El Gran Textil: Cosiendo ciudades, tejiendo alimentos

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Finished 21 / 06 / 2020
Funded!
Received
€ 5.420
Minimum
€ 4.100
Optimum
€ 9.910
60 Co-financiers
Channel
  • Contributing € 10

    Microfiber

    TO PLANT SEEDS!

    This Patronage will give you some wheat seeds (from the old ones) so you can start sowing the bread with your sweat and start transforming modern cities into fields that will feed us.

    In the delivery of the seeds, we invite you to an organic breakfast (in September), where we will present the status of the project.

    > 05 Co-financiers
  • Contributing € 20

    Nylon

    COME TO THE CELEBRATION!

    This Patronage invites you to participate in the celebration of the presentation of the exhibition in November 2020, we are managing to exhibit at the Royal Artillery Factory in Seville, where we will taste agro-ecological products in an artistic environment and with a flamenco party... Olé!

    In addition, you can enjoy an organic breakfast (in September) where you will take some wheat seeds so that you can transform the territory from asphalt to bread with your own hands.

    > 10 Co-financiers
  • Contributing € 50

    Esparto

    COME TO EAT AT CASAURANTE!

    This Patronage invites you to eat at CASAURANTE, our artistic-gastronomic project that consists of recovering the idea of ​​the old "food houses". We carry out complete menus every Friday for lunch in our gastrosophical studio located in Rompemoldes, Seville.

    You can enjoy this wonderful meal in a unique space in addition to being able to attend the opening party in November 2020, the organic breakfast (in September) and a handful of wheat seeds so that you can transform the city yourself.

    > 06 Co-financiers
  • Contributing € 100

    Cotton

    YOUR NAME WILL APPEAR EMBROIDERED IN “EL GRAN TEXTIL”!

    This Patronage will give your name to a square or a street in one of the cities that appear in “El Gran Textil”, therefore, your name will appear embroidered in an art piece.

    Also, you will be able to come to CASAURANTE on a Friday at noon and enjoy a full menu in a unique space, as well as you can attend the opening party in November 2020, enjoy an organic breakfast (in September) and a handful of seeds of wheat so that it is you who turns the winters into yellow fields.

    > 06 Co-financiers
  • Contributing € 250

    Linen

    YOU ARE A PHILANTHROPIST!

    This Patronage makes your name or that of your company appear in the signature of the participants and collaborators in “El Gran Textil”.

    Take another step and in addition to philanthropists become co-owner:

    We advise you to associate with another patron and acquire part of the work and move on to the next phase.

    Also, your name will appear embroidered in a square or street of “El Gran Textil”, you can come to Friday at CASAURANTE and enjoy a full menu in a unique space, you can attend the opening party in November 2020, and enjoy the organic breakfast (in September) and a handful of wheat seeds so that you can transform the cities into fields.

    > 01 Co-financiers
  • Contributing € 500

    Silk

    YOU JUST ACQUIRED A PIECE OF ART!

    This Patronage gives you the right to be a co-owner of the work, and you will obtain a certificate issued by art sales professionals that stipulate your rights as co-owner of “El Gran Textil”.

    Your name or that of your company appears in the signature of the participants and collaborators in “El Gran Textil”.

    Also, your name will appear embroidered in a square or street of “El Gran Textil”, you can come to Friday at CASAURANTE and enjoy a full menu in a unique space, you can attend the opening party in November 2020, and enjoy the organic breakfast (in September) and a handful of wheat seeds so that you can transform the cities into fields.

    > 04 Co-financiers

About this project

LaPlasita presents a teaching innovation project: “El Gran Textil”, a 120m2 cartography of Seville and its relationship with Reims.

Needs Material Minimum Optimum
Base fabric of the cartography
“El Gran Textil” has a base fabric, where the cartography will be patterned and sewn. This fabric is special, it is flame retardant, resistant, waterproof and lightweight. Tecnodimension Hinchable SL, the company that provides us with the material has machines that draw the patterns we use as a guide for sewing. The 120m2 base is divided into 30 parts to work, these pieces will then be reassembled and reinforced throughout the perimeter, as well as the necessary traces to be exposed and hung. As its name says is “The Base”, the foundation of the work.
€ 3.600
Printing material for the 10 workshops of the 2019/20 course
For the development of the workshops in the vocational education school and the different associations, it’s necessary to print on paper the patterns in plotters. These patterns will become, in the workshops, in textile cuts with which to make the different parts of the cartography (villages, forests, roads, agricultural productive areas ...)
€ 760
Needs Infrastructure Minimum Optimum
Exhibition of “El Gran Textil” in Seville
The project will be presented through an exhibition at the Carmen Aranguren art gallery in the city of Seville during its construction on March 5 to show the "Work in progress" of the project. The process as creation material.
€ 500
Textile material for the 10 workshops of the 2019/20 course
Once we have the paper patterns, it is necessary to have textile material for the development of the workshops in the vocational education school and that the students and participants can sew and design the different parts of the cartography (villages, forests, roads, agricultural productive areas ...)
€ 950
Communication
Today, if you don't communicate, you're nobody. We need a website that allows us to communicate and explain the entire project in a detailed and interactive way. This platform will allow us to connect with more organizations in a faster and more visual way and in this way, expand and continue advancing with the project.
€ 1.500
Needs Task Minimum Optimum
Support to professionals for the construction of textiles (seamstresses and seamstresses)
Due to the size of “El Gran Textil”, a person will be hired to support and help in its construction.
€ 1.300
Teaching
In the 10 workshops that are organized, professionals from different sectors (fashion, artists, cultural managers) are being invited to give training pills for students. Guests are doing it without profit, but they are being paid for transportation.
€ 560
Research
For the artistic design of “El Gran Textil”, research is being carried out around cities and their food mode. And the metropolitan area of ​​Seville, the Commune de Reims and the historical relationship between the two territories are being investigated.
€ 740
Total € 4.100 € 9.910
Necessary
Supplemental

General information

LaPlasita through its project ComoArte builds “El Gran Textil”

ComoArte, the line of socio-cultural and educational innovation of "LaPlasita" collective, is building, together with the pattern and fashion students at the Pablo Picasso vocational education school in Seville, a 120m2 textile artistic piece: “El Gran Textil”. This work consists of a sewn cartography of the metropolitan area of Seville from a perspective of food in cities. Also, the relationship between Seville and Reims is represented.

We consider that art is a good mediator to raise awareness, educate and propose the necessary changes in our habits that help fight climate change. By building, designing, researching and in this case, sewing and weaving we will be able to influence these issues. “El Gran Textil” promotes critical thinking through activities included in teaching environments with educational objectives.

Main features and goals of the crowdfunding campaign

What is the “El Gran Textil”?

  • A cartography of the metropolis of Seville (1,133 km2) and its relationship with the city of Reims sewn with recycled fabrics on a 120m2 canvas.

  • A teaching innovation project with art as a mediator. The creation of the art piece is being carried out, from the direction of LaPLasita, through a teaching innovation project based on "Learning by doing" projects. The objectives of these workshops are to promote teamwork, creativity, critical thinking and propose new habits that help fight climate change.

  • A collective construction. It involves the middle and higher levels of the Patronage and Fashion course of the IES Pablo Picasso of Seville. Much of the piece is done through creative workshops in this vocational education school. Other teaching and social institutions are also collaborating.

  • An eutopic representation. A realizable utopia that has wondered "How to improve the diet of one million two hundred thousand people taking care of the planet?"

Where and how?

The construction of the cartography began in May 2019 and will conclude at the end of 2021 as it’s a living work in constant evolution in which the different agents and participants are designing the work. We aim to be present in the following spaces and countries:

  • March 2020: “El Gran Textil” "work in progress" will be exhibited in Seville on March 5 at the Carmen Aranguren gallery.

  • June 2020: It will be exhibited in the market of Reims (France) in honor of the shape of “El Gran Textil” that matches the window of the market.

  • November 2020: The work will be exhibited in Seville in an event organized with the City Council of Seville at the end of 2020.

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Why this is important

In the coming years, more than 70% of the world population will live in cities.

We must act and think about how cities, metropolises, and megacities will be fed while being responsible, sustainable and caring for the planet. This is ComoArte's approach and through works and socio-cultural projects, we are acting, sensitizing and proposing new eating habits and how cities can be fed.

“El Gran Textil” is the art piece with which we are acting and thinking in the metropolitan area of Seville.

One million two hundred thousand people feed in Seville and through projects of this type we can provide new solutions that improve our quality of life. “El Gran Textil”, in addition to being an artistic work, is a participatory and critical investigation of the urban and territorial landscape from the perspective of food in cities.

Impact of this project:

  • The metropolitan area of Seville is the beneficiary of this work.

  • The rulers and city councils of the more than 30 municipalities involved in the cartography with which informative conferences will be organized.

  • People from associations that are participating in the collective construction, as well as students who are collaborating in the creation, through a teaching innovation project:

    -The 50 students of the Pablo Picasso vocational education school in Seville.
    -The associations of disadvantaged neighborhoods in the city of Reims where we will work in May 2020.
    -The future participants of the cities where the project is developed.

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Team and experience

LaPlasita has been performing artistic activities and working with culture for more than 20 years. His studio founded in 1999 has two production lines, one dedicated to architecture and another to cultural projects, for this last activity the cultural association of the same name has been created.

From the cultural proposals, the ComoArte project is born, which from art and education perspective proposes new ways of approaching the territories and food. Art as a mediator goes through all projects, all actions.

These other actions have been carried out in recent years:

  • La Noche Naranja (December 2019). Promoter: Seville City Council.
  • Las Rutas de la Remezcla (April 2018). Promoter: Anthropoloos & LaPlasita.
  • El Jardín Cosmopolita (December 2018). Promoter: Nomad Garden.
  • Exhibition at La Boqueria (Market in Barcelona) (May 2018). Promoter: LaPlasita & FoodCultura.
  • Exhibition at the Valentín de Madariaga Seville Foundation (September 2017). Promoter: LaPlasita.
  • Exhibition in the Ynot Madrid gallery (February 2017). Promoter: Ynot & LaPlasita.

We have also organized creative workshops about city and food in different organizations:

  • EINA Design School of Barcelona.
  • Massana Design School of Barcelona.
  • León Ortega de Huelva School of Arts (Photography degree).
  • Joan Miró College of Palma de Mallorca.
  • Loyola University of Seville (Master of communication).
  • University of Seville (Architecture Students).
  • University of Coruña (Architecture Students).

Here you can browse through our history and projects.

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Social commitment

Sustainable Development Goals

  • Zero Hunger

    The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for development, and is central for hunger and poverty eradication.

  • Quality Education

    Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving people’s lives and sustainable development.

  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

    There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.

  • Responsible Production and Consumption

    Responsible Production and Consumption