URBAN NOTES 2022

Urban Notes 2022: Sants’ urban reality Urban notes* is an entertaining community activity, in which architecture students and in some cases, associations and neighbourhood groups share a pleasant moment, exchange visions and ideas about the place, and so bring architects into closer contact with residents. The teaching objective of the new subject is to present the methodologies of urban and architectural analysis through hand drawing (urban sketching) and other mixed techniques (hybrid drawing). Urban sketching allows students first to observe a reality, become aware of it and provide their own interpretations. It provides a channel for dialogue between participants to develop urban strategies.  Here, we present this third formal experience as an elective course for the ETSAB in the department of AR (Architectural representation), developed in the Sants neighborhood with the collaboration of Lacol, Coopolis, the Sants market merchants' association, the Vapor Vell library and Can Battló. The course was developed with numerous urban drawing sessions, interviews and presentations by parts of the people involved, and a final collective map exercise. This work (2022) was coordinated by Prof. Bruno Seve (AR Department, instagram@brunosevedraws) with Prof. Zaida Muxi (DUOT), Salvador Gilabert (AR Department), and Arquitectxs de Cabecera (AC). As a final part of the workshop, our students have suggested an online exhibition using an Instagram account: @urbannotes_etsab. We kindly invite you to have a look: URBAN NOTES / ONLINE EXHIBITION Drawing by David Piquer.