Barreira Arte+Disegno
Dijon – Mainz – Valencia
The project is part of a research context involving the art and design schools of three European institutions
- École nationale supérieure d’art et design de Dijon
- Hochschule Mainz-University of Applied Sciences
- Barreira Centro Oficial de Estudios Superiores Arte+Disegno
Focusing on the quality of life in urban public spaces, making local life possible and comfortable, diversifying uses, and returning the use of city spaces to residents: all these efforts contribute to forging new ways of thinking, new ethics of sharing, new citizenships, and setting achievable sustainable development goals on a small scale. This is an important part of the project’s objective, with a pedagogical character deeply rooted in these issues, but also with a desire to act, to act together, to act by listening, to act here and to thus propose some ideas for a more social, more sustainable city that does not rely solely on commercialization and makes room for human interaction: meeting, exchanging, playing…
Workshop in Dijon – Street Food Cultures
From February 20 to 24, 2023, the École nationale supérieure d’art et design de Dijon invited its two European partners to gather for an intercultural workshop on street food cultures in public spaces.
Workshop in Valencia – Street Art and Graphic Design
From April 21 to 26, 2024, students from the three institutions gathered in Valencia for an intercultural workshop that resulted in the creation of murals and a publication featuring three designers: Odile Decq, Marianne Brandt, and Antonio Gaudi.
Workshop in Mainz – Europe and Its Borders
Organized from March 31 to April 4 in Mainz, the third intercultural workshop will focus on the theme of Europe and its borders.