Friday october 7th, at 7.30pm, projection of
Destruir y construir, video documentary about the factory of
Can Ricart, in Barcelona's neighborhood of
Poblenou.
Can Ricart was a group of factories active in Barcelona since mid-19th century: in its construction had been involved
important architects of catalan modernism. During the years of Barcelona's real estate euphoria (2000-2008), the City Council authorized the demolition of an important part of the premises, with no regard to the
protests and the
detailed studies who asked respect for the
industrial heritage. Similar to what is happening in other parts of town, recently the administration admitted that it
hasn't got enough money to build the "
Museum of Languages" - the
misterious, romantic and sustainable building that architect Benedetta Tagliabue was projecting for the part of Can Ricart spared from the demolitions.
Los Kitasellos is the name of one of the youth groups in the outskirts of Barcelona with which anthropologist Luca Giliberti (University of Lleida – FPU-ME researcher) is doing his fieldwork. Freeing themselves from the mark ("quitarse el sello") of being different, means for many young Dominicans in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat resisting against the stigma with which they are labelled, even by the institutions - in political campaigns, constant police raids, newspapers always in search of Hispanic gangs - and convert this discrimination in an emblem of black identity. 