A research on Barcelona sociocultural, political and economical issues will be initially and individually planned at the end of the first term. Readings, visioning of documentaries and check of references will help in this process. This investigation will have a major focus on local ways of living, different cultural customs and spatial characteristics where everyday life takes place. Findings will be expressed in different analytical diagrams, video fragments, photographs and information maps that will be completed after the unit trip and edited in a booklet. The major aim of this exercise is to define each block context and content.
Reference books for diagrams:
Reference books for diagrams: – David McCandless, Knowledge is Beautiful, London: William Collins, 2014. – Steven Heller, Infographics Designers’ Sketchbooks, New York: Princeton Architectural Press , 2014.
Photography: Tino Soriano, Xavier Misetachs, José Porroche, Ignacio Loyola. – Tino Soriano, 2004, Catalans. Barcelona: Edicions 62. https://www.tinosoriano.com/es/portada – José Porroche, 2015, Keeping Barcelona Weird is Not a One Man Job. Barcelona: Clandestine.
Documentaries & Movies: City for Sale (2018), Waiting for Barcelona (2018), bye, Bye Barcelona, Biutiful by A.G. Iñarritu (2010), Vicky Cristina Barcelona by W. Allen (2008), En construcción by Guerín (2001), All about my mother by P.Almodovar (1999)
Readings: On Catalan Culture – Dominic Keown, 2011, A Companion to Catalan Culture, London: Tamesis Books. Google Books. – Davies, Lloyd H.; Walters D. Gareth &Hall, John B. (eds.), 2018, Catalan Culture: Experimentation, Creative Imagination and the Relationship with Spain. Swansea: University of Wales Press. Barcelona social, cultural political and anthropological studies – Helena Buffery & Carlota Caulfield, 2012, Barcelona : visual culture, space and power, Cardiff: University of Wales Press. Jstor – Manuel Delgado & Anna Juan: Barcelona rooftops: between earth and sky, Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2012 – Joan Ramon Resina, 2008, Barcelona’s vocation of modernity : rise and decline of an urban image. Stanford University Press. – Chiara Ingrosso, 2011, Barcelona : architecture, city and society, 1975-2015. Milano: Skira.
