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Main themes Barcelona Art Factories – Old industrial spaces, new cultural uses Sub themes Urban regeneration through CCI Decentralising the cultural offer to city districts Places to be visited 1 Barcelona Art Factories – Old industrial spaces, new cultural uses Barcelona City Council’s Culture Institute set up the Art Factories programme in 2007 to expand the city’s network of public facilities designed to support cultural creation and production. Many of these facilities are former factory buildings that have been refitted for use by artists, cultural agents and organisations involved in promoting creation. The Art Factories help strengthen the city’s networks and enrich its cultural fabric and aspire to become benchmark centres creating new discourses and contents based on excellence and quality. The spaces included in the Barcelona Art Factory programme are: Fabra i Coats. Graner. La Seca. La Escocesa. La Caldera. La Central del Circ. L'Ateneu Popular 9 Barris. Hangar. Sala Beckett/Obrador. Nau Ivanow. 2 WHAT IS IT? The Art Factories programme is based on transforming disused spaces into new powerhouses of culture and knowledge. The goal is to put creativity, knowledge and innovation at the heart of the city’s policies. Launched by Barcelona City Council’s Culture Institute, the project meets a longstanding demand by creators and collectives for spaces equipped for artistic creation and research. The Art Factories are therefore ideal spaces for cultural innovation and production. The end goal is to see culture as one of the city’s strategic assets as it develops its economic, social and urban aspects, as well as boosting its inhabitants’ creativity. Creativity here should be understood in its broadest possible sense, embracing artistic skills, intellectual exchange, critical thought, research, and leisure and fun-based initiatives. In addition, the Art Factories also aim to offer young creators the opportunity to take their first steps towards honing their skills on the path towards professionalisation. WHO IS INVOLVED? This living network of municipally owned facilities welcomes new spaces as members. It currently comprises: • Spaces with a strong history of support from the city’s art collectives. Their membership backs initiatives that have helped and promoted creators for many years: Ateneu Popular 9 Barris, Hangar and Nau Ivanow. • New facilities run by agents and institutions representing different artistic areas: La Central del Circ, Graner, La Seca and La Escocesa, for example. • One 100% municipally run factory, Fabra i Coats, set up as the central hub of the project. 3 WHAT SHAPE DO THEY TAKE? Barcelona Art Factories is an integrating programme that works by joining forces and forging ties – a new model of management that eschews the usual trend of government administrations to create uniform, standard management networks. It works directly with the different groups that run the facilities, who are the ones that really shape and structure the project and make it grow. Barcelona City Council’s Culture Institute has signed specific collaboration agreements to run each facility in keeping with the different character of each centre, the artistic disciplines covered and the collectives working there. All this has only been possible following the major process to design and fit out these spaces: in total over 30,000 m2 have been given over entirely to support artistic and cultural creation and production. KEYS TO THE PROJECT The project can be explained through five key interlocking pillars that underpin its conceptual identity and, as part of a single strategy, cannot be understood in isolation. • Quality. The project strives to achieve the maximum possible quality in the work carried out in the factories, as well as ensure a rigorous and professional approach by all concerned. • Professional networks. The factories should be agents with links to other professional networks (educational, social, business, academic) and should thus foster the development of new initiatives. • Multidisciplinarity. The design of the project itself calls implicitly for multiple languages, disciplines and contributions and therefore offers an open vision and the necessary flexibility to foster creativity. • Internationalisation. The factories will only be powerhouses for local development if they put forward projects on international circuits and promote strategic positioning and projection of a unique identity, vision and hallmark. • Hybrid management between the public and private sectors. Any sustainable project calls for hybrid management and shared ties between the public and private sectors, where everyone plays their respective role. This project brings creativity, innovation and culture together to enrich the city and make it a cohesive whole as they give it impetus in two directions: outwards and forwards. 4 DISTRICTS OF BARCELONA Barcelona is divided into 10 districts. These are administrated by a councillor designated by the main city council, and each of them have some powers relating to issues such as urbanism or infrastructure in their area. The current division of the city into different districts was approved in 1984. In 2009, in Barcelona started using a new division of 73 neighbourhoods (the 10 districts are still in use), a division that was done for a better service from the City Council. Some of these districts have a previous history as independent municipalities which were integrated into the city of Barcelona during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, such as Sarrià, Les Corts, Sant Andreu de Palomar, Gràcia or Sant Martí de Provençals. However, other municipalities which are contiguous to Barcelona (such as L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Badalona, Sant Adrià de Besòs or Montcada i Reixac) have remained separate towns to this day, and are part of the much larger metropolitan area of Barcelona. Barcelona Arts Factories are in the next districts: Art Factory: Fabra i Coats District: Sant Andreu. Art Factory: Graner District: Sants-Montjuïc. Art Factory: La Seca District: Ciutat Vella. Art Factory: La Escocesa District: Sant Martí. Art Factory: La Caldera District: Les Corts. Art Factory: La Central del Circ District: Sant Martí. Art Factory: L'Ateneu Popular 9 Barris District: Nou Barris. Art Factory: Hangar District: Sant Martí. Art Factory: Sala Beckett/Obrador District: Sant Martí. Art Factory: Nau Ivanow District: Sant Andreu. 5 Size Density Number District Population Neighbourhoods km² hab/km Ciutat La Barceloneta, El Gòtic, El Raval, Sant Pere, 1 4.49 111,290 24,786 Vella Santa Caterina i la Ribera L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample, La Nova 2 Eixample 7.46 262,485 35,586 Esquerra de l'Eixample, Dreta de l'Eixample,Fort Pienc, Sagrada Família, Sant Antoni la Bordeta, la Font de la Guatlla, Hostafrancs, la Sants- Marina de Port, la Marina del Prat Vermell, El 3 21.35 177,636 8,321 Montjuïc Poble-sec, Sants, Sants-Badal, Montjuïc*, Zona Franca - Port* 4 Les Corts 6.08 82,588 13,584 les Corts, la Maternitat i Sant Ramon, Pedralbes Sarrià- El Putget i Farró, Sarrià, Sant Gervasi - la 5 Sant 20.09 140,461 6,992 Bonanova, Sant Gervasi - Galvany, les Tres Gervasi Torres, Vallvidrera, Tibidabo i les Planes Vila de Gràcia, el Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia 6 Gràcia 4.19 120,087 28,660 Nova, la Salut, el Coll, Vallcarca i els Penitents. El Baix Guinardó, El Guinardó, Can Baró, El Horta- Carmel, la Font d'en Fargues, Horta, la 7 11.96 169,920 14,217 Guinardó Clota, Montbau, Sant Genís dels Agudells, la Teixonera, La Vall d'Hebron. Can Peguera, Canyelles, Ciutat Meridiana, La Guineueta, Porta, La Prosperitat, les Nou 8 8.04 164,981 20,520 Roquetes, Torre Baró, la Trinitat Nova, El Turó de Barris la Peira, Vallbona, Verdum,Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta Baró de Viver, Bon Pastor, El Congrés i els Sant 9 6.56 142,598 21,737 Indians, Navas, Sant Andreu de Palomar,La Andreu Sagrera i Trinitat Vella El Besòs i el Maresme, el Clot, El Camp de l'Arpa del Clot, Diagonal Mar i el Front Marítim del Sant Poblenou, el Parc i la Llacuna del 10 10.80 221,029 20,466 Martí Poblenou, Poblenou, Provençals del Poblenou, Sant Martí de Provençals, La Verneda i la Pau, la Vila Olímpica del Poblenou 1. (*) Monjuïc and Zona Franca are not neighbourhoods but are in the district of Sants-Montjuïc. 6 Projects and policies to be presented / places to be visited Day one: May, 18th, 2016. Name: Palau de la Virreina Address: Les Rambles, 99 - 08001 Barcelona Map: https://goo.gl/maps/SGyCGYSKLk22 A baroque building welcomes you in Barcelona's Rambla, past Carme street, and it will awaken your curiosity because its highly-decorated façade and the interior courtyard and staircases give a glimpse of wealth and power. Go inside Palau de la Virreina and maybe you will be surprised by some art exhibition organised there. A mysterious aura surrounds this building in Ramblas, where nowadays the headquarters of Barcelona's City Council Culture Institute (Institut de Cultura de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona) are located. Behind its name we will find that the vicereine (virreina in Catalan) was the wife of Peru's viceroy, Manuel Amat Junyent, Castellbell's marquis. He wanted to show his wealth by building a very ostentatious residence in Barcelona. He chose a style between baroque and rococo, which was not quite common in the city. The marquis himself directed the work from Peru with the help of the architect Carles Grau between 1772 and 1778. However, the viceroy did not enjoy the residence for a long time because he died shortly after returning to Barcelona. His widow, Maria Francesa de Fiveller and de Bru, was the main occupant. It is worth visiting the Palau de la Virreina, a jewel of Barcelona's local baroque, contemplating the main façade decorated with pilasters and a large balustrade with twelve vases and going into the interior courtyard from which a staircase starts.