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09 April 2026

Love is in the air?

A themed route through Poblenou about air, dust and the right to breathe, by Olga Subirós

A*DESK and GRAF present themed routes that focus on critical thinking based on contents of the repository of A*DESK magazine, lead by the interpretation of a specialist (historian, artist, curator or critic) and relating it with the field. The routes, which are done in person, include both spaces belonging to the GRAF community and other types of places, both cultural and not, public and private, which also strengthens the discourse and artistic proposal, and makes the most out of this opportunity to learn about certain places that are normally closed or difficult to access.

Love is in the air? A route through Poblenou about air, dust and the right to breathe
is a route created and led by the architect and curator Olga Subirós

This route runs through Poblenou to read the air not as emptiness, but as political matter: a medium laden with dust, traffic, work, industrial memory and artistic practices that forces us to think about what we breathe, who can do it and how the city unequally distributes the universal right to breathe.

🗓️ April 18th at 11:00 am
📍 Meeting point: La Escocesa (C/ Pere IV, 345)

Suitable for all ages. The route will be done on foot.
Free. Register here

About Olga Subirós

Olga Subirós is a curator, architect, and exhibition designer. Her projects adopt an integrative perspective on 21st-century culture and the transformations of the digital age..
www.olgasubiros.com

Olga Subirós was resident editor in A*DESK in July 2023 with the topic The Weight of Air.

[Featured Image: Particulated Matter 10 micras The difference between them is 24 hours of air filtration in Barcelona. Photo: Gunnar Knechtel]

A*DESK is a critical platform focused on publishing, training, experimentation, communication and dissemination in relation to contemporary culture and art, which is defined by transversality. The starting point is contemporary art, because that is where we come from and this awareness allows us to go much further, to incorporate other disciplines and forms of thought in order debate issues that are relevant and urgent for understanding our present.

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