Els tres Pallars

Els tres Pallars

In 1916, Cebrià Montoliu organised the Exposición de Construcción Cívica y Habitación Popular (Exhibition of Civic Construction and Traditional Housing) in the Social Museum of Barcelona, with the aim of explaining the evolution of the city through organic urban planning. One of the projects he included was a garden city on a block in the Provençals de Poblenou area, a project that was never completed. In collaboration with the Historical Archive of Poblenou, this project traces the material and social history of this block and its surroundings in order to explain the process of gentrification in Barcelona.
 

Xavier Acarín Wieland

Xavier Acarín Wieland is a curator and teacher. With an interest in material performativity, urban studies and exhibition history, his projects have been presented at the Abrons Arts Centre in New York, La Ira de Dios in Buenos Aires, HIAP in Helsinki and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona, among others. He has published articles and interviews for specialist magazines such as Terremoto and is the co-author of four books, including Designing Experience (Bloomsbury, 2014).