Reciclar la ecología

Abad
Plaza Inmaculada
2025

In Plaza de la Inmaculada, this intervention invites the weaving of new relationships with the non-human ecosystems inhabiting our cities, using urban design practices as a tool. The project imagines alternative ways of “being ecological” to address the environmental crisis, building narratives not centered on humans or on the utility of outcomes.

Inspired by the symbiotic relationships of living beings, the proposal creates elements that interact with existing urban objects, generating “holobionts”: hybrid systems that highlight the relational rather than the stylistic dimensions of design.

The square, the result of a mid-20th-century urban project for social housing, holds within its history the traces of those who built and first inhabited it. Today, in a context where access to housing remains a challenge —especially for young people— the project revives that memory and, together with the current neighborhood, occupies elements like streetlights, fountains, and walls to build dwellings, this time destined for sparrows, bats, cats, butterflies, and other non-human beings that also suffer from the lack of shelter and breeding spaces.

During the festival days, the square will transform into an epicenter of biodiversity, hosting activities to raise awareness of the importance of fostering interspecies relationships, alongside playful proposals that invite everyone to simply celebrate shared life.