Written by Xavier Villanueva, Barcelona FestSpace team researcher. Barcelona’s FestSpace team has produced a short video to bring together the objectives of the research and to summarise its key outcomes. It includes the perspective of the five cities participating via the contributions of the principal investigators of the project, members of their teams and some […]
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FestSpace Barcelona team headed by Julie Wilson and coordinated as chairs by Alba Colombo and Bernadette Quinn, coordinates the session The Multifaceted Relationship between Festivals Events & Public Space at the IGU Paris 2022 Centennial Congress (https://www.ugiparis2022.org/). The call for abstracts is now open! Research has highlighted the critical and multifaceted role of festivals held […]
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A Cors Muts focused research has been presented at the City, Public Space & Body Conference Goldsmiths University. On December 15, The FestSpace Barcelona team presented the paper “Silent Choirs: space, body and identity“ at the City, Public Space & Body Conference hosted by the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths University. The festival […]
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Barcelona Festspace team presents a content analysis of the Mercè opening speeches Written by Xavier Villanueva, Barcelona FestSpace team researcher. Last September 22nd Festspace team was invited by the Institute of Culture of Barcelona (ICUB) to present a content analysis of the opening speeches from the Mercé (1975-2020) in the Casa dels Entremesos, a public […]
Read MoreCreative Methodological Readaptations from Barcelona FestSpace team A webinar, organised by HERA (May 25th, 2021), was designed to discuss field research challenges in pandemic time and to explore new digital worlds in research activities. Representatives of 5 different projects (Healthcare as Public Space, Food2Gather, Public Space in European Social Housing, Intoxicating Spaces and FestSpace) from […]
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Rome Statute In a city with a high density and agglomeration, the Barcelona research team, focused on observing, during the first stage of the project, the intensity of uses of diverse public spaces in the city by events and culture festivals. The project analyses the coexistence of different events in these spaces alongside the creation […]
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