Creative Factories- Studio

In Studio, we have three professors, two who are Spanish and one who is Belgian but lives here. So the 21 of us broke up in three groups of 7. Each group has a different site somewhere in Barcelona, where we have to design a "Creative Factory"- basically a place where artists/creative people of different sorts collect together and work and exhibit and such. We visited one such place, Hangar (pronounced without the H) that you can see below. After breaking up in groups of 7, we broke up into groups of 2-3 to further design, and then finally once we have a bunch of decisions and rules in place we go off on our own after this Thursday's Mid-term and design our own individual projects.

Here's some work from Hangar. This guy is kind of a desconstructionist, and actually takes things apart and puts them back together- usually he finds used or discarded things, even like bottles or orange peels, but here he bought a new pair of shoes, cut them into pieces, and then reassembled the pieces. Weird.

This was a view from Hangar out the window- I kinda like the composition of the photo.

This was someone's old Mac screwed to a door.

Another guy's art on the wall in his studio. I thought this was a pretty cool sequence.

A mural outside on the building

Later then, we also visited OUR site, Fabra i Coats, that was an old thread making place. Its pretty big. But there are creative things going on there right now as well actually.

This was all yarn that had black lights on behind it. Pretty sweet sculpture.

This was a movie set they were filming on in the warehouse.

And this is an empty portion of the warehouse. HUGE.

This was on the floor next to a window: "CAUTION! KEEP YOUR HEAD OFF THIS AREA".

"Good Touch". HI-larious.