Mariona Cañadas and Pedro Murúa IN RESiDENCE at the School Escola El Molí

How do we relate to the spaces we inhabit?

We propose starting this process with Pensar el terra – maneres de terra. Our relationship with spaces involves an initial interaction, the realisation that we are in a specific place/point. Generally, sight gives us signals of what is around us, but all the other senses help us to determine what this space is like and how we feel in it. In this look at the body/space relationship, there is the ground that supports us, that we step on with every step, that we manipulate according to the activities we want to do.  Underneath this ground there is also life, we also find sedimented history. In general, the way we use the ground indicates how we relate to the world.

This opens up many questions, which we will open up to the group:  What is our physical relationship with the ground?  In what ways do we occupy it? What materials is it made of? What lies beneath the ground we walk on? Can we measure it, quantify it? What ground do we walk on in the city? And elsewhere?