The Trail of Curiosities
IED Barcelona – Student: Bianca Giacomini
Academic year
2024/2025
A project that seeks to recover the act of walking as an aesthetic experience, designing four small spaces — named The Sculptor, The Dreamer, The Talker, and The Writer —along a path in Collserola, though which to reconnect with our nomadic roots and build a sense of community.
The pace of the modern urban world has fragmented our connection with our immediate surroundings, turning us into passive spectators of scenes rather than active participants in history. This project forces us to slow down and proposes exploring spaces for the memories that are shaped by the very act of walking along the route, and thanks to the walkers themselves.
Instead of passive movement, ‘The Trail of Curiosities’ encourages people to collect objects along the way, which are then deposited in the different spaces, contributing to the completion of the structures. In this way, during the journey, the walker not only goes from point A to point B, but also weaves a trail as they move forward that acts as a poetic reminder of their presence in the environment.
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