Educational spaces

As part of the social component that we have explored in depth in this edition, some proposals have been in dialogue with several schools so that they can remain in their surroundings and/or courtyards once the festival is over.

These interventions deseasonalise the Concéntrico proposals, as the work is extended through shared processes. In some cases they will remain until the month of August, such as the Birdhouses that facilitate nesting throughout the season, or indefinitely in the school playground in the case of the Studio Ossidiana sandboxes.

The projects are carried out with the collaboration of the art and school network PLANEA, an initiative of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, and the Government of La Rioja through the Centro Riojano de Innovación Educativa (CRIE).

The garden of intersections

Studio Ossidiana – Plaza San Bartolomé

One of these experiences is carried out with the intervention of Studio Ossidiana, which inhabits the Plaza de San Bartolomé and then moves on to the Las Gaunas school, a nursery and primary school where they are developing design processes with the pupils. During two weeks in April, the teaching staff will carry out different activities using the installation as a vehicle to talk about territory and pigments (the sandboxes incorporate different soils from La Rioja) and also about the city, as the project bases its architecture on local heritage (castles, battlements, windows…).

La rebelión del Crazy Army

Recetas Urbanas – IES Batalla de Clavijo surroundings

Along the same lines, the Recetas Urbanas project (Santiago Cirugeda and Alice Attout) in the surroundings of the IES Batalla de Clavijo has brought together all levels of high school in a collective strategy that proposes to “storm” the centre from the outside by means of walkways, Trojan horses, mobile towers, zip lines… These collective constructions will be coordinated by different technicians, teachers and advisors, who will collaborate in the process and in the assembly, including, in addition, some members of the Lakalle Association, which, although based in Vallecas, will come to collaborate in this experience. In this way, the teenagers become the main actors and propose alternative ways of using public spaces in connection with the “Batalla”.

Birdhouses Glorieta

Hollmén Reuter Sandman – Glorieta del Doctor Zubía

The Finnish architectural studio incorporates sensitivity to the environment, materials and landscape to re-inhabit La Glorieta, the city’s central park. An analysis of the site, together with species research with local ornithologists, has resulted in an intervention that incorporates 24 bird boxes to recover the birds that migrate from March onwards. The Sagasta Secondary School and its Biology students will study the most frequent species of birds and bats in the Glorieta: by means of cards on each one, observations, taking photographs, in a strategy to understand and care for the environment of the schools.

Spaces and Education

Among the various activities in the interventions and centres, we propose the Conversations on Spaces and Education, CRIE and Red Planea together with educational centres in La Rioja with:

Sofía Coca, ZEMOS98 / PLANEA, art and school network
Cristina Alba, Cotidiana SCA cooperative of architects
Alicia Bernardos, IES Menéndez Pelayo (Getafe)

Date: 27 April 2023
Time: 19:00 hours
Place: Esdir conference room