The Carulla Foundation opens its headquarters and expands. In Calle Almogàvers in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona, ??the new three-storey building has 1,500 m2, which will house an exhibition hall, an area for cultural creators and managers and, in the near future, an event hall.
“We are very excited – declares Marta Esteve, director of the foundation – to begin this new stage with our own space that we want to be the home of all the cultural transformers who, like us, work to improve the world through culture and the arts. “.
The new headquarters will offer a cultural coworking with 20 work tables to host transformative projects, around the foundation’s Mutare program, which develops its own methodology “to solve social challenges and have a positive impact from culture.”
The building includes a window to the rural world, with exhibitions aimed at the school public, in connection with the Espluga de Francolí museum which is now called the Earth Museum / Sustainable Rural Culture.
Likewise, it has a multipurpose room, for talks, conferences, workshops, screenings and performances, with capacity for a hundred people.
The building will also be the headquarters of Editorial Barcino, the publishing house of the Carulla Foundation that will celebrate the centenary of its creation in 2024, dedicated to Catalan classics.
“From this new space, we want to weave synergies with the most emerging talent and creative actors to collectively address the challenges of the future. We also want to value the knowledge and wisdom of the rural world to reflect on the world in which we want to live” , adds Esteve.
“That is why we open this window of the rural world in the city, to create dialogue about sustainability from the heritage and wisdom of the rural world,” he concludes.
The building, located at number 214 Almogàvers Street, was built in 1962, the work of architect José M. Segarra, author also from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Barcelona.