Gri Gri Pixel, from Madrid to Dakar
24/03/2017.
Medialab Prado [MAD] Spain
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
Grigri Pixel is a program of residencies, meetings and workshops devoted to the creation of magical objects in urban spaces based on collaborative practices and digital manufacturing strategies from the African continent.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Detail of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Plans of the objects. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Plans of the objects. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Plans of the objects. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Composition. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Image of the assembly process in Dakar. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Plans of the objects. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Plans of the objects. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Plans of the objects. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Plans of the objects. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Plans of the objects. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Plans of the objects. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Composition. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Logo. Gri Gri Pixel Dakar. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
Logo. Gri Gri Pixel Madrid. Image courtesy of Gri Gri Pixel.
The aim of the Gri Gri Pixel is to reconnect experiences related to city-building in Africa and Europe in order to formulate common questions able to showcase synergies, points of intersection and differences in regard to practices and processes of care and maintenance in public spaces in those territories.
It is an initiative that operates by generating alliances with local spaces and communities in participating cities for the purpose of organising experimental workshops for collective construction of public copyright street furniture elements.
It is an initiative that operates by generating alliances with local spaces and communities in participating cities for the purpose of organising experimental workshops for collective construction of public copyright street furniture elements.
Description of the project by Gri Gri Pixel
After the initial phase in February-March 2016 at Medialab Prado, the experience continued in Dakar during the fifth edition of the Afropixel Festival, and it will carry on in Casablanca (Morocco) in July 2017.
The second edition of Grigri Pixel will be held in October 2017 at Medialab Prado (Madrid), with a production workshop organised in collaboration with Citizens’ Labs from the district’s Municipal Boards, in addition to other activities in the city’s cultural spaces. The initiative was also invited in Barcelona in November 2017, where a production workshop will be organised in collaboration with HANGAR and La Taula Eix Pere IV, entities which are located in the Poble Nou neighbourhood.
In 2018 the project is scheduled to continue in Bamako (Mali) and Lomé (Togo).
Grigri Pixel is a Medialab-Prado and Hangar project in association with ETSII (UPM) and BAU (UVIC).
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GRIGRI PIXEL is an initiative born in Medialab Prado by curator and cultural producer Susana Moliner, who has extensive experience in cultural production and mediation, having devoted herself in recent years to implementing Free Culture programmes on the African continent. The production labs will be designed and energised by Enorme Studio (Madrid), a team of architects specialising in tactical urbanism, as well as Yago Torroja (Madrid), an electronics engineer and professor at the Technical University of Madrid, and Blanca Callén (Barcelona), a researcher and professor at the BAU Design College of Barcelona who works in collaboration with HANGAR (Barcelona).
