Design and production of Llums Comuns

La Traginera Comunalitat de Ciutat Vella and Santa Mònica propose a free and open workshop of design and construction of Llums Comuns ("Common Lights"). The aim of this workshop is to design and create lights in community. An opportunity to learn design techniques and the process of production with LEDs.

The workshop consists of two sessions:

• Session of creation and design of lights to explore collage and ideation techniques with Teresa Rubio (19.01 / 17h - 20h / Santa Mònica).
• Light production session with Curro Claret (20.01 / 10am - 1pm / Impulsem Workshop).

The pieces of lights produced in the workshop will be displayed inside the Santa Mònica from 29 January to 4 February.

Places are limited. To participate, please reserve your place by filling in the following form:
Waiting list (seats complete).

This workshop is part of the community project Llums Comuns, which is committed to art and public space as a common good. Currently, also within the framework of Llums Comuns, a light installation based on the work Liberty and Light by the artist Chila Kumari, which was produced at Impulsem, in the Raval neighbourhood, for the Llum BCN 2023 festival, is being exhibited at the centre. Once the exhibition is over, the lights from the installation will be made available to the Raval neighbourhood so that they can be used as a community resource.

By Teresa Rubio and Curro Claret

Project promoted by Santa Mònica and La Traginera, Comunalitat de Ciutat Vella.

In collaboration with Impulsem and the Raval(s) Culture Festival.

Teresa Rubio comes from art history, artistic mediation and collage practice. She works with the imaginative, poetic and critical potential of artistic processes to generate situations of encounter, exchange and possibility. He is interested in relaxing museums, the relationship between art and health, working with the body and collage as language and total metaphor.

Curro Claret is an independent designer with more than 30 years of experience. He teaches industrial design at Elisava and other institutions and contributes to the FAD. His work has been widely exhibited and published and has received numerous distinctions. Since 2015, together with Maria Güell, they have worked on the design of the #RavalKm0 project.

Impulsem is a non-profit social initiative cooperative located in the Ciutat Vella District, in the Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona, in a former 19th century factory of more than 1,600m². Thanks to a multidisciplinary team, since the 1990s we have been working to improve the quality of life of citizens, developing actions of an integrating nature in the educational, social, employment and lifelong learning fields.
impulsem.org

La Traginera, Comunalitat de Ciutat Vella, is a training and support project for urban economic revitalisation, aimed at strengthening and expanding the community and local economic fabric. It is promoted by five organisations in the Ciutat Vella district: the Tot Raval Foundation, the Surt Foundation and the cooperatives Colectic, Impulsem and La Boqueria architecture studio.
https://comunalitats.cat/comunalitats/la-traginera