From April 6, 2013 you can visit the ICO Museum of Madrid and until June 9, 2013 the exhibitions Spain Mon Amour Y Modern ruins that show how the Spanish landscape and architecture have changed in recent years. In some cases for the better, and sadly in others creating a landscape that can be described as shameful. The exhibition and the subsequent children's workshop, proposes to the children that reflect on the development of urban planning and architecture in Spain during the last decade.
In Spain mon amour You can take a tour of fifteen works of five Spanish studios through photographs and models presented to the public by architecture students. For example, we stopped at the work of Villa Romana La Olmeda in which you can see how a space has been created to enjoy the Roman ruins. The work has already been visited, since 2009, by 326,000 visitors and the students showed us the model in which you could see the central courtyard of the house, the hot spring area, the lounges and the rest rooms of its inhabitants. The other exhibition Modern ruins It is a photographic project of Julia Schulz-Dornburg which allows us to explore urban projects that never became inhabited and that have become abandoned spaces affected by real estate speculation.
After a dynamic visit through the rooms of the museum, where we could see the successes and errors of Spanish architecture in recent years, the subsequent workshop transformed each family into an architectural studio in which, as a game, we had to plan an urban project taking into account the needs of the people who would occupy the space.
In our case, my daughter and I decided to have fun for a while and give the play a spectacular tone. Thus we recreate a Urbanization project in the Rings of Saturn with spaceships, golf courses, berths for spaceships, beach bars, casinos, bicycle lanes and even dangers because in winter the aliens attack.
At the end of the workshop we took a magnificent teaching notebook edited on the occasion of the exhibition and that the child took to school to share with her classmates as well.
The activity, which was as usual, perfectly organized by Talking in Art is held at the ICO Museum, on Zorrilla Street, 3. It is held on Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 to 13:00 and the dates of the activity are April 6 to June 9, 2013. The activity is free upon registration for children between 6 and 12 years old. In our group we were accompanied by Carmen and Nacho They had a great time because of the great participation of the children. And it seems to me that this exposure to children encourages them to participate because they understand perfectly, and they explained it, that the houses built and abandoned are a ruin, which have led us to the current crisis, which can be considered as wanting to scam to the people and that the publicity that was generated to sell them was very false.
