Veïns, cases, carrers i places [Residents, Houses, Streets and Squares]
Installation
Wood and photographs
Variables sizes 

The final piece, a large model made from wooden modules, was generated from the exploration of the city, the group's closest environment. The city was the framework for reflection during residency, more specifically an area from the gun batteries at El Carmel to the Gràcia neighbourhood. Various different approaches were taken throughout the process, from outings, organised visits, photographic explorations and so on. Particular emphasis was also placed on the Archive of Gràcia  and the collection of old photographs of the neighbourhood, which were eventually included in the installation as a way of invoking the people and histories that inhabit and have inhabited the city.

Presentation
The presentation of Veïns, cases, carrers i places [Residents, Houses, Streets and Squares] took place on June 6 in the exhibition room at the Biblioteca Jaume Fuster library. There, the participating pupils, with Domènec and the teacher Andreu Álvarez, described the different stages in the creative process and explained the different parts of the piece on show. The introductory text to the exhibition, jointly written by pupils and artist, read as follows:

“Over the 2015-2016 academic year, a group of second-year secondary pupils at Institut Serrat i Bonastre, with Domènec, worked on a creative research process that focused on three main themes: the city, its transformations over time and its people.”

Veïns, cases, carrers i places [Residents, Houses, Streets and Squares] is the result of this research process, which took us to different sites in the city of Barcelona between the gun batteries at El Carmel and the Gràcia neighbourhood. The layout of streets, the arrangement of squares and other spaces have changed over the years, affected by different phenomena: historic events, urban planning developments, popular festivities, residents' protests, migrant shanty towns, air-raid shelters and so on.

The issues we explored over the course were condensed into a large model formed by wooden modules, a reworking and reinterpretation of part of the city. Moreover, over the course of this process, we searched for documentation in the Gràcia Bibliographic Collection, conserved by Biblioteca Jaume Fuster library, and the Gràcia Photographic Archive, from which the photographs in this piece were taken.”