Pis[o] Pilot[o] Medellín-Barcelona. A reflection on housing.

Both the CCCB and the Museo de Antioquia have turned into a laboratory in which debate, experiment and discover new proposals that will help provide an answer to the most important problems facing both cities and that could be extrapolated to other cities in the world. The exhibition at the CCCB includes 44 experimental projects, 11 of them from Medellín. This means that the exhibition in Medellín will show 12 proposals from Barcelona devised by local teams. You can check all the activities in both websites (Barcelona, Medellín).

The exhibition structure, designed by a team of curators comprising the architects Guillen Augé, Josep Bohigas, David Bravo, Alex Giménez, Anna Vergés and the curator from the Museo de Antioquia, Nydia Gutiérrez, is based on the sequence and exploration of three variables:

The housing problem.- This first section seeks to highlight the different problems and opportunities to be tackled around housing through a selection of the most revealing data that highlight reflection on different scales, comparing the situations of the two cities featured in the exhibition – Barcelona and Medellín – in an international context. Preface: The exhibition opens with an audiovisual piece by Benet Román that discusses the similarities between both cities, their long-standing cooperation and acknowledged transformation through a clear and courageous commitment to public space. The piece ends by looking at the new challenges they will be facing from now on. The challenges: There will be 17 challenges on display in the form of an installation made up of 17 doors. Each door displays the data about the subject in question, in Medellín and Barcelona and, in some cases, other geographical areas. On each of the doors you can listen to key excerpts from the interviews with experts who reflect on some of the details presented. Among the themes, we highlight «Empty flats», «Evictions» and «Energy Poverty».

Housing as a solution.- This space groups together the pilot schemes created by agents who have made important contributions to tackling the problem of housing from different areas, some of them opposed. These include academic research groups, local government agencies and initiatives driven by civil society, most of them in Medellín and Barcelona, but from other cities too. Their different solutions are not hegemonic but are particularly valuable insofar as they have been put into practice and their viability has been proven.

Reform, coexist, cooperate.- A space where an audiovisual montage will be screened which seeks to summarise the possible solutions to the housing problem which centre on the concept of reform, coexistence and cooperation. It features interviews with experts from a number of disciplines, including Carme Trilla, Albert Sorolla, Germà Bel, Antón Costas, Gal·la Pin, Vanesa Valiño, Beth Galí, Xavier Monteys, Josep Parcerisa, Santiago Cirujeda. 

IMPORTANT DATA.-

Dates.- CCCB: 4/5 to 25/10 2015. Museo de Antioquia: 24/6 to 20/9 2015.
Opening times (CCCB).- Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 8pm. Closed Monday, except public holidays.
Guided tours.- In Catalan: Sunday at 11.30am / In Spanish: Saturday at 11.30am.
Price.- 6 €. Reduced admission: 4 € for senior citizens, under 25s, large families, single-parent families and group visits (15 people minimum), and for everyone on Wednesdays. Free admission for under 16s, Friends of the CCCB, retirees holding the Targeta Rosa (Over 60s’ card), unwaged, holders of the teacher’s card issued by the Catalan Government, and on Sunday from 3pm to 8pm.