologies and digital contents (can) have in this responsible work of the 'registraters'. Also how these techniques help in the action process of projects, such as in the communication between the different actors and interested people. Urbmedia makes the dialog and promotes the presents of these techniques in the the urban interventions and actions. :: City Mine(d) BARCELONA In march 2003 City Mine(d) started their activities in Barcelona. The plan was to learn about the city and search for possibilities to intervene with social-artistic project on (semi-) public spaces in Barcelona in collaboration with local and international partners on topical themes. From the start, City Mine(d) developed a constructive collaboration with the Centre De Cultura Contemporánia De Barcelona (CCCB), and different smaller artistic, research and activist groups (Las Agencias, Riereta, Sitesize, Straddle3, La Macabra, Can Font,..). The different projects realized during the last years were concentrated in the neighbourhood Poblenou, which is an important area in the city with a complete transformation on social, cultural and economical investments. Two important projects in 2004 an 2005 were: ParcCentralPark and VisquemCanRicart. City Mine(d) Barcelona received also support in 2005 from the Generalitat de Catalunya, Culture. citymined.org | visquemcanricart.tk | parccentralpark.net  »»  »»   »»  |
| 05 CONTACT |
| Tom Deforce: 0034 635 855 434 tom@citymined.org » generalizedempowerment.org/barcelona |