Corteza Abierta promotes cultural emancipation in rural environments through a sound device that encourages dialogue and collective creation
Corteza Abierta
IED Madrid - Student: Markel Martín
Academic year
2024-2025
Corteza Abierta [Open Bark] is conceived as a sonic tool for the cultural emancipation of rural environments. The project proposes a new kind of cultural infrastructure for the countryside, built not on transactions but on collaboration and co-creation.
The loudspeaker, both literal and metaphorical, becomes a tool of connections – establishing dialogues that spark cultural processes in rural contexts. Using firewood as its main material, it draws a simple but powerful image: splitting a log to release hidden sounds, then amplifying them so that what was once a whisper becomes a call to the sky.
The outcome is a device that rises as a living cultural laboratory: a tower amplifying the conversations necessary for culture to grow, an acoustic totem that lifts the resonant sound of rural life above wheat and weeds.
