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Project meeting in Barcelona

On the first meeting day, we visited the exhibition « Connected Barcelona, Transnational Citizens » and discussed the MUHBA strategic plan and the topic of contemporary collecting. In the afternoon, we walked through the district El Raval where we got impressions of the fieldwork done with and by foreign communities. First, we had a visit to the primary school CEIP Drassanes on our program, where children with different cultural backgrounds come together. Then, we visited the Pakistanese Women Association ACESOP. This association work is aimed to a women group, which is quite invisible in the local social level and whose role may be of paramount importance in the children education. ACESOP works out activities that integrate women to Barcelona social and economic life and facilitate children involvement. After that, we had a cup of delicious Moroccan mint tea, offered by the president of  the ASCIB (Associació Sociocultural IBN BATUTA). She and her colleague presented her association and their everyday work, before we discussed several questions brought up by our group. We enjoyed the end of the day in the restaurant “Ryad Raval” with Moroccan food and - stimulated by the atmosphere and the food – with some dancing. On the second day, we heard presentations by Laurence Rassel (Fundació Antoni Tàpies) t.b.c., Imma Boj (Immigration Museum, Sant Adrià, metropolitan Barcelona), Joan Mayné (Barcelona City Museum, metropolitan Barcelona) and Jordi Blasco (Archive Cultures) t.b.c. about “Archives, images and objects. Collecting contemporary city history and collecting the community’s present. Arts, history, anthropology: methodological trends and problems.” In the afternoon, our European project members Elisabeth Tietmeyer (vice-director, MEK, Berlin) and Zvjezdana Antos (senior curator, Ethnographic Museum Zagreb) held presentations about the “Possibilities and difficulties of collecting “the present””. On the third day, we had an interesting tour through the district La Mina and got many impressions of the everyday life and work. We met representations from a neighbourhood association and the radio station “Radio la Mina” before we had a visit in the Immigration Museum in Barcelona and the final common dinner in a restaurant by the sea front.

barcelona 06/09

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